595 posts from 2008

[CybrasEngel] he said next time she gets down on herself
[CybrasEngel] he's gonna say so when you're 30 call me and tell me what you've done, by then I'll be 45 and on my 3rd wife
[MiSi] 3rd wife?!
[CybrasEngel] that's what he said I just looked at him and laughed and told him yeah and they'll have taken all you owned too I suppose
[MiSi] the house, the car, the kids, the cat

[CybrasEngel] we're driving home
[CybrasEngel] and a guy on a motorcycle wizzed by
[CybrasEngel] and I talked about how ones who drive like that on motorcycles scare me
[CybrasEngel] because I don't wanna see them splat all over
[CybrasEngel] and he announces he knows ONE girl who rides one could I believe that
[CybrasEngel] and I say sure why not
[CybrasEngel] he said well he'd never seen women ride motorcycles til he met this one, he'd only seen them in pics but he's seen UFOs in pics too

I could be losing Daily Show and Colbert!
Viacom and Time Warner in a dispute that could mean we lose Viacom channels at 12:01.

Viacom has decided they should raise what they charge cable companies apparently because of how many of their networks are on TW's lineup, etc. 

TW says no they don't want to raise our bills, to cover the new charges, I guess?  Gotta say I agree with TW, they already charge us plenty and bad service at that ;) 

According to that story:

The channels that would be affected are: Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.

Ok of those networks I occasionally watch: Comedy Central, VH1, TV Land,  and very very rarely Nickelodeon (like once or twice a year I catch Sponge Bob).  And by occasionally I mean if they went bye bye I wouldn't notice.  I could catch clips of Daily Show and Colbert online.  TV Land is old stuff.  VH1 is guilty pleasure on weekends at times.  I think Viacom over estimates their worth here.  Except maybe for people with kids -- I bet they're hoping people with kids yell and scream over Nickelodeon.  So they're basically blackmailing us all into paying more. 

Brian's already been wondering if we can at some point get rid of cable all together and legally pay for just the shows we watch online but right now that's probably more expensive though maybe not,  network shows air free with commercials on their sites anymore.  I don't think MSNBC streams though.  I'd basically have to pay for True Blood and Ghosthunters, I think everything else I watch can be found free with commercials online (we want to be legit and support good stuff).

Rep. Bobby Rush (D. of Ill.)  pissed me off.  At the press conference about the appointment in Illinois... He broke out the "race card".   Apparently we have to accept Burris because he's the only black man capable of doing the job and with Obama leaving the Senate we have no blacks in the Senate.  Now this Burris gentleman seems legit and has a legit history in politics.  And I agree we NEED more diversity in politics.  But appointing a black man then bringing out another black man to say we have to agree with the appointment or oooh woah wait without Obama we have no blacks in the Senate so it'd be, basically, racist to deny this appointment?  That is sooo offensive to me.  I don't question this appointment because Burris is black. I think we need more women, people of colour, some gays would be nice in politics -- no I question this because the governor is more delusional that my username at this site is.  He should NOT be trusted to appointment anyone to anything. 

There's been talk that if there was a special election under the current political environment in Illinois a Dem can't win.  Sucks, but meh have a special election. 

Even if Burris is the greatest man to ever live, I'm not sure I'd trust anyone that the governor would appoint now and they'll be voting on issues, yes on behalf of Illinois but they can affect us all.  So let the people of Illinois decide not some guy who seems a little out of touch with what is going on and who is being investigated with a crime that is one of the worst violations of trust a politician could possibly commit.  Who would even accept an appointment he'd offer?  After saying he should step down, etc?  Are they ALL nuts in Illinois? 

Yup, after being arrested, while they try to impeach him, Governor Blagojevich is holding a press conference today to announce he's appointing former state Attorney General Roland Burris to Obama's seat. 

His own lawyer said recently that there would be no point in Blagojevich naming someone to the Senate because leaders there would reject his appointment.

The GOP's White Supremacy.  I was just thinking, that sending out a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" maybe isn't the way to improve the image of the party.  Some of them really learned nothing from this last election.  

So news has been slow, repeat season on tv, etc. 

I just finished reading  High Wizardry  and will start From Dead to Worse tomorrow (I wouldn't let myself start it until I finished High Wizardry, no matter how much I wanted to read From Dead to Worse as I'd already started High Wizardry)....

