Persistent Illusion is back to being an Insignificant Microbe in the TTLB Ecosystem. Ah well. And to think we made it all the way up to Wiggly Worm before sliding back down the evolutionary ladder.

It’s OK. I like it this way.

In the wee hours of the morning, an underground fire in downtown Baltimore knocked out my site host. Their NOC was OK. Power was lost, and the UPSs would only take the servers so far before everything needed to be shut down. More seriously, their connections to the backbone were interrupted when all of the phone companies also lost power. We’re finally back up about an hour ago. What a mess! I’ve seen a bunch of boards where customers are ready to jump because of this. I’m staying where I am. My host has been great and I have no complaints. This was something totally out of their hands that could not be planned for. I’m glad it came back as soon as it did. My last host had their backbone running under the World Trade Center. They never came back, as far as I know.

The group Texans For Truth is offering a $50,000 reward to anyone who can provide proof whether George W. Bush performed duties in the Air National Guard between May, 1972, and May, 1973, at Dannelly Air Nation Guard Base in Alabama. I wonder if there will be any takers?

In other news Dubya is questioning the veracity of the CBS documents. But, oddly enough, nobody in the Bush Administration is saying where Dubya actually was, what he was doing, why he refused to report for his physical, or whether or not he was still qualified to fly a plane.

Why is that, do you think?

I have a cold, and I’m not happy about it. I take getting sick very personally.

There’s no doubt… I am easily amused! Persistent Illusion has crawled its way up to “Multicellular Organism” in the TTLB Blobosphere Ecosystem. And we’d like to thank everyone who helped us evolved from “Insignificant Microbe.”