hotpantsgalore has a 4-year-old Acer laptop that has recently developed some super-annoying features. In particular, it can't seem to run a word processor to save its life: he cursor jumps around between lines (in fact, it does that on webpages too - dammit, that's annoying), it seems really slow, & generally it just seems to be running poorly.

She says she's run some anti-virus software checks on it, & it hasn't helped (I think she ran Kapersky?). What else should she do? Can we take it somewhere & get everything wiped off of it? I know she just wants to buy a new computer, but we really don't have the money right now.

Here's a photo of the non-human members of our nursing corps. Mostly they provide moral support.


And some heating, I guess?


Hip-hip hooray! Some of the Lil' Lucy Woman's friends sent her delicious chocolate-covered strawberries as a get-well present. OM NOM NOM.

Sweden approves same-sex marriage.

Overriding governor's veto, Vermont legislature OKs gay marriage.

Iowa - wait, IOWA??

Best comment on that last development came from hotpantsgalore: "Who knew there were so many corn-fed brothers & sisters?"

And no, we're not planning to go to Iowa to get married. We're still hoping California will take their cue from more cutting-edge places (like Iowa) & re-legalize marriage out there.

OK, I sense that wedding planning is going to become a major new theme in my LJ. Starting now, I will put all wedding planning posts in a separate filter. If you want to read these posts, comment here & I'll add you.

etcet has created a Pandora radio station that plays the classics of classical music. I have been listening to it nonstop since its announcement yesterday because I working on the Stupidest FEMA Assignment Of All Time. The soothing tones of strings, woodwinds, & other melodious instruments are what prevents me from going postal on FEMA. Sooooothing.

Anyway, the radio station just played Tchaikovsky's famous 1812 Overture. Everyone knows this piece - it's the one where CANNONS are featured in the percussion section! My parents had it on a record when weedweasel & I were toddlers, & we used to get them to play it. During the grand finale (which again, features CANNONS) we would march around in the living room, & everytime a cannon volley was heard, we would fall down. Toward the end of the song, the cannons are firing pretty frequently, so we'd be falling down, jumping up, falling down, jumping up, & laughing our toddler asses off.

In summary: etcet's new radio station will make you (slightly) less pissed off at your annoying co-workers & may cause you remember hilarity from your childhood. Check it out!

No, I'm not actually posting. More just checking in, making sure no one's rearranged the furniture in my absence, etc.

How are you all doing?

I love Dinosaur Comics!

The California Courage Campaign reports that Ken Starr (of Clinton-Whitewater-Monica-Lewinsky infamy) & the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund will present their case to the California Supreme Court starting on March 5, 2009 demanding that the Court void 18,000 marriages of same-sex couples that were legally performed between June 16 & November 4, 2008 in that state. The same court that ruled that citizens of the State of California could not be denied the right of marriage by mere virtue of their sexual orientation will hear Starr’s pleas to not only deny those self-same citizens of the right to marry, but to validate the idea that a minority’s rights are subject to plebiscite. Ken Starr & his minions will, in essence, seek to force divorce on all those couples who simply took advantage of their right to make a legal bond with the person they love.

The Courage Campaign's website is featuring an incredible video with a simple message: "Don't Divorce Us". The song in this video is entitled “Fidelity” by Regina Spektor, who gave full permission to use it in the battle to overturn Prop 8 in California.


"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo

As Americans who believe in the rule of law and fundamental civil rights, we know that Ken Starr and the Prop 8 Legal Defense Fund's shameful attempt to nullify these unions will not be vindicated in the eyes of history. We know that, ultimately, love will prevail, no matter how hard they try to fight it.

So simple, right??

Edmund Burke said all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Do something. Sign the petition.

Heh.

Heh heh heh.

HEH HEH HEH WHOOOOOOO BOY.

I just got a reply to an email I sent the pastor at my church in San Francisco last week. His reply included the following attachment:

wedding_booklet.pdf

O man we're really gonna do this. I think I need to sit in the corner & hyperventilate for a second.

Man, I have really come to love Gov. Crazypants Blagojevich of Illinois. He has nearly supplanted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the top of my list of Most Quotable Crazy Public Figures. In his latest fun quoted-filled interview, he likens his impeachment to Pearl Harbor, & claims that the state legislature wants him out of the way so they can get on with the evil schemes to raise taxes on all the people of Illinois.

Poll #1336228 Is he crazy? Yes/Yes
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None

Is Gov. Blagojevich....

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. marasca asked the question: What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new Congress?

I hope that the new Administration, when given the opportunity, will appoint judges and justices who support a woman's right to choose.

I'm certain that the quotation near the end of Obama's speech is from The Crisis, No. 1 by Thomas Paine. Not from a speech by George Washington to the troops at Valley Forge.

Sometimes I hate football so very, very much.

(18 minutes later) Edit: Then again.... we did humiliate the Cowgirls in the last game of the season, lasted three games longer than anyone thought we should have, & made sure that if we didn't get to play in the Super Bowl, neither did anyone else in our division.

So when do rookies report to training camp?!?!

Is anyone planning to throw a Super Bowl party, or to be in the City during the Super Bowl? 'Cause, see - if the Eagles make it to the Super Bowl this year, I just might have to come home to watch the game in the City of Brotherly Love.

Anyone willing to put me up for a couple nights?

I have created an account at SparkPeople.

hotpantsgalore & I saw a commercial last week that had two birds (probably parrots) talking to each other. At the end of the commercial, they said, "Awkward..." & the other one said, "AWK-WARD...".

I can't for the life of me remember what this is an advertisement for, but the phrase "AWK-WARD" has become the catchphrase of our holiday travels so far. Has anyone else seen this ad?

I got an automated call from Delta Air Lines at 3:30 AM letting me know that my flight from Greenville to LaGuardia was cancelled, & that furthermore, the next available flight will get us into NYC at noon tomorrow.

BOGUS.