Where's the Beef?

So it's been a while. I've been busy. It's been a long few weeks. I'm adjusting to a new job, which I love. Plus I'm also doing some work on the side with web design and SQL work. Nothing to write home about. Not only that my wife has been harrassing me to redecorate the house. Being a man, I'm not sure what's wrong with the current state of the decoration in my house, but she's got this bug up her butt to get things re-done over the summer.

Good for her, but keep me out of it. I'm too anal retentive about certain things to make a good interior decorator. For one, I have to have things symmetrical. Anything that isn't balanced in my house bugs me to no end until I fix it. It's not a feng-shui thing. I could care less whether my feng and my shui are copasetic or not, it's just a matter of balance.

Second, I hate things at funny angles. I used to work at a furniture store that had decorators who insisted on putting bed at odd angles from the corner of a room. That sort of thing makes my skin crawl. Call me crazy, but I get uncomfortable around things like that. Yes, I know it's insane, but that's how I am.

Speaking of insane, has everyone in California lost their minds? I mean for a criminal it's paradise, if you are wealthy, famous and a resident of California, you have carte blanche to rape/kill/maim/molest until you are blue in the face. I've never seen such degeneracy as I do out there. I need say no more on that subject.

And finally, has the Bush family lost it's mind? Threatening to get rid of the filibuster rule to get the judicial nominations pushed through, and now Jeb wanting to re-open the investigation into Terri Schiavo's case? When did our leaders become such namby-pamby whiny sissies when they don't get their way? I'm embarrassed to see this kind of political maneuvering from the highest offices in the land. Yes, I'm not totally blind to the fact that IT HAPPENS, but for Pete's sake, try a little harder to hide it. I am an ardent supporter of Bush's handling of Iraq and our troops, but I'm very disillusioned with not so much his other policies, but his shoving them down our throats. But then, as a second term President, he's got nothing to lose. Idiots all of them.

Why do women never listen?

Is it just me or all women deaf to men? Do we speak in a decibel range women don't naturally hear? Memo to all women: We're not all idiots or imcompetents, some of us actually know what we're talking about. Granted a large portion of men in this world suck as human beings (my dad being one of them....too stubborn to admit he's wrong and too wrapped up in his 'macho-ness') but there are those of us genuinely good guys, you know the ones all you females think are gay, that actually do care and listen and offer help when it's asked for.

But there are those of you who insist we know SQUAT and refuse to even consider that we might, for once, be right. Never mind it may never happen again, it WILL NEVER happen.

And you wonder why we never talk.

Whoa is this cool or what?

So here I am. Back again. Started my new job and man is it cool! I get to work for the government, but besides that I get my own Internet2 node. Woo hoo. I am beside myself thinking of all the bandwidth I have now. But you don't really want to hear about that do you? I didn't think so. Like I said, my life is boring as hell. I watched one of my nephews get married this weekend. There's nothing more classy than the Maid of Honor sporting a HUGE barbed wire tattoo on her arm. You just have to love rednecks. 'Them's good people!' Geez. Get some makeup for that you skanky ho. It was an outdoor wedding and the 'you may now kiss the bride' was interrupted by a very well mannered neighbor driving his big rig down the street not 40 feet from the wedding. You just have to love that. Hell, they should have just had a rodeo while they were at it.

Even though I'm from the South, I hate rednecks. There's nothing worse to me than someone who deliberately keeps themselves ignorant because it's not cool to be smart. Well, buck up, boys cuz all the plant jobs are headed to Asia and unless you speak Mandarin (which requires a certain amount of brains) you had better learn 'do you want fries with that?' in a hurry. Idiots and morons, the lot of them.