May 2006 Archives

Suppose someone from work sent me an email that says, "See you next Tuesday!"

He probably didn't mean it like that. Did he?

I like having four seasons and all, but the extremes kill me. Kee-rist.

I just spent 20 minutes digging through my storage unit to find the Twindow fan (*hawesome*) to put in the bedroom. Naturally, it was underneath the Xmas trees and ornaments (and a bajillion empty boxes).

I broke down and turned the a/c on, too. Why am I depriving myself? The only reason would be because I'm cheap. Why the fuck do I care about a few dollars on my (already really low) electric bill when I'm about to spend those few dollars on an iced chai just so I can sit somewhere else with a/c?

Fly Girl had all sorts of sob stories from last summer in her un-air-conditioned apartment that involved a ceiling fan, a spray bottle, abject misery, and feeling sorry for herself. My place last summer wasn't much better. My roommates had window units in their rooms. Their rooms were far away from mine. I decided to wait until it was already hot to go a/c shopping and of course there were none to be had. And our windows were old and leaky anyway. So I had a two-window-two-fan system going that made it just barely tolerable.

There'll be none of that this summer.

Traveling Forever (which may be my new favorite website) has an article on taking a USB key or mini-hard drive when you travel instead of a laptop.

The thing about it is you can put portable applications on it. They suggest a web browser (Firefox), mail (Thunderbird), a word processor (AbiWord), instant messaging (Miranda), and image editing (GIMP). And then you can store all your photos and whatnot, depending on how much disk space you pony up for.

What a frickin' sweet idea!

(via Lifehack.org)

MGoBlog, on Tayshaun Prince:

I also love that he reminds me of a pterodactyl.

I keep forgetting that this is a long/holiday weekend. I have absolutely nothing planned.

My boss's boss came around and said everyone could feel free to leave at 3:00. My boss just came around and said feel free to leave at 2:00. I've gotten as much done as I'm going to get done. I have one more thing that I really ought to knock out, but I just do not have the attention span for it today.

2:00 it is! Ooh, look, it's 1:58 right now. ¡Hasta Martes!

Bwaha! Bwahaha!

In a surprise twist, three doctors from Duluth, Minnesota decided to use poop to help cure their patients. Doctors Johannes Aas, Charles E. Gessert, and Johan S. Bakken used a stool transplant to cure reoccurring Clostridium difficile Colitis in 16 of their patients. You read correctly. Sick patients received stool from stool donors and became healthy because of the stool transplants.

(via MNspeak, where you really ought to read the comments)

I totally want to buy Stick It when it comes out on DVD. Fly Girl wanted to see it since she used to be a gymnast, so we went right when it came out. I called it Bring It On, but with gymnastics instead of cheerleading. AfterEllen calls it the same thing:

[Blah blah blah about Newfest, the New York City gay film festival.] [T]here are some lighter U.S. entries, like ... The Gymnast, a story about lesbian love set in the world of gymnastics. Not to be confused with the recent and probably funnier teen flick Stick It, the Bring It On-esque film about heterosexual love set in the world of gymnastics.

Speaking of which, why doesn't someone make a lesbian Bring It On? Now that I would gladly pay good money to see, especially if Eliza Dushku was in it. Her character's so gay already, you would only need to rewrite a little of the script.

Amen, sista.

Today...
...is gonna be hot. Forget summer. I want spring back.
...is gonna be long. I went out last night and didn't get very much sleep.
...doesn't feel like Friday, because I was pretty sure yesterday was Friday.

This week...
...I feel like I actually accomplished some things at work.
...I found out my car needs another $1500 in repairs.
...I slacked a little on the running. I hate to be a whiner about the heat, but it really does make a difference.
...I got my new (to me) bike back from the shop. Can't wait to ride it this weekend.
...I have wished numerous times that the ceiling fan that's in my living room was in the bedroom instead.

This month...
...is the six-year anniversary of my first tattoo.
...the spending has been a little out of control.
...Fly Girl graduated with her (second) Masters! Congratulations, babe.
...I've been metroblogging like a fiend. Which makes me forget that I don't post here. I know I've been blogging somewhere.
...has flown by.

Holy fucking shit!

