Where Sam doesn't play anymore ...Rick's Cafe Americain

Seriously, I’ve been in the Bay Area for a week, interviewing for a new job and looking for a new home.

Ilse and I had success on the home front (pun intended), and I think the interviews went well.  I have my favorites, and if I get offers from both of them, it will be a tough choice.

In other news, I caught a bit of John Kerry‘s appearance on Meet the Press this weekend.  Although I thought he was too quick to back away from taking strong positions (a common fault among Democratic candidates, who tend to have this odd notion that part of leading a democracy is building consensus and that part of representing a superpower is diplomacy), l liked what he had to say.  Although I am (of course) an ABB guy, I think I may be becoming pro-Kerry.

Also, I read a front page artlicle in the Wall Street Journal (unfortunately I am not a subscriber and could not find it elsewhere online) a couple of days ago that pretty accurately described how the Bushies’ lack of planning and failure to act intelligently in the first days/months of the invasion of Iraq led to the setbacks (it is virtually impossible to find images of the burned bodies on the internet—why?) our troops are now facing.

This just made me angry (TAKE SOME FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY, YOU SMUG LITTLE FUCKER!), but this cheered me up.  Something happened with the hand histories I tried to download, so I can’t offer a detailed write-up, but I will say I got a few strings of really good cards, and that made all the difference.

Anyway, back to the real world.