Update: a quiet afternoon at home?

The flower_cat has finally found something (prednisone) that works for her post-nasal drip, so I've actually two consecutive full nights of sleep now. I'm still recovering, aparently; I've found myself getting sleepy around 10:30 or 11pm this week.

The flower_cat and chaoswolf are off at an SCA revel; I wasn't particularly interested and Emmy wasn't at all interested. Rather than take her out to see The Cat in the Hat, which I'm not interested in, we went out and bought her a new DVD (What a Girl Wants) which she is watching now. Happy kid, and I got to spend some time chatting with her in the car.

Old curmudgeon that I am, I tend not to spend enough time with my family.

More entertaining than fiction

Every once in a while reality comes up with something that's so weird you know it couldn't possibly have been made up. For some time now, a large fraction of my entertainment reading has been coming from Groklaw -- Pamela Jones' blog about the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit and related matters. PJ's writing is excellent, the comments are intelligent, she has complete copies of all court filings and transcripts (many of which are amusing in their own right), and the schadenfreude is beyond compare.

It's sort of like watching a slow motion trainwreck in a movie, when you know that the villain and his cronies are on the train. You watch the hero (last seen in a sticky situation involving a bridge and some dynamite) jump out of the bushes, throw the switch, jam a two-by-four in it, and untie the girl. They share a good pull of something bracing from his hip flask as the film cuts to the look on the villain's face as he slowly begins to realize that, with the switch thrown, the train is now headed straight for the bridge he just blew up.

It's too early to roll the credits -- the villain may still have a few more tricks up his sleeve -- but so far it looks very much as though good will triumph.

Perhaps more to the point, this seems to be the scene in the courtroom drama where the high-priced lawyer starts to realize that his client's evidence may be a lot shakier than he'd been led to believe, but they're both in it too deep to stop.

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At this point the question appears to be, not whether SCO will win or lose, but whether their execs and their lawyers will manage to stay out of jail.