Domestic Geek

I got into it this morning with this woman at work about the government. I listen to Rush Limbaugh, do you think I'm going to be sympathetic to people who are upset about possibly losing government-funded daycare? Where does this damn entitlement feeling come from? I'm so SICK and TIRED of whiny-assed people moaning about the government not giving them enough... (fill in the blank). I'm tired of hearing about greedy corporations not paying enough. Listen, people. There is no magical, unending source of funds called "The Government". The government is YOU and YOUR FRIENDS and NEIGHBORS. Corporations are essentially YOU, YOUR FRIENDS and YOUR NEIGHBORS. All you're doing when you take "government" money is stealing from your friends and neighbors who happen to make more money than you (probably through their own hard work and sacrifice). Get off your lazy asses and work for what you want instead of taking from "the government". You'll feel better about yourself. I know I will.

Is it weird that one of my favorite sandwiches is cheese, butter and dill pickles? I'm having one now. It's soooo good.

When I get rich and am building my dream house, it is going to have one of these!

I have a love/hate relationship with technology.

A couple of months ago, Marcus bought an Apple AirPort basestation. He bought me a SMC wireless card for my Sony Vaio. After much aggravation and web-searching, we discovered that support for my current OS installation (Win 2000) totally sucked. Basically, it wasn't going to work, so he returned the card. I told him not to worry about getting me another one right away.

Well, now that I've seen Marcus working on his laptop from all over the house and after he was surfing from outside yesterday, I decided I wanted to try again. We went to CompUsa and we chose a Belkin card this time. ARGH!!! I swear, what a pain. Marcus got it all set up and again, it wouldn't work like it was supposed to. We fiddled with the damn thing for four hours. It actually worked for a sum total of two minutes. I ended up having to set a static IP address on my laptop because it wouldn't get one through DHCP. While in the process of turning off my Zone Alarm, it decided it didn't want to work anymore. *sigh* I tried reinstalling, rebooting, reconfiguring, etc. Nothing. This morning, though, I boot up and it's working again. In fact, I'm on the web via the card right now. I'll give it most of the afternoon to see if it behaves itself or it is going back to the store, too. If it does crap out, I'll give the Linksys card a try. If that doesn't work, I'm done. I'll just be tethered to the network until I can afford to get myself an Apple Powerbook.

I do need a new battery for the old laptop. My current one doesn't hold a charge for more than a half hour. I had no idea they were so expensive! Even on eBay, I'll have to drop $100. That's a purchase that will have to wait. Especially since I will have to get my car repaired soon. One of my CV joints started clicking this weekend. Yippee.

I never watch the MTV movie awards because I usually find the behaviour boorish. Our friend Mike was relating to us the opening sequence yesterday, so I set the PVR to get it. It was pretty funny. It was this whole Matrix takeoff thing with show hosts Justin Timberlake and Seann William Scott. Since MTV will show this over and over and over and over, check it out.

Well, Marcus and Mike went to see "The Matrix Reloaded: The IMAX Experience" tonight. I couldn't go because I was working. Figures that we finally got busy (due to the rain, I think) when I could be going out on a Friday night. Oh, well. At least the tips were generous this evening. It would've totally sucked to have missed going out and not made any money.

Well, I'd better get to bed. There'll be a lot of dough to make in the morning. I'm NOT looking forward to that.