When the boat’s a rockin’, hold on to your w(h)ine

Bit of a rough day at sea.  According to Voyage Director Roy, the swells were around 10 feet, which wasn’t terrible but enough to make a couple of gals hold on to their drinks for dear life.  As they held down the beds in the cabin.  Because they didn’t feel good.  However, we were doing much better than Pukey Peg, who left the Union Room lecture with this morning’s breakfast in her hands and on her shirt as she sauntered to the bathroom.  Seriously?  Thank you, Peg, for setting off everyone’s trigger.

In other stormy news, today’s big event was the keynote lecture by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Conner.  As a reminder, Justice O’Connor was the first female in the SC; she was nominated by Reagan and confirmed in 1981.  She spoke about her upbringing (the Lazy B ranch in Arizona—she grew up thinking her destiny was to run the ranch) to some of her big decisions (she had the deciding vote on what to do about the Gore/Bush election debacle).  One would be hard pressed to describe Your Honor as either warm or fuzzy, but that’s probably behavior better utilized by folks at the Lazy B.  In the Q & A, one shmuck made the mistake of saying he had a two-part question.  She responded, “Let’s keep it to one.” 

Here’s to keeping your questions short, barf bag empty, and glass upright.