Buy a Nike shoe, buy the special Sportkit for $29, get a sensor to stick in your shoe, and it sends data about your run back to your iPod nano. No details on what kind of data, but the picture shows time, pace and distance (and some music info).

Time, pace, and distance are really the main things I want out of my GPS, so this would be perfectly adequate. And cheap. I mean, you're also paying for Nike shoes and an iPod nano, but I'd be buying running shoes anyway and it wouldn't kill me to upgrade from my iPod mini.

More from The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

(via Kimberley)

Time for another edition. Since Tiffany just did something similar. Feel free to play along.

• I'm having trouble respecting you. It's less your own fault than the fault of that other guy whose opinion I let influence me.
• I'm having trouble respecting you, since I let your opinion influence me about that other guy.
• I love you.
• If you quit pretending like nothing's wrong, I'll do the same. Except that means we have to deal with the issues, and I'm feeling too lazy to do that. Because I'm way over here and you're way over there and it doesn't really bother me on a daily basis.
• I don't think you much like me anymore, after that incident with that girl, because I know you don't like how I handled it. I don't regret what I did, but it makes me sad that you are clearly more distant. I don't know how to approach that.
• This arrangement/agreement/whatever is bullshit. I feel gypped. I really want to call this out, but it doesn't seem worth it.
• You seem nice enough. In fact, you're way cooler than I thought you would be. But sometimes you really creep me out.
• For someone who seems to think that we're so close, you don't really act like it. That's as much my fault as it is yours, since that's the dynamic we've established over the years, what with my being largely unavailable and all. But still. Show me a little love, eh?

I feel like I should some more positive items in that list. But I'm feeling mostly okay about most things, and I think I've already told the appropriate persons if I have a positive thought towards them.

Heh!

Angela Nissel, a writer for Scrubs and author of The Broke Diaries and Mixed: My Life in Black and White...

...on Fresh Air.
...on the Addicted to Race podcast.

I don't follow the Pistons too closely during the regular season. I don't have cable and I don't live in Detroit and so they're just not there to be watched. But now that it's the playoffs, I'm on it. Although I had just assumed they'd be done with the Cavaliers in 5. Who knew they'd let Cleveland win three in a row and have to come from behind and win Games 6 and 7 to advance to the Conference Final? Crikey.

I watched Game 7 yesterday and holy shit that was a good one. LeBron James really is an amazing player, but he just could not quite get it together. So I worry because the boys are tired and Miami's been waiting patiently for them to finish up. But I have confidence.

At the same time, the WNBA season is starting up and the L-y-n-x** have their first home game tomorrow night, which I expect to attend. I saw their preseason game against Seattle and it was great. Seimone Augustus is unbelievable. She made everything look so easy.

I ought to look into a multi-game package. I'm not gonna cough up for a season ticket, but I am available to go to pretty much all the games, and that's gonna add up quick. Sunshine Sinatra conceded that a WNBA game might not be totally boring (after I made a brilliant Katie Smith/Kevin Garnett analogy), so I know for sure I'm gonna go to a game with him. Hopefully when Detroit comes to town.

**For some strange reason, my MT install chokes with very particular uses of the word "l-y-n-x" so obfuscation it is.

I've spent so much time over the last few weeks focusing on these new speed milestones I've reached. Especially how I've managed to reach them without killing myself. I've only felt like I expended significant effort on the day I ran that new best time. Not so much on any other normal day of running.

I'm now at the beginning of a half marathon training program. So my long run today was a mere 4 miles. I made a conscious effort to take it slow and easy and it felt so good. I always do this. Get preoccupied with speed. Even when it's my long run of the week, if the distance is relatively short, I feel compelled to run it at faster than "easy" pace. Today I didn't and it was so comfortable and so effortless.

So, about that half marathon. I haven't actually registered for the San Francisco Half Marathon, but I did already commit to another event in town that weekend, so I know I'll be there. I should probably go on and do that. The fee goes up from $65 to $70 on Tuesday.

I found this:

Registration is open to participants running under a 6-hour Marathon Pace (13:44 minute miles), a 3-hour 1st Half Marathon Pace (13:44 minute miles) or a 3-hour & 30-minute 2nd Half Marathon Pace (16:01 minute miles).

