10:52 CDT
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It took me 94 minutes to reach work this morning. I think that it's 
safe to say that this will be my new normal travel time. It sucks, but 
it still beats being unemployed. 

I did see in the news that country artist John Anderson has died at 
71. I'm pretty sure that Paul will be calling up what few John 
Anderson songs we know for Saturday's gig. 

I read an article about a bit of journalistic advice from retiring CNN 
journalist Christiane Amanpour: "Be truthful, not neutral." I get the 
feeling that she was speaking to other journalists in mainstream 
corporate media. I've seen too many instances of mainstream journalism 
bending over backwards in trying to give false equivalence to all 
parties in a story. Just give me the damned truth already!

Nothing is scheduled for the lab today. That is a good thing for me. 
That just reduces the chance of encountering any possible drama from 
faculty or students. I'm a firm believer in the stance that those in 
IT support should be invisible. If you are visible, that usually means 
that the shit has hit the fan. That is NOT a good thing. A production 
environment needs to run in a smooth fashion, while minimizing any 
surprises. End users just want stuff to work.