some ranting...ok so now that i am all pissed off i think i might actually write a real post of sorts. i had some notes for the intro and some tips ready to go but the installation software for the damn isp i will have for the next four months screwed that up. ok, it's my fault for not saving when it said i should but it screwed up multiple things. i really hate when companies release software that really should still be in beta. just go ahead and ask alice all about that. on the other hand i have beta tested software that was wonderful until they started charging for it. they nerve of some companies. maybe some day i will get around to actually learning how to do it my own damn self. then i can write that program/virus thing that i have stuck in my head. i'll do that right about the same time i learn all that other crap i keep saying i need to. probably should start with the asl stuff first. start with something at least.
to make things even better my mother has a laptop and i don't. that is just not fair. i don't need a fancy one. it just has to run off batteries and work properly. nothing fast or spectacular. just working. i need it for text editing and the like. so that i can take notes and work on certian things when and where the mood takes me. i could have done this earlier but that is all shot to shit now so i suppose i am just wishing in one hand at this point. and being teased by the fact that i have to make my mothers work properly as well as showing her how to use it. dammit.
some sharing...this is an old idea but i had to bounce it around my own head before i actually shared it with the rest of the world. since semptember 11th is going to be stuck in everyones heads for such a long time why not go ahead and make it something along the lines of 'national heros day' or something similar. there were more heros that day than deaths and some of them were one and the same. no, i do not think george bush or
adolph rudolph giuliani were amounst them but that is a matter of opinion. it would also be nice to have a holiday celebrating people who are actually alive. do the same rules apply to holidays as what they have for postage stamps? yeah i know people died that day. i am all too aware of that fact, as we all are but that does not mean it can't be turn into some thing more positive then a 'war on terrorism'. as cynical as i am about all of this i am also very serious. for all practical purposes it would be more like independance day than veterns day. and people might actually remember what exactly it is about. for a few years at least.
now with that i have to figure out how to word it a little nicer so that i can offer the idea to my congressmen. yeah i do actually write them occassionally, just to say hi and keep them on their toes. gotta stay on that list somehow. and damn that just seems a little too 'up with people'.
some notes...i think the movie reviews are going to be a regular featurette from here on. occassionally they will be joined by book and music reviews. my opinion doesn't just count, it's the only one that matters. right? maybe i should review the quality of mp3 downloads and thus pointing people in the direction of where they can get them legally even. even though the riaa would like you to believe that everything in that format is against the law and going to get you sued. fuck that and fuck them. fuck it all you fucking little brats. i've been writing reviews for 15+ years now and i still think every one of them sucks. too bad it hasn't stopped me.
if anyone has a pattern for making srunchies please share it. i know this is easy but i need some basic instructions to go by and and i cannot find one to save my life. not like i really want to do that anyway. something simple that i can do to get used to the sewing machine. an odd device that i have not used in some 20 years. never was good at it. one mre thing to relearn.
got to thinking about these household tips and i really think i need to get
mama2jude's permission to pillage her lj for her helpful money tips and add those to the page. i think it would make for a nice combination. i could just take them in the grand tradition of the web but hey she knows where i live.
my friend robert will be getting a little something special. we had not talked in some time and we had a nice little phone conversation in which he made a very direct point about something but from an angle i had never accounted for. i have to write something for him about that. once that is done i need to get a recent picture of him to combine with it. maybe i'll even frame the whole thing but i kind of doubt that. i also need to make some calls to some other people while i am at it.
on that note i think it is time to go find something to do until 9am when it will be possible for me to get more cigarettes. too bad that one thing only takes like 30 seconds or so. what the hell am i going to do when i quit?
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