I'm curious to know what exactly is different about the two Half halves that the 2nd Half allows you an extra 30 minutes. I'm gonna guess it has something to do with hills, but I'm too lazy to analyze the course. But it also seems strange that, if the second half is that much more difficult than the first, they'd limit the marathon pace to the same limit as the first Half half. I would think they'd allow a slower marathon pace to account for the more difficult second half. And, if you're that slow that you'd be close to the limit, how would you know if you could make the time on one but not the other?

I know I want to run the Golden Gate Bridge, so I'll be running the first half anyway. And I expect to be more around the 2-hour mark. I'm guessing the first half is gonna be a lot more crowded. Wouldn't everyone want to run the bridge? What would really suck would be if the terror alert level is raised at that time.

CODE ORANGE ALERT: In case of a Code Orange alert, issued by the US Department of Homeland Security, the Course would feature an out and back on the Great Highway instead of crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Again this would only happen in case of a Code Orange alert.

Okay, reading further I see this part that gives me pause:

STARTING TIMES will be between 5am and 6:35am for the full marathon and first half marathon. The 2nd half marathon starts at 8:15am....

That alone makes me really want to do the second half. Especially since I know I'll be occupied for a good chunk of the previous evening and I'll be having to come up to San Francisco from San Jose. Nah. I really want to run the bridge.

Alright, I just registered for the first half Half. w00t!

I just mentioned that I was interested in the Great River Relay, right? Teams of 12 run a 150-mile, 36-leg course from La Crosse, WI to Harriet Island in St. Paul. Each team member runs 3 legs. Each leg is 3-8 miles long, and varying in difficulty from pretty hilly to pretty flat.

Today a guy at work stopped by my cube and asked if I was interested. He thought he had heard me mention it before. I hadn't, but he knows I run. He doesn't want to organize it, but he wants to participate. His department has most of the runners in it, so he's gonna see if he can round up some folks and I'm gonna ask around amongst my peeps. Maybe we can finagle some sort of company sponsorship.

I had a two mile run on my training schedule for yesterday. I opted out of doing hills with Run Club so I could make this two miles another stab at improving my PFT score.

I had just determined that I ought to be able to do two miles in 16:47, according to the McMillan Running Calculator. You know what my time was?

I've foregone using Firefox because it's not really the best option for my Mac. I've been using Camino and if that ceased to be acceptable I'd go back to Safari.

I managed to get my work PC upgraded from Windows 2000 to Windows XP. Why I had to ask for that and it wasn't already done, I don't know. Anyway, I've downloaded Firefox to use at work. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to, because I don't have permission to write to my Programs folder. But I just installed it on my desktop instead.

And it's totally awesome! I suppose at work I shouldn't be using it so much that I need all sorts of plugins for it, but I like having the option to install them if I want to. Truthfully, I haven't noticed a huge performance difference between Firefox and IE, but I just feel dirty using IE, and I loves me some tabs. So Firefox it is.

I also loaded all my IMAP mailboxes into Outlook, so I can get all my mail without re-logging into each account on webmail all the time. Except that I can't send from those accounts via Outlook. Maybe I'll see if I can install Thunderbird just for those purposes.

Haven't checked in in a while. This is gonna be a long one.

File under You know you're a runner when...

The half marathon training schedule I'm putting myself on calls for a two-mile run today. I thought, "Hey, I'll make it a time trial for the PFT." But then I got the email from Running Room with the schedule for this week's practice sessions. Tonight they will be running hills. I actually thought to myself, "Ooh! Hills!"

My friends Brandy and Tony live very close to Chow in San Francisco, so I've eaten there a couple of times. It's frickin' delicious (and affordable). But I've never had dessert there. I hear they've got this ginger cake with pumpkin ice cream and whipped cream.

Pumpkin ice cream! Ginger cake! Pumpkin ice cream!

!!!

I would buy a plane ticket and fly across the country right now just to have that dessert.

*foodgasm*

My AppleCare agreement ends this fall. I was thinking about getting a new laptop at that point. Upgrade the OS at least to Tiger. (Will Leopard be out by then?)

This is reinforced by the fact that my hard drive is (again) making the occasional not-so-good sounding clicking noise. I've been backing up more frequently and I'm hoping it'll hang in there for a few more months.

That's what I had been thinking, but I wasn't committed to anything yet. Now after seeing Apple's new MacBook, that decision has been solidified. This has gone from, "I should probably get another iBook" to "I MUST HAVE A MACBOOK."

