Category: general

This is scary because I am a pretty savvy computer user and tend to notice when urls don’t match or when emails aren’t coming from where they say they’re coming from. But how else to explain why my MySpace account was used to post ads for Starbucks on most of my friends’ pages?

I guess it’s a good thing I don’t have that many friends. :P

I’ve changed my password, but at this point I’d almost rather close my account. I hardly ever use MySpace anyway. But there are people I can really only keep in touch with through MySpace, damn it, so I guess I will just have to deal with it.

What a load of shit. Fuck MySpace. And fuck Starbucks too.

(Sorry, Mom.)

Well.

Now I have some information I have no right to have. And I feel sick.

I have to decide what to do about it. Because what’s done is done, and it isn’t going to go away.

This is the first thing that needs to be done though:

I’m sorry.

My Boss: I get so much mail. I wish there was something I could dump it all into, and then it would spit back out the stuff I need to know and get rid of the rest.

Me: Kind of like an RSS aggregator for regular mail.

My Boss: …I have no idea what you just said.

I feel like I just got here, but I’m off once again, down the interstates and back to Augusta.

I was hoping that this vacation would be restful, but given the short span of time I had here, sandwiched between 530 miles of driving, I must have been delusional. I think the most relaxation I’ve had has been today, when I decided that I should sleep in so I’m not tired on the road. But even now I don’t feel relaxed.

I just feel…weary.

Oh well. At least I only have two days of work before the weekend.

Could you all please just let her rest in–and for that matter, give the rest of us–peace?

I was on an internal call with a female anchor (she was in the newsroom, I was in my office down the hall) and she was giving me color commentary on the Masters, when suddenly the all-call sounded, summoning the talent to the studio.

“I gotta go be on TV, I’ll call you back,” she said.

To be fair, I’m sure they edited out all the correct answers…but still.

(That one older gentleman who said Hiroshima and Nagasaki were famous for judo-wrestling…shouldn’t he know better? I mean…wasn’t he alive then? O_o

(I also wanted to die when that guy said Yasser Arafat was the president of Al Qaeda, a suicide group in Israel…and don’t get me started on that fake map, and how no one noticed it was wrong!

(Also disenheartening were the responses to the question “Who should be invaded next?” Not just because they were stupid, but because no one said, “I don’t think we need to invade anyone.”)

Now that Brooke is gone, who am I supposed to drag along when I get free tickets to stuff?

I’m going to Quartetto Gelato tonight at the Imperial, and of course I have two tickets, but I can’t think of anyone to invite!

I did ask Wes, but he had play practice, and I tried Mari, but it was way too short notice.

I’m so exhausted right now I don’t even know if I want to go, but I’ve been looking forward to it for weeks.

So blah. I guess my purse will have its own seat.

Either that or I could randomly give it to a stranger. But I doubt I will see many other people attending the concert by themselves.

;P

Edit: I’m still at work at 7:55, and the show starts at 8…so I just called the Imperial to tell them they could sell or give my tickets away to someone else. They seemed to appreciate that, which is good.

I’m feeling a little poopy. Just need to get done here and go home and change into my nightclothes and veg out with my Initial D First Stage DVDs.

I’ve spent the majority of the afternoon in a raging fury, no doubt stoked by the flames of PMS. (Is it actually PMS during your period, or just beforehand?) Setting the influence of my hormones aside, I did have genuine reason to be upset.

I was eventually able to solve the problem to a reasonable degree, but not quite to my satisfaction. Still, things are better than they were an hour ago.

Now I’m coming down from the adrenaline rush that fueled (or was fueled by) my anger, and I feel like curling up and taking a nap.

However, there is news to get online! And so I must get to it.

I hate having to deal with short-sighted, pigheaded, small-minded know-it-alls.

Arrogance is actually something I find very attractive, but only if it’s backed up with actual intelligence and knowledge and thought.

People who demean other people and ignore their ideas simply because they don’t mesh with what’s already being done are slime, and I can’t stand to watch them, let alone pretend to like them.

Okay, I’ll admit it: I am a huge Violent Acres fan.

There. It’s all out in the open now.

I’ve wanted to feature most, if not all, of her posts, but up until now I haven’t even featured one. I’m not sure why, really. Maybe I didn’t feel like getting into the debates that would undoubtedly arise. Maybe I wasn’t in the mood to explain why I like her blog. Maybe I was just wussing out for no apparent reason.

The first post of hers that I really, really wanted to share and discuss was the abortion one, which really threw me. In the end, I can’t say that I wholeheartedly agree with her–last time I checked, humans couldn’t predict the future, despite what some celebrities say, and so how often would a case arise where you know something terrible will happen to a child? But I don’t work in social services. Maybe that sort of time comes more than I want to believe.

At any rate, V makes me think, and that’s why I read her.

