The last normal Sunday of 2006

It's Christmas Eve next week, New Year's Eve in 2 weeks. It won't be a lazy Sunday again until 2007. Christ, how can it be almost 2007?! Wasn't Reagan just in office? Anyway, i'm sitting here oddly transfixed by POINT BREAK...well, not that odd, I guess...CA locations and good action scenes. Took a long while for me to get going today...was just flat out tired. But eventually, wild productivity took hold, and many "career things" were perused and sorted through. Riveted to the TV for the "Mount Hood Search"...3 climbers missing more than a week. Well, one's been found dead, the other 2 still missing. Listen, I don't mean to sound harsh...but why the fuck are you hiking Oregon's tallest mountain in mid-December? How about, oh, mid July? You know, when it's not zero degrees and a blizzard. Then there's the issue of all the other people now risking THEIR lives to rescue YOU. I'm just not in the media-spawned "awwwwwww, isn't that a shame?" camp on this matter. This isn't a natural disaster...these 3 men CHOSE to put themselves in this situation. And now the entire country is supposed to be riveted to the search for THREE men? Hmm, though I did say I WAS riveted...but only because it was the only thing ON the news networks all day. I'm well aware, at least, of the media's blowing this totally out of proportion, complete with demonstrations on how to build a snow cave. Yes, i'll make use of that in Hoboken next time there's a blizzard. For Gary, though, a good Sunday. Thank you, Lord, for this day.