nothing says merry christmas like a black eye

I had a nice endo during the ride today.

It's about time.

WASHINGTON, DC—Plagued by late fees, high interest rates, and harassing creditors, the U.S. took out a debt-consolidation loan Monday, combining the nation's $6.1 trillion debt into a single, easy monthly payment.

"My fellow Americans, we have just taken the first step toward regaining control of our finances," said President Bush at a press conference. "Thanks to a joint arrangement between the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, and E-Z Debt Services of Baltimore, we are finally on our way to freedom from debt."

As of press time, the national debt stands at $6,144,393,982,061.52.

Under the terms of the consolidation, E-Z Debt Services will repay the nation's estimated 45,000 creditors, a majority of whom are foreign investors, insurance companies, banks, and other privately held entities. In return, the U.S will make a single monthly payment of $9.26 billion, adjusted for inflation, to E-Z Debt every month for the next 70 years.

(reprinted without permission from the onion)
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/u_s_takes_out_debt_consolidation

It is nice to be recognized

Um, I work with computers.

hooray for floors

Starting to look like an apartment, right?

More photos here.

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And Polo said:

The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The seconds is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

- Calvino

Bathroom preview

it was a little late, so we didn't clean up in preparation for the photo shoot. But you get the idea.

Here's the rest of the photos:

http://www.crowleigh.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=50&page=1