Why My Life Sucks

Even if it is a BMW ad, it still pretty cool.

This is will be selling for 13,000 or so.

The EU Parliament isn’t like US Congress

Can you amaging the effect this would have if a it was done in the US congress?

Or you may find your self with a face full of air bag. Snort.

“‘Access to Guns,’ Not Jihad, to Blame for Ft. Hood, Says Noted Islamic Scholar,” by Charles C. Johnson (no, not the libelblogger) at Big Government, February 8:

Imam Zaid Shakir came to speak at my school, Claremont McKenna, on December 9th to respond to the “tragedy of Ft. Hood.” Rather than respond to the massacre of American servicemen, Shakir spent the evening indicting the United States – saying “we were born in genocide.” The reason for the Ft. Hood Massacre, according to Shakir? Not jihad or Islamic fundamentalism, but the “pervasiveness of violence in our society” and because of Americans’ “easy access to guns.”

“Spain: Restraining Order On Imam For Threats To Muslim Woman,” from ANSAmed, February 9 (thanks to Insubria):

“(ANSAmed) – MADRID, FEBRUARY 9 – A judge in the court of the province of Tarragona has banned a radical imam in the Catalonian town of Cunit from coming within a certain distance of a moderate Muslim woman who accused the man of repeatedly threatening her for her ‘Western’ behaviour, reports El Pais today. The same restraining order was issued by the judge against another three individuals who are associated with the imam, who are accused of taking part in the threats against the woman.”

Voltaren twice a day 50 mg  (For joint pain.  Mainly my left arm, but both knees act up at times)
Cymbalta twice a day 30mg (So I’m not a danger to self or others)
Lorazepam up to twice a day 2mg (Anti panic attack)
Adderall twice a day 10mg (ADHD medication)
Temazepam bed time 30 mg (in theory 15mg or 30 but based on history, 30mg) (Sleep aid)
Lamictal bedtime 200mg (Mood stabilizer)

That works out to 11 pills a day,assuming I don’t have a migraine.  Having a migraine will add from 2 to 5 more pills.  I laugh at your silly commercials that compare pill counts taken  for OTC pain medications.

This is my “What the hell are they thinking” for the week or so. It seems that in the land down under you can’t have small breasted porn stars any more. It’s for the children you see. If they allow A cup porn stars it will lead to pedophilia.

“Australian Classification Board (ACB) is now banning depictions of small-breasted women in adult publications and films. They banned mainstream pornography from showing women with A-cup breasts, apparently on the grounds that they encourage paedophilia, and in spite of the fact this is a normal breast size for many adult women. Presumably small breasted women taking photographs of themselves will now be guilty of creating simulated child pornography, to say nothing of the message this sends to women with modestly sized chests or those who favour them.”

France is starting to get it.

Mother tripped and fell. Twisted her ankle, so I’m taking care of her today.  There is a trip to the local urgent card place in my near future, plus fixing the local version of $WeSellUsedMacs’ web site.

Just the ice flowing off the car port. That’s going to hurt if falls on some one.

“Not bad of for a quadruped” and “Don’t drive angry”

From one of the all time best films of all time.

Well, sort of in the sun. Still have a thin cloud cover to deal with.

We got about 6 inches on top of the 1/2 inch of ice. Generic photos of snow around the house and car to follow, once the sun is up enough so that I don’t have to use flash. The good news is we still have power and interwebs, plus it’s Saturday with nothing to do, so were good. There is a QT with in walking distance if all else fails. Plus a Pizza Hut, a Sonic and an Atwoods, so it’s all good. I’ll get some not so drab and depressing once the over cast goes away.

We have about 1/2 inch of ice over every thing, and it’s still coming down. The Google weather wigit says we should be getting snow later in the day. Oddly this front didn’t trigger a migraine. Mother doesn’t want me to drive her car on the ice, so I am staying home. I’ll try and get some photo of ice encrusted stuff later today.

There is no end to my joy and happiness. Looks like a repeat of the ‘07 storm. Happy happy happy.

However if it’s even raining around 8:30 I’m staying home. I’m not getting iced in at $WeSellUsedMacs

Got a spare lawn mower? You too can join the fast paced world of chariot races.

Hat tip to Bayou Renaissance Man

This is not a gun for your average shooter. In fact I’m not sure who it’s a gun for. It’s damn sure not for any one in this video, other than maybe the last shooter. I’d like to see the Mythbusters test this one on the “blown away” myth. The shooters DO get knocked down. I suspect buster would move back several feed if it by this mother of all rifles.

