Annnd… I’m off to work!
Vroom!
Protected:
some choice sound bites from the reparations experts., found at this well-written entry.
I certainly agree with –
“And given the hate-filled, divisive rhetoric espoused at Saturday’s rally (none of which is new), I strongly oppose the reparations movement, as it only serves to salt the wounds of division between blacks and whites in America as opposed to healing them. Such divisiveness must be opposed, and to hell with those who are bent on keeping blacks shackled to a blinding mindset of hate and supremacy in the misguided quest for another government handout.
Yes, slavery is a blemish upon this country that will never be erased nor denied. No sum of money will ever make it disappear or change the course of history. The anger and rage being fomented for reparations would best be applied to confronting present-day black-on-black slavery taking place in African nations such as Sudan and Mauritania, or pressuring the Arab world to free their slaves.
Today, black Americans are free. We are free to come and go as we please, live where we want, be educated in the schools and colleges of our own choosing, and excel as high as we want to in any profession that we choose. The only limitations out there are the ones we set for ourselves.
Blacks are leaders in academia, government, industry, the arts, entertainment, science, medicine, and athletics. To paraphrase James Brown, the successful ones didn’t wait for anyone to give them anything. They took advantage of open doors (or opened those doors on their own initiative) and got it for themselves. It would be a slap in the face to many of those who sacrificed, worked hard, and overcame the odds to suggest that shaking down the government some more would have cured the ills of the past.”
Next time I go to the store, I’m going to get some cake mix. I’m in the mood for yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
Or cupcakes.
holy cow… tarpo put me on to this.. very addictive. Something therapeutic about pushing a stick man down stairs. the camera angles are evil!
my best score is 69,580. Top online real score 835,651.
Protected: made friends-only so my coworkers don’t see.
I’m fresh off the phone with Dave. He’s got some sort of Mac Virus that’s changing all of this data to Pc format, or some such. I really couldn’t help him out too much… he’s using os 9ish, and my strengths are really on Unix & Windows type machines.
First rule of business… *back up your data files regularly*.
I think that he’ll be ok, but has a few hours of fix-up ahead of him…. no envy here.
I’m glad that B-boy is doing well…I was concerned about his health… speaking of which, my brother’s getting better, but slowly. He’s been cutting back on the smokes… one pack every three days, rather than a pack a day… I hope that he can shave it down to removing it.
Looks like he’s kicking his roommate out… something like the fourth month in a row he couldn’t pull his side of the rent. (The roomie can go live with his mom, until he gets his act together). I agree with the bro’s decision… the roomie’s not landing in the street.
I’m not looking forward to the anniversary of Sept 11… I fear it’ll be a big political bit of noise. I know that I had enough trouble the first time around.
I forgot to mention earlier that at the toy store, aside from the recorder, I picked up a little 25mm scale play set with a police station, fire station, parking garage, a few civilians to go with the police and firemen, a fountain with a horse stature in the middle, a couple of trees, assorted vehicles including a paddy wagon, helicopter, fire engine, and a little train engine and tanker car. Cheap for $10. (Marked down from $15) Newton had a field day with all the twist-ties that came with… and likes to sit inside the fresh cardboard box.
By the way… Yahoo maps doesn’t do the best route to the local bookstore…purple is the path that they choose… flashing red is mine. As an added bonus, I get to ride through the park, wave at the squirrels, and watch kids practice soccer. The other route goes far out of its way… I’d at least think that the path logic would go to 6th, and shoot straight north. Fewer lights, more direct route. image cut to spare folks not wanting to see a flashing pic.
Nice, illuminating and silly talk with my sweetheart, ranging from ylang ylang, nation of islam, and ringworm.
now, it’s time for a little recorder practice and sleep.
nighters, dear journal.
I got my recorder!
Yay!
Dorky me played yankee doodle on the way home.
The Recorder, guitar and piano are all “c” instruments, so the compliment one another nicely. 🙂 I hope to play a duet with my sweetie on guitar sometime soon.
I wouldn’t mind doing Gigue in G with her…(midi link) Yeah, it’s Handel… I dig his stuff. Pretty complex work.. I’d have to practice it for a while to get the flipper-notes right.
see also – Courante #3 and Courante #11
Going to play some more. until later, dear journal.
On my formative years… Saturday mornings when I was seven.
I was *always* torn at 11ish… Ark II vs. Krofft supershow vs. Land of the Lost.
Ark II had a talking chimp.
Krofft – the colors! the spandex! the bay city rollers. I remember seeing them singing Saturday night.
Land of the Lost… Sleestaks and Dinosaurs. I hated the humans on the show, though. I sided with the reptiles.
Possibly Scotto’s secret origin?
The best list of possible band names ever.
This makes me think of sweetalyssm‘s puppyfrog. Good plan, crab of ineffable wisdom!
oh, before I go to bed…
Arnold Schwarzenegger is… um… selling something… maybe?
It’s got Arnold, it’s in Japanese, and I think at the end he’s turned into some sort of Mighty Morphin’ Power Ranger…he sure seems happy about it.
My day, in chunks, told from newest to oldest.
Nigh Nigh.
Going to bed.
Swiss cheese.
Battle damaged black cat (he’s ok)
Everyone hates the Finn
Wendy’s Frosty and Baked Tater with Chives
The Finn gets catty about Sappho
McDonald’s hash browns & Orange Juice
Bike ride
More Newtie Lovin’
Wake up
Sunrise
Newtie Lovin’
Dreams about my Sweetie Belly dancing
Lappie is now 2000. Hooray! much better than “WinMe”. all of his drivers are working… I just have to get big brain twiddled so that Lappie can share big brain’s internet, files and printing. The Laptop didn’t like the 2000 drivers too much… fortunately I had a crack team of netsurfers downloading video, modem, and assorted other OS pieces for me. 🙂
I should have Big brain home and back online tomorrow night…. I’m guessing that maybe 30 minutes more of work will complete the little remainder.
Thinking about my sweetheart, and hoping that she’s having the most pleasant of dreams. I’m going to join her in snoozetown shortly.
Goodnight, dear journal.
“Nought may endure but Mutability.”
–Percy Bysshe Shelley
Okie… taking apart big brain for the move to work shortly…
I’m a little nervous about taking them both to work, just because it’s all of my techno-loot… I’d hate to lose my online abilities from home for too long. (Hopefully, both will make it home in one piece tonight.)
Unhappy dreams last night… but I’m happy to have awakened to the discovery that they were just dreams. I don’t like losing people that I love.
Ugh…
Stinky day at work, but I’m home now.
Upside, I saw Cathi and Eryn at the Bus stop while waiting to take my ride to work… got invited to a reggae show tonight, but I had to work too late. It’s still nice to get the offer.
I’m bringing my laptop & big brain to work tomorrow… Going to reformat the laptop, and find proper drivers for big brain… then set up a crossover cable between the two. Lappie is going to go over to windows 2000, to match the box.
I may put red hat on the tall box, too… make it a dual-boot again. Depends on how much time is available… It looks like it’ll be a slow day though, so I think it’ll be okay.
Time to undress, unwind, and play confuse-a-cat. Hmm.. palm synched entry didn’t fly in.
Here’s a little-baby mod for the grotto index.. I’m still not totally happy with it. Once I settle on colors and design, it’ll get re-implemented across the board.