I'm now authorized...

To tell you my step-dad's great news...



Steve Gettinger, my remarkable stepfather, has quit his job to run away to the National Journal and become their new Managing Editor!!!

When you work in news media (he was with Bloomberg before, and at Congressional Quarterly before that...) changing jobs is all super-secret-shit, because they're afraid you might steal their secrets to take to the next place... or they're afraid you might saboutage their system or something...

So when you give your two weeks notice at a job like that, they have to escort you from the building immediately, and then pay you for the two weeks anyway.

Steve plans to spend the next two weeks converting old vinyl LPs to CD.

Yay Steve!!!!!!