It's so pretty.

The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health has this "Love Life, Stop AIDS" campaign, for which they've developed a couple ads with the slogan "No action without protection."

(Possibly NSFW.)

Folks here are pretty serious about taking lunch. Several times folks have made comments to me about working through lunch. What I was doing was eating at my desk (because our lunch room is teeny tiny and it sucks) while playing on the internet. Definitely not working.

So I've been thinking that I should really take advantage of my lunch hour and go sit in a coffee shop or something and read a book. The only problem with this is that going out encourages me to spend money, and I'm trying to limit myself to only buying lunch on Fridays, when all the engineer kids go together. I can't very well microwave my lunch and then hop in the car with it. Maybe I'll treat myself to lunch out with a book one day a week.

When it gets nice out, I can go sit outside. Until then, or in case of rain, I ought to find a nice quiet hidden spot in the building. I know where a lot of the facilities stuff is. I'm sure there's a spot somewhere behind an air handling unit or something.

Here we go.

1. Are there any foods you do not allow yourself to eat, even though you love them? Hell to the no.
2. Have you attended any of your high school or college reunions? Nope. My 10-year high school reunion was last fall and to my surprise I was sort of a little bit interested in going, but it was logistically inconvenient. I have no interest whatsoever in going to any college reunions. My university/college/class was so big, if there's anyone I'd like to see, I'd have to arrange that with the individual. There's no way I'd just run into folks.
3. If you could trade lives with another blogger for a week, who would you pick? You know, there's not really anyone I'd like to trade lives with. There are plenty of bloggers I'd like to meet, but none I'd like to be.
4. What's your favorite thing to do on a chilly, drizzly day? Sleep. Snuggle. Fall asleep snuggling.
5. What kind of cell phone do you have? I have a Sanyo PM-8200. In red. I love that my phone is red. That may be a search criterion the next time I need a phone. When I bought this phone, the guy at Radio Shack told me the red ones sold like hotcakes and I got the last one they had. I've never seen anyone else with the red one. I've seen folks with all the other colors, but never the red.
6. Describe any piercings or tattoos you have. Piercings: left eyebrow, two holes in my left earlobe, one in my right (used to be two, but the second one closed up a long time ago). Tattoos: vine with flowers around my right arm, Taurus symbol on my left hip.
7. What is your ideal 10-day vacation? In ten days, I'd say a tour of two or three cities. Not necessarily in the same country. But that's enough time to see those cities, and see some stuff in between. There'd be a little bit of nature, and a little bit of hustle and bustle. That's the style of vacation I like. I couldn't nail down a destination at the moment.
8. How many umbrellas do you own? Two. One travel-sized one that I hate that's green and yellow plaid. As of last week I have a company-logo-ed golf umbrella that I don't really foresee using. I hate carrying extra stuff as it is. I'd rather just wear a jacket that will keep me dry.
9. What is one thing you've learned over the past 24 hours? I can get cardholder-only discounts at Eddie Bauer if I sign up for an Eddie Bauer card. Because what I really need is another credit card.
10. Ask me something. Have you said anything lately that you wish you could take back?

I swear to god, if any part of the Grey's Anatomy season finale gets cut off by the president spewing some nonsense addressing the nation, there will be hell to pay.

Do people still use these anymore? Are they played out? (Much like the phrase "played out.")

I'm thinking about starting up a group. I don't just want it to be an aggregator of blogs to a locality, where I can pretty much just throw up a list and people can visit it for reference.

I don't expect it to be an active community of participators. I do want folks to be able to throw up a button that leads back to a central location, where they can access these other affiliated blogs.

I guess the main point is I don't want to have to manage it so actively. With the webring option, people can sign themselves up. With the list option, I have to find folks and put them on the list. I think it could possibly be a pretty big list.

I see lots of knitters that are hooked up with RingSurf groups. I guess RingSurf is the way to go. The kind of site I'm looking to build would be similar to what Blog Oklahoma has going on. Except that I don't know how to make it look that pretty, and I'm not looking to spend any money beyond a domain name. But the idea is to have a prettier home page than the Webring provider's page.

So, do I have any options aside from RingSurf? I'm also looking at alt-webring.com, but I haven't researched it very thoroughly yet.

