alexpgp | Making do...

After falling asleep around 5 am, I woke again at 7 (and 7:05, and 7:10, and... you get the picture), and made do with a 40-minute nap in the afternoon, after doing the usual morning jig at the store.

Anyway, by the time I started work on the translation, it was almost 4 pm, which is totally unacceptable. I managed to finish the assignment (and take a look at a new one that came in over the transom early this afternoon), even after taking time out to have dinner with the kids over here (we had the rib roast that I bought a couple of months ago, and it was good!). The problem is, that I'm way too tired right now to review the translation, so I guess I'll do that tomorrow morning and go to the store late.

* * *There's an interesting essay over at Tech Central Station by one Lee Harris titled Our World Historical Gamble. There is a lot of meat, there, and it offers an explanation for circumstances I've been wondering about for a while.

Specifically, I've been thinking for some time now that between the emergence of extranational groups and the ease with which such groups can be mobilized and how even ordinary materials can be used for destructive purposes (not to mention the more difficult-to-manufacture yet attainable Really Bad Stuff™), all the old rules of engagement that involve governments and states and armies can pretty much be consigned to the trash heap of history. How does one prosecute a war on terror?

Harris' essay is not the final word on the subject, but it provides adequate food for thought.

Cheers...