The LJ mailer, that is.
We believe we’ve now found all the blockages for mail and over the next day you will be receiving the backlog of mail not delivered in the last couple of weeks.
Great. Nothing makes me feel quite like receiving a couple of weeks worth of old mail, all at once.
Except, perhaps, when The Corporate Trouble Ticket System reaches 77 tickets. I’m told that it can support triple digits, but I don’t want to see that happen.
It’s snowing gently. When I woke up this morning, there was already a frosting on nearly everything. There are still patches of asphalt that have melted off their allotted snow, but more is falling to cover them again. Soon, all will be white and quiet.
The cats are fascinated by the snow. We lit a fire in order to feel warmer while watching it.
I’m supposed to be asleep.
I had dinner at the nice vegetarian restaurant, came home and relaxed by making a fire and hanging out. Climbed into bed. One of us fell quickly and soundly asleep. The other gave it the college try for about an hour and is now sitting back out by the fire, waiting to get sleepy again.
Probably many factors involved here. I’m vaguely uncomfortable because my body has been just a bit “off” today, most likely a result of the Bojolais Neuvoux (and other wine chasers) from last night with
Anyway.
From CNN.com this morning:
Poll: Most doubt Bush has plan for Iraq victory
Why in the bloody hell would I care what most Americans think? Most Americans think that non-white people carry the mark of Cain! Most Americans think that it’s all in good fun to beat up the weakest kid in the room … just to make themselves feel less pathetic. Most Americans mirror the feelings of most humans: Fear, greed, lust, hypocrisy, and hatred.
They might as well dedicate a headline every day to saying “Yup, we’re still stupid!”
Worse, this feeds into the continuing delusion that popular beliefs have any bearing at all on objective reality. Let’s call it the “Peter Pan” theory. Under this theory, it actually matters how many children clap their hands as to whether or not Tinkerbell starts flying around again. It’s the same goddamn delusion that leads school boards to teach creationism (well, some people believe it … so it must be valid somehow)!
Who cares if anyone believes the crap that the administration is spewing?
From http://thepaincomics.com:
There seems, finally, to be some reluctant recognition even among Republicans that Iraq is a world-historical clusterfuck, a Class 5 shitstorm, a total quackmeyer. But, they counter, who knew? Who suspected, in 2002, before the invasion, that the “intelligence was flawed” [that they didn’t know what they were taking about], or that the administration’s “claims were exaggerated” [that they were lying]? Who could have known that an insurgency would arise, that the occupation would turn into such a nightmare?
Well, me, for one. And all my friends, actually. And also, come to think of it, the hundreds of thousands of other people who filled the streets and wrote letters to their elected representatives and local papers. It was always clear to me that the Bush administration was throwing up a smokescreen of whatever rationales they thought would work, and was stating adamantly as facts and certainties what were only suspicions.
Focusing on what people do or do not believe about this crap does nothing but distract from the actual issue of how many soldiers have died over there, and for what reason. I never believed their crap, I still don’t. Nothing short of congress growing a pair is going to stop this war, and every pair that congress has grown is firmly in the war-profiteering, slimy hands of the vice president and his henchmen.
But maybe, just maybe, if we all clap our hands and believe … maybe it’ll be different this time.
Ha.
I’m at Alewife early this morning. Funny how a two hour commute makes 9am “early”. On the other hand, I got a pile of stuff done on the train. Still, it’s quiet and I can already tell that it’s going to be a good day. Plus, I’m going to get free books. Free books are always good, even though they will, for the moment, just sit on or near the other books in the stack.
We have a working garbage disposal.
I finished running a 20A circuit from the breaker box to under the sink. Connected all the wires, turned things on, and it worked.
I’m deeply happy right now.
I’m about to embark on a forklift upgrade of my various personal web pages. What tools do people use for content management these days? My old pages are all just flat files in plain HTML. I flirted briefly with stylesheets, but it never caught fire.
Seems like the options are:
* Flat files. This sucks.
* Some sort of Wiki. My objection to this is mostly that it will look like a wiki, and wikis are ugly.
* A content management system. My objection is that most content management systems suck. My company uses something called “Metadot” which didn’t work out of the box on my home server.
What are the cool kids using for their personal web pages these days?
Go home team! Beat the away team! STFU! STFU!
Everyone should go see Anna Callahan perform at the Boston Harbor Hotel this Friday evening.