Hat Tip to Ace of Spades HQ

I woke up this morning at 3:50 AM with a splitting migraine. Took meds, sent boss an email saying I wasn’t sure if I would be in, went back to bed. Got up at 5:00 and took another. Another at 6:00 It’s now 7:00. I’ve taken the 4th of the allowed 5 epirin. There may be a trip to the ER in my future. Already warned my mother. And I can’t drive for a few hours either, so it’s going to be late getting to work.

It’s 17 degrees out right now. High of 24 predicted for today (both numbers Fahrenheit). We are supposed to get rain and snow tomorrow.

There is no end to my joy and happiness. Of course when it warms up, it will most likely trigger a migraine, just like it did when it rolled in.

bleh.

My Political Views
I am a right moderate social libertarian
Right: 5.48, Libertarian: 2.75

Political Spectrum Quiz

Unlike most of them this one has, in addition to the questions, a scale of how important the question is to you.

I’m bipolar. I have Aspergers. I have migraines. I’m dyslexic. Those four alone makes my view of the world some what different than base line human. I don’t pay that much attention to popular culture. I have a very limited number of TV shows I watch (NCIS, Mythbusters, House MD, Law and Order CI, Burn Notice,Top Chef and Project Runway). Even then most of the time I watch on my DVR which means that I don’t see ads very often. I listen to NPR on the radio, which also cuts way down on the ads. I don’t watch sports of any sort. I don’t drink mega-brew beer.

I use Firefox on Linux as my primary web browser. I have Adblock Plus installed and have a pretty good set of filter attached to it, which means I don’t see internet ads either. Because I’m not using Windows, I don’t have the constant fight against malware, either at home or at work (work machine is a G5 iMac).

My primary means of entertainment is table top role playing games. This does involve contact with other people, they more or less live in my world, or at least understand what my world is.

This lack of contact with the main stream rises up and bites me in the butt every once and while, but all and all, I think I like my world better than the real world. Well, other than the migraines and bipolar part.

It’s cold and gray out. Been that way, more or less, since the great Christmas Eve blizzard of ‘09. Looking out the window is rather depressing. On the other hand, it’s not as bad as the birthday ice storm of ‘07.

*Update* The Google weather thing says we should have snow flurries today and snow showers on Wednesday. Joy and happiness unto me.

As per normal, the linky bits are over on the right (on the blog facebook people)
Daily Blogs Part 6

* 20 out of 10
* A tense teacher
* Code blog
* Not Nurse Ratched
* Rhymes With Cars & Girls
* The Lair of the Evil DM
* waiting for the rebirth of wonder

I slept through New Years Eve. Unlike last year I actually did it. No close neighbors helps.

So, as to New Years resolutions:

1. Find a place for The Darling Wife and I to start over
2. Loose weight. If going off of Zyprea alone doesn’t do it, hit the gym. Ideal weight would be 180 or so That 24 lbs to drop. Cutting soda from my diet (see below) and drinking a lot more tea instead should help
3. Get my shit together with regards to work or get on disability
4. Get at least one “module” in all 3 games I play “published”
5. Drop corn syrup based soda and snacks from my diet. (Note: to self, order some Dublin Doctor Pepper)
6. Post at least daily.
7. Put in at least 30 minutes work on modules, daily
8. Stop raiding the candy jar and eat real food when hungry
9. Clean the house and keep it that way
10. Fix the drains and the hole in the bath tub wall

1. Find a place for The Darling Wife and I to start over
2. Loose weight. If going off of Zyprea alone doesn’t do it, hit the gym. Ideal weight would be 180 or so That 24 lbs to drop. Cutting soda from my diet (see below) and drinking a lot more tea instead should help
3. Get my shit together with regards to work or get on disability
4. Get at least one “module” in all 3 games I play “published”
5. Drop corn syrup based soda and snacks from my diet. (Note: to self, order some Dublin Doctor Pepper)
6. (new) Post at least daily.
7. (new) Put in at least 30 minutes work on modules, daily
8. (new) Stop raiding the candy jar and eat real food when hungry

Even after the great upgrade I’ve got to jump through way more hoops than I like. Flaming hoops on fire with real fire! There legacy system used a weird packet of data, but was relatively compact and easy to deal with. Not so with the XML version.

Also, some time in the last 10 years, Ingram Micro changed how often PRICES.TXT get updated AND stopped removing dead items from it. They now have a daily file with all the items they have in stock for that day. PRICES.TXT is weekly, but may have items that are currently out of stock and have not a chance of being in stock. Fixing this my number two project.