So, today being Saturday, I went late for my therapy (no jokes, please) and had a nice riistafel take-away dinner from a good oriental restaurant nearby. I got some Opor Ayam, which is a nice chicken curry with coconut garnish, Nasi Goreng, a wickedly hot fried rice, some shrimp with peanut sauce, and some Pisang Goreng , sweet banana strips sautéed in butter, just for some sweetness. Indonesian is sometimes hotter than Thai food, but in a good riisstafel restaurant you can always get something to cool the mouth after the chillies and peanuts.

The meal was great. This gave me heartburn, though.

LONDON (Reuters) - Forty-five percent of Iraqis believe attacks on U.S. and British troops are justified, according to a secret poll said to have been commissioned by British defense leaders and cited by The Sunday Telegraph.

The paper said the poll, conducted in August by an Iraqi university research team, was commissioned by the Ministry of Defense.

Sitting here in a boarded up house, waiting for yet another hurricane, undoubtedly caused by the global warming these guys pretend doesn’t exist, and they found a way to ruin a perfectly good dinner.

Mission Accomplished.