In less important news than my new job . . .
Washing Machine fixed
My father, who owns my house, finally got the pipes headed to the washing machine's water drain fixed. They also fixed the vertical drain pipe that goes to the basement run. I'm getting half the clogs in all the drains of my house now. (Lowsy rusted up old drain.)
However, now I no longer have an excuse to have my parents do my wash, and I have piles of laundry to do.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
How can any video game lover not like a game designed for video game lovers! I mean the whole concept of pitting characters from different games against each other in an unrealistic fighting game is the kind of genius that only someone who actually knows how video game players think would love. This is the game for any Nintendo fan on your list who owns a Wii.
On a related note, some microwave ovens interfere with WiFi.
My Birthday
April 23 was my bithday, I got a microwave from my parents, now I can microwave things without them tasting like Pizza. Woks are suppose to leave flavor in food, Microwaves, aren't. As of a reference to an earlier comment on Super Smash Bros Brawl. This microwave doesn't interfere with my Wii's wifi like my old one did.
My garden.
I'm slowly getting plants planted in my garden, no thanks to the frost conditions that went through late April. So far I have peas planted, next are peppers and tomatoes. Last years potatoes got bug ridden then rotted, so I decided to leave them and use them as fertilizer. I was surprised how effective the method was at converting the starved soil from the chemical-fertilizer loving former owners turned into high-humus soil. However, I still need to monitor the insect level. Root eating pests to insect eating pests are currently at a 2 to 1 ratio, and the biodiversity of insect eating insects
(two varieties) is very low. At least the earthworm level has returned to a healthy level.
Bucket fixing:
When I went out this spring onto my patio I quickly looked down and noticed I left two buckets out. This led to them inevitably having their bottoms warp and invert. I had to get out my propane torch and heat up the bottom until the metal softens enough, and slowly work on it with a sledge or ballpin hammer (depending on your liking, I go for the sledge, mainly because I have one.) It is a pain, particularly when you forget your gloves and burn your hand on the heated bucket. However, an hour later, I had two fixed buckets, no thanks to an annoyingly cool torch that I had bummed off my dad who never used it. I definitely need a better one of those.
Fun visit from my sister-in-law
My wife had the wonderful idea of giving her 7 year old half-sister some hair glitter. Of course, anyone can guess who's hair it went in first, not the sister, not my wife, but mine. It was actually quite nostalgic of when my sister and her friends used to do things like that to me.
Cats are too smart
Me and my wife's cat has learned a new trick. She climbs up on the speaker near the window-ledge we keep her favorite toy on, and paws up towards it. Other tricks she's learned include, if she wants your attention she'll attack your leg when you walk by, lying belly side up on the side of the hallway, walking in front of the TV while you play video games, and jumping on your lap while you do anything, and jumping on your place in bed when you get up. She is, however, very cute, and we can keep her from doing "tricks" when she's not suppose to by simply using a squirt bottle filled with water. Best cat advice I've ever gotten.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Well I haven't been around much
I finally got around to posting more, I figure more posts may release my tension.
Anyways, I finally got myself a job, which makes my life a lot better, however I'm having to wait for the forms to go through the department of redundancy department. Actually it's not as bad as you might think. Primarily the delay is due to a recent merger between two districts of Goodwill in my area.
I guess it means I'm going from unemployment to underemployment. Hey work is work, even if it consists primarily of scrubbing toilets, cleaning floors and windows, picking up trash, and landscaping. I like that the job requires a jack of all trades, and moreover that they promote from within.
Still the anxiety is killing me.
Anyways, I finally got myself a job, which makes my life a lot better, however I'm having to wait for the forms to go through the department of redundancy department. Actually it's not as bad as you might think. Primarily the delay is due to a recent merger between two districts of Goodwill in my area.
I guess it means I'm going from unemployment to underemployment. Hey work is work, even if it consists primarily of scrubbing toilets, cleaning floors and windows, picking up trash, and landscaping. I like that the job requires a jack of all trades, and moreover that they promote from within.
Still the anxiety is killing me.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
How backwards Ohio is
I guess I'd share with you some things I ran across recently, that will give you an idea why Ohio is so screwed up when it comes to people with disabilities.
Just recently, when flipping through recently passed Ohio state laws I noticed that they recently removed the words "lunatic" and "imbecile" from several places in the Ohio state code, replacing them with more modern terms.
Well, I do applaud the effort to get something well overdo done, let's examine how overdue it is.
Those words went out of medical use long before even I was born. Additionally, decades ago, they were deemed hate speech by the courts.
Somehow somebody wasn't paying much attention for the past few decades.
Just recently, when flipping through recently passed Ohio state laws I noticed that they recently removed the words "lunatic" and "imbecile" from several places in the Ohio state code, replacing them with more modern terms.
Well, I do applaud the effort to get something well overdo done, let's examine how overdue it is.
Those words went out of medical use long before even I was born. Additionally, decades ago, they were deemed hate speech by the courts.
Somehow somebody wasn't paying much attention for the past few decades.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
I guess this thing's finally up.
I've been putting off switching to blogger for some time, and I finally got around to it.
I decided to go with a frank and honest attitude, using proper opinion-class journalistic methods, excluding the "objective observer" rule that nobody follows anyways, and is a complete lie made to make yourself look more professional than you are.
Even when someone is a professional, false attempts at being objective simply make them look like a phoney. (A word I will likely use in a lot of my more angered posts.) I would argue that this is the real reason people find the blogospher more honest than traditional news media, not because of it's raw nature, which may soon die due to lible law anyways.
As of who I am, I guess you could call me the atypical American you never hear about. I'm moderate on many issues. I often find the two sides of most political issues, and most issues in general, always seem to just get in a shouting match and never actually listen to each other.