I suppose if I tried really hard, I could roll my own with MT and some forms. Let folks sign themselves up and give 'em a button to link with. But that would be minus the ring surfing functionality. I might not care so much about that. Maybe I like that idea better. I just don't want to have to learn a whole lot of new, technical stuff to administer this.

"muffin top"

Okay, phrase.

Comes via KathyHowe.

"You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly."

Wow. Just, wow. That gives me the warm fuzzies.

KathyHowe asks what we think the secret trick is to finding love. I say there is no secret trick to finding love because love finds you. If there's a trick, it's in the fact that, as with any opportunity in life, you have to be open to it and ready for it. That's not as easy as it sounds.

I'm finding myself totally wanting to go to BlogHer '06. It's July 28th and 29th.

And. AND.

The San Francisco Marathon is July 30th. I'd run the half, of course. I could even choose which half. Registration is still open.

I haven't been to California in two whole years. I was going every year for a while. I'm going through a little withdrawal. Since I'm clearly not moving there any time in the immediate future.

I came across a definition of validation today. It's a little tricky to explain exactly what it is in a concise way, so I thought I'd share the blurb as to what exactly validation is in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment:

Validation testing demonstrates that the interaction of equpiment, materials, and people produces a product that meets specifications for quality, safety, and performance.

It might not seem very clear, but that's a pretty good definition. Let me expand on that.

Fly Girl does this thing, when she has the bed all to herself, where she arranges the pillows so that she's sort of cocooned. It's super cute. And it never fails; she moves the pillows within minutes of my getting up.

I came home one day to this. She must have been in a hurry in the morning and didn't make the bed before she left.

Seriously. Whenever I'm out to eat and I'm looking at a menu, if I see gorgonzola, I have a hard time concentrating on anything else.

I just made some mashed potatoes and dropped half a wedge of gorgonzola in. It's not enough.

Mmm... gorgonzola.... :9

Has begun!

Dick Cheney
Before He Dicks You

No lie, people. Pimpfants! They sell baby beaters and 1Z's and velour hoody track suits for toddlers.

Pimpfants' fresh designs fill the clothing void that has been long overlooked for the new generation of parents who want their children to be both hip and comfortable.

Not quite the same as the grup crowd, I don't think.

(via House 8)

Is not too bad. It's no Diet Coke with Lime, but it's better than regular Diet Ass Coke.

Except they're on the floor.

From my cube today, I heard the sound of someone clipping their nails. I peeked around the corner, and there was my ex-manager, just standing there with nail clippers in his hand.

I informed him that that was not acceptable. Not within my earshot, anyway. He tried to distract me by talking about how much dead skin sloughs off of people and onto the floor every day.

I hate hate HATE when people clip their nails anywhere but into a trash can. I'm less than fond of the sound of it. That's a personal grooming habit that can wait until you get into the privacy of your own home, unless you're having some sort of hangnail emergency. But the sound isn't nearly as bad as the mental picture of a pile of clippings on the floor.

And lord help the person that clips their nails onto my floor and I step on that shit with my bare feet. The fact that I have a thing about my feet and almost always have flip-flops or slippers on around the house makes it unlikely that that would actually happen. If, in an unguarded moment, I need to get from one room to another right now and leave hard soles behind, it'll likely be accompanied by the thought, "It'll probably be safe...."

*twitch*

I do indeed see jeans today. But I think it's all been Quality people, and they seem to generally be more relaxed anyway. I don't think anyone in my department is wearing them. No one else in my group is here today, so I can't judge by that. But no one else in my cube area, which is basically the entire engineering department, has jeans on.

My manager is uptight, so I'll have to investigate a little more before I just show up in jeans.

I could have written this myself:

As an adult, I absolutely suck at keeping in touch with people. It's not as bad as it could be - email makes it easier, but even still, I'm not really good at sending an email to someone I’ve been thinking about to just say hi....

I don't think I'm anti-social, although sometimes I think maybe I am. I think it all boils down to laziness in some cases, and in others it's just that I think about emailing someone and then I get distracted and forget. You know, because I—ooo, look! Shiny!

I scold myself all the time for not keeping up my friends. Especially when it comes time to do something social and I'm hesitant to call anyone because it's been so long since the last time I talked to them.

