Dallas for a Day

My day yesterday started at 4:30 am, after getting home at midnight from the Rolling Stones concert. Off to SFO to fly to Dallas for work. I was at the Four Seasons all day in Irving Texas, a very nice hotel. On my way there my cabbie asked me a loaded question, "do people in California hate George Bush?" I started to explain how the state should be broken into 3 states and how every county is different. After that I said some comment about the war, basically we are there now and it makes no sense to bail until the job is done. This guy could not agree more. he turns around and continues to tell me how his uncle, his 2nd cousin, and brother are all high ranking officials in the new Iraqi government. "No lie I tell you," he says. He is Kurdish and tells me that he is so happy that is homeland is liberated. He says "the press is so negative, and not reflective of the truth." He told me that his relatives were at the whitehouse last week and that there is a big report due out on how most of Iraq and the Kurds feel about their freedom. We'll see if the press picks it up.

After a long day of talking to prospects and customers Brian (another SE that I work with) headed for the Dallas Airport. We took off at 10 pm CST, and landed at 11:45 PST. I slept for most of the flight. I got home about 1:30 and hit the pillow. Jodi woke up and told me how Tosca caught a mouse and brought it into the house all proud. Turns out house cat didn't want to kill the mouse, it just wanted to play with it in a more comfortable environment, otherwise know as our house. The mouse eventually hopped down all 20 stairs and climbed into a small hole in the wall by the front door..."SweeeeeeeeeeT!"
The cats slept off the catch over night and fished that sucker out of the wall first thing. 7 am, Jodi, "Todd, the cats have the mouse again and he's not dead yet." Todd, (head still in the pillow) "Baby, take care of it." Jodi without hesitation grabbed the mouse with a towel and released it. I have to say, I'm real impressed. Jodi = Plus 2 points.