Just got off the phone after a 40 minute call with an AT&T rep. They didn't budge one iota. Goddamn Apple won't let them, among other excused offered. I tell them that their 3g network is awful and I get calls dropped all over town and it feels like a 9600 baud modem when it does work. I tell them that I have been un-recommending AT&T service ( Read more... )

Ya know, the Daylight Saving Time switcharoo wouldn't be so difficult for me if I also didn't keep thinking it was April.

I still keep thinking that DST begins the first week of April, and since we're changing the clocks, therefore it is now April. Then it hits me that it's still early March.

It seems that Dick Cheney will be in a wheelchair today. He hurt himself moving boxes. When I heard that, I thought to myself, "What in the hell is the Vice President doing moving his own boxes?" Why didn't the moving crew take those with them when they packed up the rest of Cheney's stuff? Probably because those boxes weren't going on the ( Read more... )

Obama ought to invite the captain of Flight 1549 to the inauguration. As soon as he's sworn in, he should surprise the captain with the Presidential Medal of Honor or Freedom or whatever medal fits ( Read more... )

Yesterday at a family Christmas gathering, my dad said, "Hey son, I signed up on the web for this thing called Facebook. Have you heard of it?"

I'm still processing the ramifications of this. It's like reality shifted, just a little bit.

Happy Winter Solstice everybody. It's my favorite natural planetary event of the season because every day from here until June 2009 will be longer than the previous day.

It recently hit me that Christmas is a week away and I've only managed to buy one single gift so far. Yikes ( Read more... )

Got back from the Join the Impact protest at the Georgia State Capitol a while ago. There are some pics on my camera, but you'll just have to imagine them because I haven't pulled them from the camera yet.

I went with dturing and we both held up handmade signs that we improvised at the event. Saw gskreet and his partner, Bob Skreet, at the rally ( Read more... )

What's the best way to make an entire journal "friends only"? One of the things I am planning to do in the coming months is reduce my online public footprint. I've seen more than a couple of people have their online presence come back and bite them in the ass in some unexpected way or other, and it's time for me to start pulling my presence back ( Read more... )

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