Ok, so I'm back. The newest member of the family has decided to let his parents sleep for a few hours straight per night. Not too bad. It's amazing what a difference 4 straight hours of sleep can do for you. Still tired but spirits high. Having a productive day today. I've finished 4 different mappings that were peer-reviewed and approved for migration! I know this sounds like nothing but it's a big deal b/c it's taken me forever to get to this point for various and sundried reasons. (I won't bore you with the details)

Interesting item from yesterday's Best of the Web (www.opinionjournal.com)

One of These Things Does Not Belong
Here's interesting crop of headlines from budget stories yesterday:

*** QUOTE ***

"CBO Changes Budget Forecast Back to Black"-- Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,47243,00.html

"Congressional Analysts See Surplus"-- ABC News http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20020306_296.html

"CBO Predicts Budget Surpluses"-- MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/720099.asp

"CBO: Bush Budget Would Lead to Bigger Deficits"-- CNN http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/03/06/congress.budget.ap/index.html

*** END QUOTE ***


Hmm.....now I'm no rocket scientist but I surmise that the last one has a bit of a different tilt than the other three. Media bias? Hogwash!

nb: for some reason I am completely unable to access any part or parcel of the opinionjournal.com URL. No Peggy Noonan, no Pete DuPont (that's a sore spot as he was former governor of the First State). Have to figure out why.

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