Can you hear me now? Well, of course you can - I now have my own cell phone. :)

It's a pretty sweet-ass phone, too...a Motorola V551, which doesn't mean anything if you don't know what one looks like. Look it up. It's got a speakerphone, voice-dialing, color screen, clam-shell design (flip phone, for you non-technical types), external BLUE display caller ID/call waiting, and...a video camera/digital camera. Plus, it's blue tooth capable and has mp3 ring tone features. Can you tell I love my phone yet?

Anyway...I want to re-state my congratulations to Question (Campo) on his fantastic new job. I absolutely LOVE it when people around me succeed and achieve their goals. It just makes me happy. (Because, after all, I'm such a dick.)

Speaking of reeking of success, Heather is nearing the start of her pursuit of that Masters degree. I'm so damn proud of that girl; not only is she THE best teacher to ever come down the pipe, now she's going to be THE best counselor, too.

There's also success on my end, in the form of doing quality work at my job, but I shant be a braggart and toot my own horn today.

In political news, the Iraqi government is now calling for the U.S. to lay down a schedule for withdrawal from Iraq. (Taugh, taugh, Bush!) Apparently, the government there is of the opinion that the insurgents have a "legitimate right" of resistance to the U.S. "freedom" campaign (because, really, how is blowing up someone's house and way of life and walking casually away promoting any kind of freedom???), and shouldn't be labeled as terrorists if they're only attacking U.S. forces. So, now half of our country's citizens - the SMART half - want out of this thing, the rest of the free world wants us to stop, and the Iraqi people want us out of this thing. The tide is turning, and I'm thrilled!

Quilled Tunes: "Drown" - Gravity Kills