I just received my Non-Offensive, Non-Denominational, Non-Exclusionary Holiday Season-Day gift from applepieisgood. And it is thus!


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My youngest sister just got done participating in the Susan G. Komen breast cancer 3-day event, and I was glad to be able to meet her at the finish line. In light of her accomplishment, applepieisgood and I have decided to participate in our own fundraising and walking around event for another set of big killers, heart disease and stroke. She and I signed up for ( Read more... )

I attempted this morning to view the Leonid meteor shower, but failed miserably due to my location. Even in Mesa, Arizona located on the edge of the main urban mass of Phoenix, it was too damn bright for me to make out all but a few flashes of light (which rather than being actual meteors, were most likely airplanes, satellites, hallucinations, ( Read more... )

I haven't updated here in a while, mostly because what's going on in my life right now isn't all that interesting. But for wont of not neglecting my el jay for too long, I decided to type it up anyways!

Work has become more stressful as of late. For you see, my company's largest customer is Ritz Camera, providing some 70 percent of our work. And ( Read more... )

Remember the good old days when one could just download or copy from media a program and it would just be there? You'd open the folder you just downloaded or copied, and there would be the .exe file. You'd click it, and the program you intended to run just ran ( Read more... )

The big topic du jour right now is health care reform. And what follows are a few of my thoughts and observations on the health care reform debate overall. I will try to avoid any pointlessly political overtones, since it's too easy, just generates anger and shock value and usually goes nowhere but to distract from real and meaningful dialogue ( Read more... )

Apparently my body has been forcing me to catch up on sleep I've been missing out on for the past few weeks. This is the second day in a row that I meant to take an hour-long nap and ended up sleeping the whole night through. Last night, I got home at 6:30, went to sleep at 8, and woke up at 6:45 in the morning. So yeah ( Read more... )

The text of Obama's speech to schoolchildren tomorrow (today)Really? All you hardcore uber-neo-conservatives who receive your marching orders from Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are making such a big stink about this? A message encouraging children to work hard and do well in school so that they may do well in life is really that subversive and evil ( Read more... )

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I don't know what's more funny about Elvis' habit of shooting the TV: the simple notion that he would do it (as characterized in The Simpsons, for example), or the realization that he probably actually did it several times. Either way, I can't help but laugh. But anyways...

This past weekend was quite a weekend, and what a weekend it was ( Read more... )