listen...

i don't know if this guy al-baghdadi ever existed or if he was like big brother to the islamists or what. i mean, i don't know if they killed bin laden when they said they did, or if they even killed him at all.

i do know this: when they push something like this down, it signals they're changing something.

so, the facts on the ground are never clear, it is true, and there's no use in trying to figure out specifics around something that might have only ever existed in fiction. but, when these figureheads die, this thing we call al qaeda - whatever kind of cia-saudi joint operation that it actually is - tends to shift.

it seems like they're broadly abandoning syria to the syrians and the turks and the russians. maybe not all of it. but, mostly.

we'll see what happens, but the experts always said that the best way to beat isis was to pull funding.

so, i've been awake, at least - i've napped briefly a few times, but i've been awake since last night.

and, i've made it up until the end of nov 20, 2013 - not as much as i'd hoped, but a fair amount, nonetheless.

the politics archive is at 225 pages and counting, and will probably be over 300 pages. there's no single component to this.

the music file is at 85 pages and will certainly be over 100. the dominant component is bandcamp links.

the deathtokoalas document is also at 85 pages, and will also be around 100 pages. there's no dominant component here either, but it's a subset of the politics site.

the heat is now on, and the nature of the smell has shifted to burning gas, but the nature of the issue hasn't altered. i appreciate the heat, and the totality of it might be less, but i still need a plumber.

and, whether it's actually marijuana or not (i think it is), i'm more and more convinced that the smoky smell is the same smell that i smelled on him yesterday. it's him, one way or the other. - if it's pot or gas or meth or whatever else.

i haven't eaten since yesterday, either, so it's time to stop and do it. and, we'll see if this is a blip or if i'm going into the manic phase. i want some very long days, right now. if i can stay straight edge for a bit, hopefully i can have a long november in terms of being awake 22 hours a day for the whole month. i'm tired of these sleepy days...

so, eggs it is. let's get cracking...