Got up to New Egypt at noon to find adorable little Tristan and Robert inside a big box. They had a ball pretending to hide, rocking it back and forth, an scrambling in and out. After chatting for a time with N., we all left for lunch. Went to the very peculiar restaurant on Main Street: no customers, oblivious waitress, mediocre food and a lot of it. Anyway, we had a good time laughing and talking. Stopped in after and left about 3:30.
Other than that, nothing going on. I was happy to get an e-mail from director Tonya that our first rehearsal is tonight. Looking forward to being back with my fellow thespians.
WIDER: This from "Fearing The Reaper Drone" from Anti-War.Com. It's about surveillance of American citizens in this country by police:
"As with any other kind of military creep, Americans will likely get comfortable with the idea that the drones will be deployed for “specific missions” like busting cagey marijuana growers and tracking down dangerous suspects. What they won’t know until its too late, is that departments across the country will want to deploy them as much as possible, because they can, and as WaPo points out, operating a drone costs half as much as a black helicopter. So don’t be surprised if they start to replace traffic cops. In fact, they’ll give “neighborhood patrol” quite a new name."
For the whole harrowing piece:
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2011/01/31/fearing-the-reaper-drone/
And be very afraid.