zzz. zzz?

it is that boring week between christmas and new year's when no one is doing anything. and no one is in the office. i believe, if nothing else, i shall take a half-day on friday.

on the other hand, it's only boring here. halfway round the world, there are (at last count) probably 100,000 people dead or dying. that's an amazingly depressing number. of course, we can help, but donating a few dollars or some clothes still doesn't help your mind wrap itself around the whole thing.

i wonder if anyone has yet started a donation fund for creating a tracking system, similar to what the u.s., japan, australia and other maintain in the pacific ocean. we can help now, but even better, we can help stop it from happening again.