Does Jordan have Smees?

.1. L & R are safe in Jordan. R was at a hotel next to one of those where some asshole exploded; L had picked her up not 10 minutes earlier.

We're still waiting to receive a complete list of all those injured and those killed.

And on two lighter notes...because there's always at least one lighter note...

.2. Seated in a meeting today, one of the gentlemen said "...its the Smees that run those meetings..." and I thought: "Smees? Are those, like, little people? Like the Gnomes of this Century?"

Turned out he was talking about System Management Experts. SMEs.

.3. The driver I had this morning was a man who'd driven me before. He was trying to convince me of this and I honestly could not remember...and then I decided that this comment was appropriate:
"You weren't bald then, were you?"

Erm. Naturally, he hesitated before confirming that he'd indeed been bald for the last 11 years.

You know, it could have been much worse. I could have said something equally stellar like: "You weren't a fatso then, were you?"

I really need to get it together.

.4. Gravol: Patience in a pill.
Neo Citran: Potentially, the date rape drug.