God bless the morning laptop. It’s the train ride. We are exhausted. Some indie rocker with the good hair just moved so he can face forward. I’m reading wired news. i may go to sleep. i may work on the gameboy sequencer. i would love to get the drum machine working by the end of the day. that’s a reasonable goal. saw some ai thing with alan alda lst night. cs people relly can’t do graphics to save their lives. i want to finish the dreaming jewels/the synthetic man so i never have to read anything by sturgeon again. boy, was that not for me. those were different times. like stranger in a strange land. of course i watched the red sox last night. good for them, at least they made it close.

i haven’t maid a plug nickel off the google ads. i want to get photos up. more photos. listening to neil young tonight’s the night. working hard. listening to you are the quarry. some good song’s on that. haven’t had lunch yet. so hungry. working for some trade union busters or something. awful long day.

i’m working between different monitor speakers:

More from the AFL-CIO website:

10. OVERTIME—H.R. 2660—In March 2003, the Bush administration announced a plan to make changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act that could eliminate overtime pay eligibility for 8 million or more workers. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) offered an amendment to the FY Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill to guarantee workers’ overtime pay eligibility by prohibiting the U.S. Department of Labor from using funds to promulgate or implement any regulation that would take away overtime protection from workers who currently qualify. The amendment passed on Sept. 10, 2003, 54–45: Y=R; N=W (R: 6–44; D: 47–1; I: 1–0)

Can you believe it? So the Republicans say “we’re going to take away overtime pay for these workers” and the democrats counter by saying “ok, just not the ones who already have it.” what is that? this party sucks.

how about responding in kind, as in, “why are you depriving any workers of overtime pay?”

This is from the ALF-CIO website:

1. BUDGET—S. Con. Res. 95—The fiscal year (FY) 2004 House budget resolution—designed by Republican leaders to reflect the Bush administration’s priorities—cut domestic programs by more than $500 billion to make room for President George W. Bush’s $726 billion tax cut aimed mostly at the wealthy (including $364 billion for the corporate dividend tax cut). The budget resolution cut funding for all nondefense programs (including all education, job training and health care programs) by $244 billion over the next 10 years and cut an additional $265 billion in mandatory spending for Medicaid, veteran’s benefits and pensions and benefits for federal employees and railroad employees. The resolution included no funds to help states address their financial crises and inadequate funds for infrastructure investments that can create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, schools and water, sewer and transportation systems. Although the allotted time for a vote on the budget resolution had expired, Republican leaders held the vote open and strong-armed several Republicans lawmakers who had voted against the budget resolution with appeals to party loyalty to switch their votes. The resolution passed March 21, 2003, 215–212: Y=W; N=R (R: 214–12; D: 1–199; I: 0–1)

So they have laptop cozies. Here are some: * FULL LAPTOP CROCHETICATION * Not impressed. has that worn beta band hippy thing about it. uggh. I’m trying to find one that has that cool mattress-padded look to it. the usb port on my laptop is dead.