"Revenge of the Sitz Bath" just sounds so...obvious

Everyone who is paying for Bump is now signed up, regardless of whether they come. In other words, fees are set on what they told me as of last night.

As always, there’s been a last minute run on the team for more housing. I always get the impression that people think, oh, everyone needs a private suite, a valet, and hot and cold running masseuses. This is not the case. Everyone needs a piece of floor roughly the size of a human teenager; housees are told to bring sleeping bags, and expect no better. This year, with no many novice families, the word hasn’t taken yet because they have no first-hand experience. With luck, the Sailors will be treated like pond scum at Li’l Lex, and they’ll finally get the message. Anyhow, I’m not worried about it. We’ll figure out space, one way or the other.

The Monti MHL Saturday was a good event. Lots of Policians, for a change! Nice to see. Our largest division was novice policy, which has to be a first. The plebes, unfortunately, did not show up in force due to having a whole scad or two of schoolwork due, but Alli G managed singlehandedly to uphold the honor of the tars with a 3-0 day. I’m glad she’s around, because I get to say Alli G despite the fact I’ve never seen Ali G, or Borat, or Lord God Almighty or whatever his real name is. It makes me sound irreparably hip. As does the phrase, irreparably hip, for that matter.

And I did finally get to record the interview with O’C. We discussed his years in prison, the restraining orders that are still in effect, and whether he thinks that water-boarding is an effective speaking drill for novices (as a sneak preview, he says yes, provided you do it when they have a pencil in their mouths). It will take a while to edit it—we were interrupted now and then by a tournament trying to happen around us—but I should have it up in a week or two. Unlike his WTF interviews, where people IM him stuff and he [Chortles uncontrollably], in our interview, which was live, if there is uncontrollable chortling, you get to hear it as it happens. The little mic attached to the MegaPod seemed to work fine, and the sound quality, at least from the test I tried, was quite acceptable. I do expect this to be a hot item on the $ircuit. Next up: photos of O’C’s crib, pdfs of every schematic at every tournament where the young O’C competed with Lana Lang and the other pre-Metropolis juveniles, and Star Wars, Episode Seven: The Empire Strikes the Legion of Doom Judges on the Supplemental Sheet.