Today she gets into politics, and her laying bare of the hypocrisies within the various groups who lobby in Washington is so near to the frustrations I feel when I try to make political decisions that finally I was moved to write. Maybe I’m still being a wuss–presenting V’s opinions when I should just present my own. But she just says it so well:

The Democrats want me to believe that anyone who doesn’t support government sponsored programs that promote a victim mentality (such as welfare and social security) is a cruel, intolerant, selfish asshole. The Democrats want me to pay minorities for past atrocities (Through affirmative action, etc) committed against their ancestors based completely on the color of my skin. If I argue or point out the fact that my ancestors did not even live in America when slavery was rampant, they call me a racist. Should I be against gay marriage but completely supportive of homosexual civil unions, I am a homophobe. The Democrats want me to believe that supporting speech that is hateful strictly based on a person’s constitutional rights is akin to agreeing with the person being the jerk.

I am starting to wonder if ‘Intolerance’ is the Democrat’s big lie. It seems to me that they use that word as a weapon to demoralize people and create social stigma around any idea that is contrary to their own. Excuse me if that doesn’t seem very tolerant to me.

The Republicans want me to believe that anyone who is an Atheist possesses no morals and will someday commit a crime. They tell me that I only resent being spied on because I have something to hide. If I support abortion because I believe it is more merciful to end a life than to bring it into the world unwanted and abused, they accuse me of being a heartless murderer. If I say it is better for a child to be raised by a gay couple as opposed to being completely abandoned, the Republicans say I lack family values. If I insist that school should be a place for education and not religious training, it is obvious to them that I don’t give a shit about the children.

Perhaps ‘Family Values’ is the Republican’s big lie. That phrase is being used to shame the opposition into supporting religious agendas in a country that prides itself on religious freedom. Just because I am not a Christian does not mean that I do not see the value in a strong family unit, nor does it make me a criminal.

The Feminists tell me that men and women who complete the same job do not make equal pay. If true, I agree that is unfair. However, when I make note of the fact that men do not get equal rights in family court, I notice that the feminists are suspiciously quiet.

Is Feminism about equality or superiority? Do they even know anymore?

Some scientists say global warming is a very real phenomenon. They say that unless we act now, there will be tragic consequences for the future. Other scientists say that the Earth has gone through varying climate changes for billions of years. They note the tropical climate back when dinosaurs walked the planet and the ice age that soon followed.

Who shall I believe when both groups hold their hands out for more grant money?

Her post is actually about how everyone lies, how lying is accepted, encouraged, ignored, and forgiven in this country, and how that makes it pretty damn hard to raise a child not to lie. She makes some good points there. But this little bit about political groups was what really spoke to me.

Sometimes, when I get to thinking about all the things that don’t seem to work in our political system, I want to just give up and move to another country.

Today I finally told everyone involved what I had chosen. I can’t get into details here because my decision was of a professional nature, but suffice it to say that I am happy where I am, I feel an ownership of what I do, and I am lucky that others appreciate me and fought to get me what I needed.

Before announcing my decision, I felt calm, and afterwards, I spent the rest of the day in a sort of hazy euphoria. There is no doubt in my mind that my decision was the right one, and I am excited about what the future will bring.

If you want details, feel free to ask privately :)

Because this is the biggest story in Augusta. Screw T-Mobile, I’m all about ramming an SUV through the second floor of Augusta Mall!

He looks pleasant, doesn’t he?

What’s scary about this is how deftly he maneuvers through the mall, never slowing down, and somehow managing not to careen over the side and fall to the first level.

Miklos says this story was on CNN, and I also heard that Inside Edition came out to film something. (You know your story’s worth something when it’s on Inside Edition! ;P)

Well. All right then.

Not sure why they picked Big Bird for their scapegoat. These days, it seems like Elmo is Sesame Street. When’s the last time they made a Big Bird movie?

Regardless, it’s nice of MSN to suggest the death of a children’s television character, isn’t it?

Here’s the article. It’s by Brockenbrough!

(Thanks to Sean for the heads up.)

Does anyone else find it a little…strange that masters.org is built by IBM?

I loathe the phrase “log on to”. You only log on to a website if 1) you’re on dialup; 2) the website requires registration. Stop using it, people!

I am so tired. I went to sleep around 1 am, only to be awakened by work calling at 4. They asked a silly question and I went back to bed, but it took forever to get back to sleep. Then my boss called as I was trying to sleep in to ask if I was going to update the severe weather from home. Oh. Gee! At first I thought I must be late, so I asked her what time it was, and it was 8:40. Not a bad time to get up. So I did, and updated the severe weather information, and came to work.

I have no place to complain given how many of our people worked overnight to cover the tornadoes and heavy winds and rain. But I’m still tired! ;P

It was beautiful out the day before yesterday. I went for a walk and took pictures, which I’ll put up later. Glad I did before the storm!

Every day as I drive in to work I see things blooming along the Augusta Canal and think that I should go there with my bike and take some pictures. I will try to do that tomorrow. The storm doesn’t seem to have demolished the trees near I-20, at least.

PS: At first when work called, I didn’t recognize the number, so I ignored the call. It went to voicemail. This scared me a little–why would someone I didn’t have programmed into my phone be calling at 4 am? And my first thought was that something had happened to my Yaris.

So I got up and opened the front door…and my Yaris was fine. Whew.