Enjoying my FIFTH day off work this month! I have worked 26 days this month and it sucks big time! My mentality would be completely different if I were working for a Big 4 though. Oh well, can't change what life throws at you.

Watching Father of the Bride right now on TBS to get away from war coverage. There's nothing on afterwards so I'll probably switch to war coverage again but I need breaks here and there. Everyone has their own opinions on the war but this pretty much sums it up for me - Why We Must Fight � and Now!. That link is about 10 days old so it might not work soon but the jist of it is:

In 1998 then-President Bill Clinton stated: "What if he [Saddam] fails to comply [with disarmament] and we fail to act? He will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then go right on building up his arsenal. Someday, someway, I guarantee you, he'll use that arsenal." Last year, former Vice President Al Gore stated, "[W]e know that he [Saddam] has stored away secret supplies of biological weapons and chemical weapons throughout his country."

It is not President Bush who woke up one day to discover that Saddam was making and harvesting weapons of mass destruction. Yet it is Bush who is blamed for doing something about it. Saddam may be mad, but he is not a scientist. He does not collect chemical and biological weapons for mere pleasure and intrigue. Just ask the survivors of Halabja. So when Saddam acts, it will be Bush and America who are blamed for inaction, for appeasement. We will be liable for such blame because we are the only ones who can do something about it.

Where are all those people who blamed Bush for not doing enough to prevent September 11th? It's a no win situation either way whatever he does and he and his well-educated Cabinet (I'm sure you've seen the email (middle of the post) about who's smarter, Hollywood celebs or Bush and his Cabinet) think they're doing the right thing - they get intelligence reports every day and they know a lot more than they can tell us.

On to a less controversial topic - everyone loves Coach John Wooden, not just the UCLA community. He won us 10 basketball championships in 12 years and every UCLA coach since has had the unreal expectation to live up to that. I read this article The Wisdom of John Wooden and it almost made me cry cause I admire the guy so much. Anything can make me cry these days but it just meant a lot to me. I bought his book back when I was in college and he autographed it for me but I never picked it up and started reading it. I should though - his Pyramid of Success might give me the meaning of life.