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i am now a week into my long vacation and just now starting to feel like a human being again. i really didn't know just how burnt out i was until i got out from under it. but after a week of time off, my real vacation is just now beginning. christmas shopping and the bulk of my chores are all but complete and i am ready to do a whole lot of nothing. i talked big about all of this stuff that i wanted to do around the house and in the yard, but in reality, i doubt that much will get done, and if any of it does get done, it will be after melissa and i get back from texas.

one of the more intersting parts of being off of work the last couple of weeks is how much news i get to watch. a couple of weeks ago, we got the tv in the office working. so i find myself sitting at my desk messing around on the internet watching the news an awful lot. so i channel-surf the cable news networks getting intersting spins on what is going on.

i watch MSNBC more than the others. i cannot stomach Fox News, a little too much sensationalism in its coverage. i like the evening shows on MSNBC. countdown is amusing, and i find it interesting to get my daily recommended allowance of the conservative agenda from joe scarborough. and it has been a busy week for news with the capture of sadam and the media circus what is the michael jackson thing.

and the coverage of sadam has led me to wonder about my support of the death penalty. as it is, i am not sure that i would give my normal support to the death penalty for this case. not that i don't think that he deserves nothing more than death for his actions, but that i am not sure if that will allow for a clean break and new start for the region. of course, this doesn't even begin to cover my opinions over if we should or should not have been over there in the first place, as that is another matter altogether.