This is insane. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve made repeated trips between DC and Ohio, DC and New York, DC and Baltimore… And I was planning on making a trip from Ohio to Chicago to New York to DC for New Year’s, but that one got whacked from the schedule largely due to the insane expense it would incur. Tonight I’m planning to drive to Baltimore and back (again), and tomorrow I’m driving back to Ohio. Today, though, I have a ton of stuff I have to finish up here before I split. The name of the game here is the end-of-the-year shuffle – trying to knock as many things off the to-do list as possible here so I can launch myself into ’04 with a more or less clean slate. Pass the espresso and the iPod, there’s some serious work to be done here.