Update.

Okay. Just to let people know: I haven't been blogging due to lack of ideas or experiences, but due to computer access. Hopefully that will be remedied soon and the deluge of thoughts, reviews, and experiences will be let loose.

So bear with me. I'll be back soon...I hope. =)
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I think yiddish has a word for this...

So, I realize that it's been a long while since I've graced you all with my presence.  And that's just going to have to be okay.  I've been having to put up with the most obnoxious breed of human being imaginable.  Yes, I'm talking about the car thief.

Just to make sure that you're all on the same page: since I was last here I have 1) had some sort of bronchitis-like illness (which I can't go to the doctor for because I lack insurance coverage and the money to pay for drugs), 2) Had my 95(93) (we were never really quite sure of the year of my car) Buick Century (yes, a Buick Century) stolen, and not recovered, 3) Bought a new car (which caused me to swallow yet more pride, mmm tasty), 4) Accrued about 9k in debt 6 months after filing for bankruptcy. (Just what I wanted to do), and last but not least 5) I haven't managed to piss anyone at my current job off yet, and made it past the 3 month mark.  Which garners me a $0.25 raise, and PTO (Paid time off).  Which is something I've never had before.  The PTO I mean.

So needless to say, I'm kinda [insert appropriate melancholy adjective feeling here].  I also think that car thieves should be shot in the knees and run over.

And before you ask if the police (gigglesnort) have found my vehicle, don't.  It's sort of a sore point in all of this.  Because, the police response to this has been...well...practically nonexistent.  Don't get me wrong, I understand that I live in a metro/urban area and there are murders and drug deals and other crimes that happen and take precedence.

But it seems to me that in this economy, when people are downsizing their budgets and such that automobile theft would be taken more seriously because people are becoming 1 car families.  Especially families with limited income.  While I did get a new car, thanks primarily to J (my roommate, landlord, and current incarnate guardian angel) that doesn't solve the bigger problem of police attention to grand theft auto (a felony might I add).

I also learned something interesting about the current Milwaukee Police Chief's policy regarding theft is that they don't even bother sending a squad unless the value of the stolen objects exceeds $3000.  I have 2 problems with this currently.  First, who keeps a record of the price of their valuables handy.  I know I do.  So if our place got robbed, I'd be able to give the police the exact price of every object that was stolen and its current depreciated value.  [/sarcasm] Second, a car that costs less than 3000 dollars could be 1 families only source of transportation to and from employment and other places.  So perhaps a little policy revision is in order, methinks.

So I came across this song/video in my pro-homosexuality searches.  Be warned that it's a touch vulgar so probably not work appropriate. 






I've had this song in my head for the last 4 days.  It's a catchy little ditty.  And because it's apparently from the UK, their censors are a little more lax.  The name of the song is probably what you think it is.  But it has another name that it goes by "Guess Who Batman" by British artist Lily Allen.

Drought continues

Not that I'm talking about actual lack of rain, but the lack of inspiration/motivation.  It always seems to strike me at this time of the year.  I think it's the weather.  Which is not to say that I don't have anything to say or that I'm not thinking about anything, but rather that I lack the motivation to organize my thoughts/musings into any sort of a coherent form.

Also, can I just say that catching some sort of illness in the warm weather of summer absolutely sucks (and not in the good fun way).  I've been battling some sort of a throat/sinus drainage thing for a couple days now and I have to say that I think it's completely ill timed.

So, without much more to say (and at the risk of already sounding rather "babble-ish") I'll end here and hope for the inspiration/motivation storm to come soon.  Because I'm sick and tired of writing blogs that do nothing but say that I have nothing to write about.  Blah.

Does anyone know where my muse has gone?

There are a lot of things to blog about, and even more things for me to comment on, but apparently every summer my muse decides to take a vacation and leaves me bereft of inspiration and motivation.  Thus I don't blog, and when I do it's simply to give excuses as to why I'm not blogging.

I don't deal with heat well, and it's been humid and hot here the last couple days.  So much so that I felt well into "the dog days of summer" which we haven't even hit yet, technically.

So while the whole world goes to pot (or crude depending on where you are and what news you listen to) I'm just going to sit back and watch it.

Have fun!

Le Sigh

So I had hoped that yesterday would be the blog day, but alas I was mistaken.  Don't worry, the blog is there, percolating in my head, and it's taking awhile to get to the point where it's more than just a jumble of incoherent thoughts that have something in common.  Which is my problem.  But let me tell you, it'll be good. 

Hrm, I did find something interesting though, the other day by listening to the Progressive Talk Radio on Green 960 out of San Fransisco.  Link here.  Apparently there was a raid on a Texas gay bar, last year.  IN 2009!  This is the freaking new millennium people, why are we still standing for this.  But I guess it could only happen in the south.  (see previous posts for various and sundry opinions regarding the south).  Not only did they raid the bar, they did it on the 40th anniversary of the raid on the Stonewall Inn in NYC, and you'll notice a lack of media coverage, even a year later.  And all I can ask is why?

For links to the story:

Seattle Gay News

Georgia Liberal (they have those there?)

Huffington Post

Dallas/Fort Worth local news

So that's all I've got for you today, as laundry needs to be done before I head off to work.  Being an adult stinks.  I have no idea why children want to grow up so fast.  Oh wait...yeah I do.

I'm playing hooky/ey/ie

So today was not the prolific blogging day that I had hoped it would be.  I don't know.  Usually my weekends are sort of fulfilling, but today/this weekend, I've just felt that my me-time hasn't been as revitalizing as it should be.  Ergo, no huge blog about politics and religious issues today, but don't fret, the issues that I want to write about are still there.

Woke up Wednesday to discover that one of my email accounts had been hacked.  Needless to say that I'm very upset with hackers and think they need to be dealt with in a painful and time consuming manner.


Apparently there are multiple ways to spell the phrase used in the title of the blog for today.  And whilst searching for the correct way to spell the phrase I happened across this (which English-y people should like).  Homophone.com which is a supposedly complete list of all homophones.

So there, vittles for you all.  Have a good rest of your weekend.

See what happens when I miss a post

I awoke this morning to find that the email associated with my blog had been hacked and disabled, and the email was associated with my blog, so that was disabled too.  Needless to say that it was not a good morning for me.

I've been reading The Cost of Discipleship (see link in previous post) and there's some pretty thought provoking things in there (really, thought provoking things in a religious text, shocking, I know!) which I was going to blog about yesterday, but my day was consumed with laundry, food, reading up on a new RPG that I'm going to be running, getting the ballpark figure of the new computer, and a little gaming. 

Kinda like an actual day off.  Which I kinda needed.  Anyway, I'm not really doing anything on Saturday, so look for the new blog then.  See ya!