Cicadas be damned, Suzy and I spent an hour in the backyard on a blanket watching the birds socialize on the power lines. I'm aware that the cicadas haven't actually arrived yet. We joked this afternoon about every day before they come out feeling like the calm before the storm.

There are only about a dozen holes in the backyard so far and I couldn't even say that they are cicada holes for sure. Phil Garrett posted up a picture from 17 years ago where his backyard looked like swiss cheese. I'm not looking forward to that either.

I spent the day working on the Playa del Fuego ticket system and Suzy put together Ginger's new clutter management web site. Hopefully she'll like it when she finally gets to see it.

News for the day on Abu Gharib, Diebold, March 11, 2004 and the Palestinian State.

• Bush Iraq Prisoner Abuse Is 'Wrongdoing of a Few'
• Bremer: 'Something should have been done earlier'
• Bush Says Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners Won't Derail U.S. `Mission'
• "Sometimes they pretended to kill me"
• Bar Association: Torture Sanctioned by Pentagon Appointees
• Bush says Palestinian state by 2005 not "realistic"
• Arafat: US wrong to put off statehood
• Fingerprint links Oregon with Spain: Officials have been watching Brandon Mayfield of Aloha since two weeks after the March 11 Madrid terror bombings
• Diebold May Face Criminal Charges?

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