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The Mother of All Excuses.

Startling facts about Canada.

What is your deepest, darkest fear?
Submitted by [Susan].

Being asked my deepest, darkest feaAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

Yeah, well, it kinda rhymes - gimme a break!

Thanks to Bobavey for reminding me <ahem> that I said I would hook up my brand new 20.1 inch widescreen LG monitor this weekend! It's sooooooo nice to be rid of the piece of shit loaner I've been using since I got this new computer several years ago. I don't think I'll ever need a horizontal scroll bar again! Heck, my video card won't even go to as high a resolution as this baby allows. I think I'm going to have to actually break out the manual for a few settings, though.

20.1 inches baybee

Ah, it's a funny video just waiting to happen. Make that videos, because there are a lot of them out there. However, this one, snagged from CO, is the funniest one I've seen yet. I love the two-pawed method of cat numero one, and hearing the thumpthumpthump of the second cat. Literal LOLs here, folks.

I'm at work, and have been for a couple of hours now. The plan is/was to get some of the god-awful mess that is my desk cleaned up, then maybe pick up a few household necessities before meeting my mother and aunt for a Mother's day supper at a lovely restaurant near her place. A lot of the mess is because I cannot keep a neat desk to save my soul, but even more is stuff that I've been hanging onto because it's stuff Puppy would normally have taken to file/make binders/etc. I can do most of it, although I can't do any policy logging because only the admin assistants have that access. Have I mentioned we still have no prospects for a new admin and the office is down three and a half admins (don't ask)? They knew all of them were leaving, even if only temporarily, but did they look for help before this all happened? Pffftt - don't be silly. It's really quite maddening, and the couple of admins the office has left are beyond overloaded - one of them is LBA and I know she's ready to blow, and possibly quit. She would help me in a heartbeat but I just don't want to do that to her.

Anyway, here I sit, trying to be good. I finish off a few things, try to do some filing and binder-making, and all that fun stuff. Well, when I go to find binders and files that should already be made, I can't locate them. Were they ever even made? I know that Puppy had a really bad habit of picking up filing but then just putting it into a huge pile on her desk (no one used to believe me that she did that - now they're finding piles of their own filing they thought was done months ago). I got tired of following up with her months before she was canned, and I guess now I'm paying the price. How the fuck am I supposed to clear up my area when there's nowhere for any of it to go? I'm at a complete loss because I'm just going in circles.

Bah. I just had to take a few minutes to vent and try to breathe again. I think maybe it's time to go buy a pop out of the machine in the kitchen. That should give me the energy to get through another few hours of this bullshit.

Another news story. I remember reading about this family when their last child was born nine months ago (you do the math). Raise your hand if you're surprised the father's name is Jim Bob.

I'll take "How much longer until that asshat GWB leaves office?" for $600, Alex.

If you can't respect and honour the young folks who make up the majority of your fighting military and put their lives on the line for you, then who are you as a human being? I don't care what your views of war are, nor do mine figure into this, but other than the usual few bad apples, and of course their civilian leaders, you just don't shit on your protectors, they who are willing to put their lives on the line for yours. I know that stories of their medical facilities have been in the news, too - I'm not ignoring that or other discouraging military stories, I'm just pointing out this particular story as just one example of the US military's betrayal of those brave young folks who thought they were doing the right thing.

I was doing some noontime CNN.com reading and came across this story. Maybe there's more to it than I'm seeing, since, as I said, I am not American, and therefore not up on all the news to do with this subject, but the last lines of this story (GWB's negative response to the subject) made me sick, for way too many reasons to list.

another goodie from natalie dee this week:

Now-im-a-superhero

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by mah new'st hoodie:

Rule:  Summarize your life in a six word memoir, with optional photo illustration. Then tag six others.

What the hell is going on?

Tag: you six - yes, you!