( It's under the cut... )

So, Teeka just pointed out this whitehouse press release in which our idiotic president decided that celebration of pagan holidays be damned, May 1 is now gonna be "Loyalty Day" in the U.S.

After reading through the press release my initial reactions are:

• So what exactly are we supposed to be celebrating on July 4th?
• Does "Loyalty Day" stike anyone ( Read more... )

I'm going to make this entry public, just because... well... it's pretty much public information anyway, and I do want people who aren't on my friends list to be able to view the entry, too.

Anyway, without further ado, here's my ( uber-long AFF 2007 Con Report. )

Just FYI, from here on I intend to make most of my journal updates that have any kind of personal information in them friends-only. This is not because of any kind of motivating event or other er... nasty things happening. (And I don't really want to wait for something nasty to happen to become the motivational force behind this decision ( Read more... )

So... last night Teeka and I were up much later than we should have been finishing out a long quest sequence in an instance in World of Warcraft with some guildies. I didn't get to sleep until about 2:00am; But that's another matter ( Read more... )

( Jam it in, Baby! )

So...

In the last couple days, Teekachu and later slysquirrel made reference to this LJ post lambasting the Salvation Army. (Read the post if you want to see why, but they make good arguments, and the few places I've looked to verify the facts seem to corroborate most of the claims made in said entry: It appears the Salvation Army is a proselytizing church ( Read more... )

Yay for semi-frequent LJ updates, eh!

...

Well, Ok, frequent for me.

So, starting from about where I left off last time...

( Thanksgiving report )

So ( Read more... )

( EDIT: Given the size of this entry, I should probably lj-cut it, eh... )