Going to Portland

Just bought a plane ticket for the return trip a few minutes ago. Driving up there on the night of Thursday the 24th of January, and arriving sometime Friday the 25th (since it's just me, I'll likely stop to sleep somewhere along the way). Drop my car off in Portland, hang out for a couple of days, then fly back Sunday evening. Should be fun.
Anyone live between San Francisco and Portland and want a ride up?

That's the weekend after next. Next weekend, I'm gonna head downtown to a big anti-war protest and check it out. Maybe chant a few slogans, take a few pictures of cops, add (1) to the numbers in the crowd. Fun fun. Wish I'd noticed what time they were going to start. They put up signs to announce it, but they keep getting torn down for some reason...

And this afternoon, after my meetings, I'm spending in Rational's on-line course, learning about Use Cases and modeling with UML, and desperately trying to stay awake...

White house email is working again

I'm not quite sure when they fixed it. It was down for at least a few months after he took office, starting the day to took office, but I haven't tried it recently until today. Standard form letter from the autoresponder, pretty much the same one that Clinton used, with the addition of the "presidential greeting" option. I'd never heard of this,
apparently, there's a whole office in the White House devoted to mailing out letters for special occasions, signed by the President Himself. Interestingly, they included a Bar Mitzvah "or equivalent occasion" as one of the events you can get a Presidential Greeting for. From what I understand of the Bar Mitvah, I suppose the closest thelemic equivalent would be a IInd degree initiation. I think it would be kinda cool to get President Bush to sign a note congratulating someone for that.

Anyway, here's the reply:
( Text of email autoreply )

All that, and all I was doing was signing him up to win a free cruise....