Dear Mr. McCain ( Read more... )

It's getting harder and harder to not be discouraged by the course the USA is on. I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't start stacking up on sugar and nylons and storing my savings under the mattress. Seriously.

Wanna get pissed off? Read this:http://thinkprogress

Okay, here's the deal. I have lots of movies, etc in AVI format sitting on my computer. I want to burn them onto DVDs and get them off there. What is the best software/program to make this possible?? I am willing to pay for a good one that's easy to use.

Help!!!???

I wasn't able to get home from work early enough to pick up my Aaron Eckart movies from the library. That's a bummer. However, the countryside I was driving in was so gorgeously sunny and pastoral it nearly makes up for it, including the 'Amish Quarter Horses' sign with the electric horse fence (wtf?).

Well this has been an interesting day! Asked my husband to go rummage sale-ing with me this morning and he went! That was fun. But I've been somewhat obsessed with perusing Petfinder lately, on a quest for the perfect cat. This is sometimes what I do to take my mind of a loss and we lost two cats within a two week period here ( Read more... )

*Standing ovation*

Way to go, Hillary!

The Clintons just gained back a HUGE amount of respect in my eyes and it feels good. I don't like disliking them. I defended Bill to the bitter end during his presidency, after all. I adored him. God, politics is an ugly business.

Excellent speech, Michelle! *claps*

And already my kids are whining about the convention. "It's interrupting CSI!" declares my oldest, in horror. Poor baby.

My crappy local weekly newspaper only had two editorials in it this week. One was a rant about the scourge of America that is Keith Olbermann and the other was about how Obama has no experience in anything, especially not war, and so he can't lead our country.

Why do I live here again?

Though I have to admit that Keith has been a bit intense even ( Read more... )

*avoids all seriousness*

If I buy one of those 80GB iPods, does anyone know of a free/cheap program I can get to help convert my DVDs into a format that I can upload to it? Please?

Saw 'The Dark Knight' yesterday at a matinee cuz I'm scared of clowns

I smell a posthumus Oscar.

Also... is there Bruce Wayne/Harvey Dent slash in the world? If not, there should be. Seriously. Please?