But Brian and myself have been watching Voyagers! .  He'd never heard of it, but it was a show my whole family watched when I was a kid.  So we're watching an episode last night and Brian announced "wonder what happened to them?"  and I asked him "huh? who?"  He meant the two actors.  Well I had already heard that  the younger one (Meeno Peluce aka Punky Brewster's real life brother) had pretty much left Hollywood, but hmm the older one, ?  Good question.  So I looked him (Jon-Erik Hexum) up on IMDB.  Wow.  Seems he died not long after Voyagers! ended, on the set of another show when he put a prop gun to his head and pulled the trigger.  How sad.  I asked mom if she remembered the show, she did.  She didn't remember hearing of his death though.  She reminded me Hollywood's drama wasn't always so public.  I guess not if something like this wasn't so public that she'd remember.  I can see why I didn't hear of it, I was into the show he was on and not say I dunno the news at that age.  But wow.  He saved lives being a organ donor.  Kind of glad stuff wasn't so in your face overhyped big news back then as it is today, that would have been really shocking when I was a kid.  As for the show?  Brian told me tonight that while he's having fun teasing how cheesy the show is (hey it was the 80s), he's actually liking it as it IS a good show.  And I do beieve he plans on making bat's breath his own new catch phrase ;) lol  I totally didn't remember that, it's been so long since I've seen this show.  I'm loving it all over though.

As for me, still smelling phantoms.  Brian was convinced the neighbor is just running heater as it's been freaking cold for here and that it was burning dust and I was smelling that.  But our neighbor said nope, hasn't turned his heater on at all.  I smell it away from home too but worse at home, then again at home more so...  Brian now thinks I'm smelling real stuff and interpreting it wrong, which is both possible and wonky as I smell some stuff fine and some other stuff not at all or have to struggle to smell then like around the water heater closet I smell something weird (not gas, it just smells "funny", we think since it's basically impossible to get in there and clean the whole closet as the heater takes it all up and these apartments collect dust like mad and we could only clean the front it's heated some dust we couldn't reach to clean).  But I randomly smell oranges and burning lately.  Then again Brian also woke me up scared because I was breathing so poorly and loudly he had to make sure I was ok, he described it as both asthma attack sounds and darth vader breathing and I did wake up today with my nose in pain.  So maybe this time phantoms are sinus issues as it's lasting longer than the usual few seconds and happening in certain areas more than others so maybe allergies too.  Dunno but it makes life a pain in the ass and started when it got cold so it's nice that tonight seems like it's trying to get warmer again.  It appears to be a combination of the usual phantom smells coming and going and a possible cold / sinus thing at the same time more consistently.  Life isn't so fun at the moment because of it.  Smell is kind of nice when it works right.  When it doesn't at then when you get phantoms mixed in with a sick broken sense of smell too?  Well it makes you just crazy.

I got this message from Keegan on MySpace today:

Santa is real I did a test I looked up at my roof and said santa if you are real I take it back if you are real I want a bones u.b. funkey this year.And when I looked in my stocking I find the u.b. funkey right in my stocking.

Apparently he asked for that toy at the last minute.  As you know from my previous posts, Portland has had some weather.  So his grandma and mom had to tell him too bad Keegan, you asked too late, we're not running out to buy you anything, roads aren't safe, grandma can't even get to work.   Santa, it seems, heard him ;)

As expected, I got From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8)  (it was the only thing I asked for).  But Brian surprised me and also got me Wario Land: Shake It!.  Mom sent me slippers, Supergirl stickers (one on my laptop and the rest are covering my art portfolio book thingie), a really pretty angel shadow box thingie that I'd take a picture of but we live in a dinky apartment and so it's already stored away for when we move and get shelves in the next apartment to display stuff like that), a bunch of Eeyore stuff from pencils and pens to a nightlight to a pez dispenser to a coffee mug to  a GIANT stuffed Eeyore,  a superman straw cup, another angel, chocolates, dried cuttlefish (one of my fave snacks I never buy).

Think that covers it all?  If I forgot anything mom, sorry! heh.  Silly woman, I swear you forgot how small our apartment is, but it's all very cool I just can't display the pretty stuff until we move and have room for shelves.   Oh and Brian is outside with his toy now.   See mom thought getting Brian a remote control flying copter err hover uhh something was a good idea, I insisted it goes to work so he tortures his coworkers and not me with it.  He's like year we have a big stage there. 

Oh and we went to Starbucks this morning, since they were working on Christmas, I reminded Brian to take cash to tip the poor souls stuck there today.  He did, and tipped them $20.  As we pulled up I pointed across the street.  There's a small shopping center and apartments.  At the apartments there was a car that looked totaled -- half in the red zone with what I can describe only as wreck remnants in the road around it.  Brian was concerned.  It didn't look like any attempt to move it had been made since it was still in the red zone. Brian went over to make sure no one was in the car.  Nope.  Others walking by were looking around too.  It looks like someone hit the car, just like sideswiped it, and left it there.  But no one knew whose car it was.  I suspect that won't be a Merry Christmas.