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I'm trying to blog more often. One of those resolution type things. So today you get to read about me cleaning out my email inbox because I lead a rich full life. It's not that I never start to file or delete things. I just don't finish. There was stuff on page 2 (you can only get 50 items per page) that was, like, two years old. Kind of makes me wonder why I bother. Why don't I just leave it all in my inbox. I'm the only one who sees it. It's not like people are going to stumble into my inbox as they are surfing the web like Goldilocks and say, "My what a big pile of unsorted crap you have, Grandma." And yes I just mixed fairy tales. Anyway, it's not like I find myself going back to look for old emails, at least not usually, but now I have a nice clean, empty inbox, dammit.

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One of my young employees was raving about some recent crappy movies and suggesting that the actors therein were the epitome of all things funny. Or he would if he knew what the word 'epitome' meant. Well, I felt that such an erroneous statement could not go unchallenged. Long story short - he didn't know who either Lewis Black or George Carlin were. I guess I can understand Black, but Carlin? Really?

What do they teach kids these days?

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Inauguration Day

I got up early (read: before 11am) to watch coverage of Obama's inauguration today. Not gonna lie here, it was a little emotional. And it is so, so nice to have a president who, when he speaks, I don't have to be restrained from stabbing myself in the brain with the closest object at hand. You know someone who isn't a complete gibbering ape representing our country to the rest of the world. 'Scuse me, a complete gibbering ape puppet mastered by satan's long lost 3rd cousin.

Anyway, Julia, her husband, our good friend Eleanor and I had a little champagne and pizza party to celebrate. We toasted such things as "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out...you know who you are." Even my roommate, republican though he is, joined us in some friendly discussion.

I liked Obama's inaugural speech. Some of the pundits seemed unhappy with it, but I think that they were just disappointed that it wasn't full of glib phrases they could sound bite. Guess that's just that whole speaking in full sentences and paragraphs thing, not sputtering sentence fragments at a much abused press corps. It was exactly what I wanted to hear, honestly, and it has given me a small measure of that one thing I've been holding back, hope. I can only hope that this really is the turning point. I really want to believe that the change and evolution that this country so desperately needs. But deep down I am a realist, and the Cynic in my head has had a few things to say. So we'll see. We'll see.

Oh, and as for the 'boos' when cheney and bush were announced at the inauguration...I would say that yes, normally, this would have been out of line at an event that celebrates the peaceful, bloodless transfer of power from one president to the next (even if they are from opposite ideologies) in one of the world's leading countries, and that the outgoing president and vice-president should be granted a departure full of dignity in honor of the work they have done for the country, etc...however...however...I think these d-bags might have, uh, earned this little bit of infamy.

Cheers.

I like the young kid they have on the late shift at the weather channel. It seems that they've left him to do the weather all on his own, and he's just sort of prattling on and rambling off on tangents. I hope he doesn't get in trouble, it's sort of charming.

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I picked up my new glasses today, so for the first time in years I have glasses of a proper perscription. It's weird. I haven't bothered to wear glasses in so long. I'm unused to having to move my head instead of just my eyes, but it's coming back.

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The temperature never got above zero today. I know it's just a number, but it is a psychologically significant number.

Too cold to blog

Mark this day down. I said it was cold.

And if I said it you know everybody else probably thinks that hell is freezing over. Given the temperatures outside they probably believe it. Right now it's around -15F (-26C) degrees , so with the wind (because you know it's always windy here in the beege) the wind chill is about 40 degrees below zero, and -40 is -40 whether your in Fahrenheit or Celsius and damn cold no matter what. At least it's not as cold as some of the weather they've had in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Regular temp of -40 and windchills at 70 below will freeze your face off. I mean, here your face would freeze off eventually, but it might take a half hour instead of, say, 5 minutes.

This is the coldest it has been in 15 years. But there's a half foot of snow on the ground, so at least it's pretty.

Return from the Sojourn

Holy crap it has been a while. What's been up? Let's see.

I had the lamest new years ever. No disrespect to my friend SH whose party I stopped at for an hour. I had to close the store, and even though we closed early I still didn't leave work until almost 11, so by the time I got to the party it was 10 'til midnight. When you get to the party 3 hours after everybody else the fun is a bit like the nibbles - they're a bit manky from sitting out on the counter and thouroughly picked over. So I had a sip of champagne watched them fiddle with the wii for a bit. Then it was off to another party to pick up a friend to get them home by their curfew; somehow I got volunteered for that since I had admitted to a lack of intent to drink.

Xmas was good. I got plenty of loot, highlights of which include a 32" lcd tv (from my dad, tho I paid for half), some books, and a miniature sewing machine (thanks Julia!). I haven't used it yet, but it is ridiculously cute! There was, of course, familial drama. My two of my uncles did not turn up at that family's get together in spite having moved it off of xmas itself to the weekend so that no one would have an excuse not to show up. *sigh*

I went to the eye doctor last week to get a check up. I need more contacts, but my prescription is expired. I also decided it was time to get new glasses, my old ones being from something like 10 years and 3 or 4 prescriptions ago. Then today I had to go back and have my pupils dialated some the doc could peer deep into my retinas and check for tears or holes or something. Everything came up fine, but having almost no iris showing in your eyes is kind of creepy looking, and gives me a headache.