It's more that I'm an introvert. I don't hate being around people. I just like my alone time. A lot.

Fly Girl is on the phone all the time. She's got her core group of peeps and she's always talking to them. Whenever she thinks of someone — boom — she gets on the phone. I don't really have a core group of peeps at the moment. And I'm not so much into calling just to say hi. I call when I have a specific purpose.

I'm gonna have to work on that if I want to have anyone to do things with during my new-found free time.

JayMonster left this comment at KathyHowe's that pretty well matches the nutshell version of how I feel on the immigration matter:

Well, I am on the fence (so to speak). I understand the problems and red-tape is maddening, but that being said, if you want to break the law, then you are not "entitled" to the same rights as those that have done it right.

I don't want to not give people a chance. But you can't just give folks stuff, either. And of course there are a billion factors to consider in the matter. But that's the gist of it.

At first I thought to myself that most folks probably feel that way, so it seems silly for me to say that. But then I remembered conversations I've had with a certain person at work who would just as soon put up a giant fence, so that is definitely not the case.

When I was a tablet monkey, we had uniforms, so I could wear any old thing because I would change clothes when I got to work. The biggest challenge was remembering to bring socks with me in the summer.

With the job I had before that, the environment was very casual. Even though I didn't necessarily, I could have worn jeans and a t-shirt every day.

With my new job, I'm now doing the business casual thing every day. I've been stocking up on clothes for a bit in anticipation, so I am able to dress myself. I'd feel better if I had a little more, but I'm good for a couple weeks at a time the way things stand right now.

Add to it that I'm a much better dresser now (with significant help from Fly Girl). I've long since stopped shopping in the men's section. I buy my clothes so that they fit. And dammit, I look good! So this business casual thing is enough of a novelty to me that I've been contemplating taking a picture of my outfit every day to chronicle this transformation. Starting today when I get home.

Now, if only I could figure out what to do with my hair. Evening workouts = evening showers = crazy morning bedhead.

I'm all late and shit.

1. Do you pee in the shower? Yes, I do. I didn't until I asked about it a while back, but now I'm so used to doing it I get the urge right when I get in the shower.
2. Do you buy organic/free range products? Nope.
3. What was the highlight of your weekend? The Boyz were here visiting for my b-day.
4. What's your favorite 80s power ballad? Love and Affection by Nelson. Inspired by Dawn, I'm changing my answer to To Be With You by Mr. Big.
5. Have you ever been in a fist-fight? No. I was in a shoving match in 3rd grade, but never a "real" fight.
6. Do you have any secrets you've never told to another person? Yes. Although I can't think of what those might be at the moment.
7. Would you rather consume a cupful of 5 randomly selected condiments, or a cupful of rotten milk? I'll take the condiment cocktail.
8. About how many words per minute can you type? 60-ish, I think. I thought about finding an online test to verify (I know I've done one before), but I'm too lazy right now.
9. What is your favorite thing about spring? The warm-but-not-hot weather.
10. Ask me something. Whatcha doing this weekend?

OMG, I so love this idea. From the latest issue of the MN Women's Press:

I'm the boss of me

When tough questions fluster President Bush, he tends to respond with less-than-eloquent prose. Case in point: his clumsy April 18 statement defending Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld against loud criticism from six retired military generals—"I'm the decider...I decide what's best."

Local writer Sue Maas has made Bush's rhetorical lemons into lemonade, offering "I'm the decider" T-shirts online and devoting half the proceeds to Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. What could be more fashionable than using Dubya's own words to assert your freedom of choice as a voter and a woman?

I put this up over on Metblog, and of course the first comment I got was something about baby killing.

How does one get to be a victim of human trafficking, exactly?

I was reading an article on all this illegal immigration undocumented worker stuff. The author is an Asian-American woman and was talking about how there needs to be solidarity amongst all the immigrant groups, and within the ethnic groups, both legal residents and otherwise. She included the data point that Asians are the second largest group of illegals (at 13%, Latinos are the largest with 78%), and the majority are either folks who came over as students and stayed illegally or are victims of human trafficking.

So I'm asking because it's hard for me to imagine how one gets oneself into that situation. Are there people from Asia who are trying to get here but are misled as to how exactly that's going to happen? Or are folks captured and thrown on a boat? Or what?