What a day!  So much went on and it's late, but I have to get you some words.  Howard Blitz had an emergency of some kind and had to fly home this morning - I hope everything's alright.  He wouldn't say what the matter was, so I just carried on.

Sylvia had her day at the table without Howard and I there, and I have no idea what went on or how she voted (we are of opposite opinions quite often).  I spent the morning with Jay going over our report after Bob went over it and pointed some things out.  When we finally got done with it, it took about an hour or so for it to show up on the docket.  (I might have pissed off some people, but when we were debating the content of the report I REFUSED to allow ANY 'idea' or 'feeling' that something was wrong or unjust - IF THEY COULDN'T CITE THE PART OF THE CONSTITUTION THAT WAS VIOLATED.  It was even more than that because since we were holding the President to "take care that the laws are faithfully executed" that included the USC and the CFR - and they still couldn't cite that - so they walked away.  The document we produced was SO TIGHT, that it took EIGHT FUCKING MINUTES from the time 1) our Chairman presented our report, 2) one Delegate rose to attempt to amend it and didn't even get a second, 3) I was standing first in line already so I could 'Call the Question", and it passed UNANIMOUSLY!!!  I said loudly "Now THAT'S how it's DONE!"  You should have seen Jay - he's the tall drink of water with the black cowboy hat - He had such a grin you'da thought he had a canary in his maw!

At lunch, I caught President Badnarik and asked him if there were any Committees that hadn't completed their report, and that I was willing to assist in whatever capacity I was needed.  He said yes, that the "Property Clauses" Committee was still on their first draft, but he didn't know where they Met.  He told me who the Chairman was, and I caught him before I left the dining room. 

After dinner, the delegates went back to the floor, and I went to go look for the "Property Clause" Committee.  They were right where the Chairman said.  I sat down and exchanged some plesantries, and started looking at what they had produced.  There was a lot of taking phrases or even paragraphs out of agenda 21 pamphlets, and inserting them into the Committee report.  I made some suggestions, but they acted like it was good enough the way it was, and that they were working.  So what I did was state that the map Michael Shaw showed us at the Presentation on Property Clause was scary enough to make the point.  The Chairman produced a copy of the Agenda 21 pamphlet and showed me the same chart, and I said "I'll see what I can do."

I took it into the Computer Center and tried one of their copiers, and it looked like crap.  I ran back to the Committee, and got my bag and my laptop, and headed back to the Center.  I set up may laptop, and then set up my Canon Video/Photo camera.  With one leg extended and lodged into the hole you put the computer wire, I had the camera pointed to the desk, and took a photo without the Legend and only the map.  I then took another with the references to the other Speaker we heard - Michael Coffman - printed below the map.  

The computers the hotel owns and provides for guest use are dinosaurs, and I had found out with the first Committee I had to save my documents in windows 97-2003 because they won't recognize anything created with anything newer, so, I imported the pics onto my laptop, and e-mailed them to myself - along with the photo of the same chart I took during the Presentation.  I was just about to hit print when Mr. Chairman wheels around the corner and asked me if I had come up with anything yet (this was about 20 minutes later I approximate).  I told him "what did you expect?  That I'd come back with NOTHING!?!  He departed, and by the time I had printed out a few copies, he rounds the corner again with two people in tow (presumedly to inspect my work).  I said they were done and lets go back to where we were sitting.  When I laid these fine copies they were blown away!  Heh heh, Mission Accomplished.

Stupid me - now it's 3:50 a.m. and I HAVE to crash.

Working for you, 

Ed