I'm a strong pacifist. I feel that lethal force let alone war is rarely necessary, if ever, and often the best defense is the other side knowing that you are holding back intentionally for their own sake, as they don't exactly want you to stop doing that.
While I'm an advocate of many degrees of privacy, I actually approve of security cameras, tattleboxes and other such devices, so long as people are informed of their use.
I'm against the Iraq war, but would never blame the Soldier. How could I? They're just doing what they're told. Frankly, I blame the people giving the orders training and standing orders for anything that happens war time.
I'm avidly pro-life, yet I think that aggressive anti-abortion laws would just cause invasion of medical privacy by police and result in no real societal change, as the profession would just go underground. It would be far more effective to encourage cultural changes to respect life more in general.
I am Christian myself, but quite honestly I find most Christians Hypocrites. My stomach turns when I hear people quoting Old Testament verses that Jesus himself condemned for their obsolescence. What has it been 2000, years now?
I am quite honestly unsure where I stand on homosexuality, but I know a few things. First, unmoral heterosexual behavior is just as bad as whatever homosexual behavior could be considered immoral, giving a the vast majority of the population a lack of any moral high ground here. Second, it is not up to the government to decide such things, nor is it up to them to force any one person to acknowledge ANY marriage outside of standard legal context. Third, I believe Jesus said it best "Judge not lest ye be judged." I don't want anyone criticizing my relationship with my wife, or anything about my life at all so I'm not going to go around judging other people's sexual behavior.
To be completely honest, I don't see how the government has a right to define any definition beyond Civil Union. I think only Religious and Philosophically organizations have the right to define the term "Marriage" and they are free to each have their own definition as such, so long as they respect people's right to diversity and individuality. If they don't like someone's definition they don't have to associate with them within their organization.
Moving along on similar subjects, I personally advocate monogamy. I managed to stay celibate until I got married, and while it wasn't exactly easy, it was well worth it. To be subtle but still brutally honest, the Victorian era of excessive censorship has robbed society of the more positive rationals for monogamy. In fact the residual of that era is why I can't go into detail on an open post.
As of my general life I've been stuck unemployed due to disability for the past few years. Honestly, anyone who says people on social security are "just lazy" needs to take a more complete look at the situation. Between prejudice of companies against disabilities, complete lack of initial references at age 26, due to the first one, no experience, also due to the first one. The unemployed persons with disabilities rate has become a self-propagating problem, largely due to society wide procedures that should have been reviewed a long time ago.
I will gladly post more some other time, but it's late, I'm tired, and I probably need to check my mail and hit a forum or two before going to bed.
I decided to go with a frank and honest attitude, using proper opinion-class journalistic methods, excluding the "objective observer" rule that nobody follows anyways, and is a complete lie made to make yourself look more professional than you are.
Even when someone is a professional, false attempts at being objective simply make them look like a phoney. (A word I will likely use in a lot of my more angered posts.) I would argue that this is the real reason people find the blogospher more honest than traditional news media, not because of it's raw nature, which may soon die due to lible law anyways.
As of who I am, I guess you could call me the atypical American you never hear about. I'm moderate on many issues. I often find the two sides of most political issues, and most issues in general, always seem to just get in a shouting match and never actually listen to each other.
I'm a strong pacifist. I feel that lethal force let alone war is rarely necessary, if ever, and often the best defense is the other side knowing that you are holding back intentionally for their own sake, as they don't exactly want you to stop doing that.
While I'm an advocate of many degrees of privacy, I actually approve of security cameras, tattleboxes and other such devices, so long as people are informed of their use.
I'm against the Iraq war, but would never blame the Soldier. How could I? They're just doing what they're told. Frankly, I blame the people giving the orders training and standing orders for anything that happens war time.
I'm avidly pro-life, yet I think that aggressive anti-abortion laws would just cause invasion of medical privacy by police and result in no real societal change, as the profession would just go underground. It would be far more effective to encourage cultural changes to respect life more in general.
I am Christian myself, but quite honestly I find most Christians Hypocrites. My stomach turns when I hear people quoting Old Testament verses that Jesus himself condemned for their obsolescence. What has it been 2000, years now?
I am quite honestly unsure where I stand on homosexuality, but I know a few things. First, unmoral heterosexual behavior is just as bad as whatever homosexual behavior could be considered immoral, giving a the vast majority of the population a lack of any moral high ground here. Second, it is not up to the government to decide such things, nor is it up to them to force any one person to acknowledge ANY marriage outside of standard legal context. Third, I believe Jesus said it best "Judge not lest ye be judged." I don't want anyone criticizing my relationship with my wife, or anything about my life at all so I'm not going to go around judging other people's sexual behavior.
To be completely honest, I don't see how the government has a right to define any definition beyond Civil Union. I think only Religious and Philosophically organizations have the right to define the term "Marriage" and they are free to each have their own definition as such, so long as they respect people's right to diversity and individuality. If they don't like someone's definition they don't have to associate with them within their organization.
Moving along on similar subjects, I personally advocate monogamy. I managed to stay celibate until I got married, and while it wasn't exactly easy, it was well worth it. To be subtle but still brutally honest, the Victorian era of excessive censorship has robbed society of the more positive rationals for monogamy. In fact the residual of that era is why I can't go into detail on an open post.
As of my general life I've been stuck unemployed due to disability for the past few years. Honestly, anyone who says people on social security are "just lazy" needs to take a more complete look at the situation. Between prejudice of companies against disabilities, complete lack of initial references at age 26, due to the first one, no experience, also due to the first one. The unemployed persons with disabilities rate has become a self-propagating problem, largely due to society wide procedures that should have been reviewed a long time ago.
I will gladly post more some other time, but it's late, I'm tired, and I probably need to check my mail and hit a forum or two before going to bed.
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