Craziness out there on the blocks of N. Beach tonight. As Field Manager, I draw up the maps for the other canvassers on my crew. The Director gives me an area, and then it's my job to work through it effectively and efficiently with my crew. Each night a canvasser is assigned about 3-4 primary streets and then 1-2 secondary streets.

Today I mapped them right smack into the middle of Chinatown. Yeah, not good. One might even call it Big Trouble. But my crew rocked and we got it figured out. I sent them north and west, out of those streets filled with shops, and with people that don't--on the whole--speak much English. Still managed to get 16 new members, and several of them will be contributing monthly. Even better, one canvasser absolutely crushed his goal and set up the office for a great week. But if I hadn't fucked up completely, that would have never happened. Challenges are simply opportunities from the wrong angle. Tonight we spun it in our favor.

I wonder, though, how the media will spin this new development in the Darth Cheney v. Congress battle. Here's the deal: The Prez and VP are supposed to tell the Information Security Oversight Office at The National Archives "how much material they classify and declassify." Not even what, just how much. VP D. Cheney refuses to do that. So now a Senate Appropriations Panel is refusing to fund the VP's office. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. Maybe this time that long-sought creature called Accountability will pop in from Pluto and play.

This country is in crisis, but it just may be our chance for some positive change. We must be bold, though, because that is who Fortune favors.