I lost what I did yesterday on a forced reboot-grrrrr. Basically the same ‘ol. I’m beginning to repeat myself.
Since the last time: went to parents Sat. 26th and Kidspace-mom whined about the kids’ long hair-whatever. Strolled on Laguna Beach after church Sun., OWL. Scanned in all the senior pictures, set up the main grid for US 80+25. Check it out. Scanned in me over time and made an animated GIF. Did lights for a church members’ Eagle Scout court of honor, went to CPK with Erika afterwards. Went to the Aquarium Sat. with family. Got sick Sun. took Mon. off. Kids have pinkeye. Erika had a tiny stroke, doctors said-had a PET today to check it.
Well, Villaraigosa is going up against Hahn-26% of people voted. Guess that’s a big whatever. Bankruptcy reform passed-bastard credit card companies have wanted this for years-they HATE writing off those loans. Debtor’s prison, here we come. Bush is giving a roadshow of SS reform-it’s sinking like a dead whale. The Lebanese are trying to make a difference, no matter what the Syrians say-hopefully it won’t devolve into civil war again… Itchy trigger fingers in Iraq, a freed journalist, and deliberate ignorance of their own rules adds up to dead people. And the freedom fighters roll on…
Eclipse is taking off. I’m trying to set up Jef Raskin’s THE-RIP, Jef. It was nice, but a bit crude-still early on. Looking for a good free OCR program-I have a ton of docs to scan. Picked up the Firefox update, Napster (which doesn’t like firewalls), a couple of shareware animation programs, deng, marvel, orbeon, freemind.
I’m enjoying the electronic senior page thing. I have the concept, the splash image, and am starting on the essays. Periodically taking stock of your existence is a good thing to do.
The Eagle Scout thing was also interesting. I haven’t been involved in that stuff since 8th grade. I know now why I left-the org is a great way to indoctrinate kids in good morals at a time when they really need it from someone other than their parents. The problem, though is the same as the solution-if you’re a free thinker, indoctrination is a bad thing. Helping kids figure out their morals is a better tack-this is the core of UUism-in fact they’re thinking of making a Scout-like org. I’d help. I mean really-“do my duty to God and country”, “morally straight”. Yuck. There are so many reasons why that is wrong, wrong, wrong. That sort of crapola may have been fine in the 50’s, but now it’s just looking small and closedminded. I’m sure hardcore scouts, Republicans and evangelicals would disagree. And they would be wrong. Michael “jesus juice” Jackson “hurt” his back this morning and showed up to court an hour late wearing pajama bottoms-someone slept late…wonder if he was going commando-wish he’d gotten arrested instead. Blake’s jury is still out after 4 days-that always looks like a hung jury. Britney says she “let herself go” after she got married-and says she needs to lose weight. The insanity of weight (and celebrity) in our culture-she’s prolly what? 10 lbs above her before weight? That makes her still underweight…