Weekends seem to be getting shorter for some reason. Half the weekend is already gone and I have a ton of stuff to try and get done before the work week starts yet again. My poor baby boy has been sick again. He’s vomitted, seemingly randomly, twice now in as many days. (You’ve never lived until your child vomits all over himself and the carseat.) I know he hates it. There’s a specific cry that he makes before the heave-ho comes and I know that cry very well now. I pick him up to soothe him and within the next few seconds usually find myself drenched. I don’t mind it though and only wish I could do more to keep him calm. Still, he’s also had a low grade fever these past two days. Tylenol seems to keep it at bay but if it continues tomorrow we’ll probably head to the pediatrician. Given that he’s in daycare again (and started only recently) I assumed we’d have a bout of frequent illnesses to contend with as his immune system got used to having friends again. Better now than when the baby comes and I’m curious as to if there’ll be any transferrance though (obviously I hope it’ll be very little).

Work on the new blog theme is going well and I hope to have the new site in place by SXSWi. My launch party will be buying a round of beers for my friends at some point during the conference (as that the proper term for it?). Of course, this will notify all 2 of the readers who even read this thing. It’s funny, I bookmarked it for Magda and she still hasn’t read my latest entries (if she’s reading this finally, she’s definitely laughing now). I’ve actually been trying to get her to co-blog with me. I’d be curious to see how that kind of experiment would work out. Or maybe I’ll just get her own blog set up at some point here.

I’m still twittering. I really love micro-blogging and I think there’s a lot of room for some cool stuff to happen in this space. I was thinking about a twitter type way to keep track of stuff at work. Instead of dealing with timesheets or index cards (which I love but can be a hassle on the days where I end up context switching a lot) you could have a twitter-like widget that posts your context switches. You could capture all the information you need in a few short words (hell, just act like your tagging) and you’d have the time recorded. It’s not fancy or even novel but I have a feeling something like that would work. Is there anything out there that does this now?

My fucking garbage disposal is on the fritz again and this time the reset button didn’t fix it. MF.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel, House Democratic Caucus chairman, had written Gonzales two letters suggesting that he name Carol Lam, fired as U.S. attorney in San Diego, as an outside counsel to continue her pursuit of the Duke Cunningham case. Asked by Melissa Charbonneau of the Christian Broadcasting Network about this column’s report that Gonzales did not respond, Gonzales said: “I think that the American people lose if I spend all my time worrying about congressional requests for information, if I spend all my time responding to subpoenas.”

TPMMuckraker on a new Bob Novak column citing the above.

My first reaction to this was in the ‘WTF?!?!?’ category but that just doesn’t do any of this justice (ahem). Here’s the problem that Mr. Gonzales has. He is not above the law and he is certainly not above a subpoena from the United States Congress. Even on this account his boss could not save his ass. My guess is that if Gonzales continues to head in this direction that we are going to see an interesting confrontation (that may or may not take place regardless of this particular snub) and possibly that constitutional crises (that we are already in but people think is still coming) will reach critical mass. The bottom line is that the justice department has some serious problems. We know all too well that given Gonzales’ previous testimony that he is simply…not suited? ill-equipped? No, he’s a smart guy I think but there’s something about the willingness to use his interpretation of things to destroy our freedoms and liberties (and with such ease) that makes me nervous about our ability to right the ship once he’s gone.

I hope after this our congressional leaders will pin his ass to a chair in front of a committee, make him raise his right hand and explain why he thinks he doesn’t need to respond to them…