Finance Unless you've been living under a rock today, you know the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 777 points after the house failed to pass the bailout bill as written. Considering the last time we were graced with swift reactive governance we got the USA Patriot Act, I could stand to see a few more days of the markets down 7% if that's what the deliberative process of the republic requires. I know they're not going to get this right per se but at least they can get it less wrong than an unsupervised playground of 700 billion tax dollars for folks who have shown a remarkable lack of ability to grasp basic ledger sheets. Personally, I "lost" about $1,700 today in my retirement, but I have forty years to get it back so I'm not all that worried.

Birthday Today I took off from work for my birthday. My company gives it out as a recognized holiday. I slept until 14:30, then ate and surfed the web until it was time to enjoy a nice chicken and pasta dish and a brownie sundae down in Fells Point. I feel very relaxed after what was a pretty hectic weekend. Tomorrow I put my nose back down to the grindstone.

Kitten Blogging Dot loves apples and will run from whatever room she is in to where I am if she hears me bite into one. Then she'll sit on my lap until I bite her off a piece and then eat it out of my hand. I checked everywhere I could on the Internet and nobody says that they are bad for her, so finally we have something we can share. She also has no idea what a mirror is, and has been attacking her reflection in both my office and the bedroom with alarming regularity.

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