View From the Bushes

Most of my time is being spent preparing for the family reunion I'm headed to on Saturday. Ideally it wouldn't take that much but There's always stuff that needs to tied up at work before I can leave, plus there are lots of things I'm trying to wrap up with DireKobold before I leave. The big deadline I need to meet is for submitting DireKobold to the ENnies which I should be doing as soon as I finish this. Of course the big thing that makes the reunion complicated are the fact that we have kids...

Normally a 11 hour drive would be no big deal, but when you toss kids into the mix the 11 hour drive turns into a 14 hour drive and the general difficulty increases by several orders of magnitude. Instead of a nice little jaunt up to Oregon it's an expedition reminiscent of Lewis and Clark with issues of logistics, pacifying the natives and just surviving long enough to see home again. Wish me luck...

In other news it looks like the FTC is finally going to review the current process for issuing patents. I for one think that it's long over due. I also came across another article which speaks to the difficult decisions involved with voting in general and third party voting in particular. In any case I should warp this up so that I can finish the rest of my to-do list before I go to bed.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross