Well, the hippest thing to do right now is “have a blog”. Ooooh. Ooooh, baby.Well, I’m the hippest of all-I’ve had one since ’96, dude. So there.
I guess the reason I’m starting it up again is because I have a bit more time on my hands than before. I alsohave a nice webserver on my desk to play around with and archive this stuff offline. I’m also feeling a little”bottled up”, and I liked being able to write down things.
So welcome to “Journal ’04”-woo hoo.So, what’s gone on the past 3 & some change years? Not a lot. Working at the same job, same 2 kids-they’re a little older, wife much the same too. I sold my place, but that’s in the bio. I don’t fly kites as much as I used to.
I’ll probably be talking about a few topics here. My life, computers, politics, and religion. I’m probably going to say things that will offend some of you, make others angry, and maybe even attract the attention of the FBI. Not like any of those things are difficult to do these days… With our country so polarized, and most of the rest of the world either really pissed at us, or trying to suck up to us to get more money, or just thinking we’re all a bunch of idiots led by the biggest idiot of all, it’s not so surprising.
In any case, I hope what I have to say isn’t as boring as a simple recitation of “here’s what I did yesterday”, “here’s some links to look at”, “here’s how much I hate the U.S. gov’t”-there’s lotsa places to go for that sort of stuff. I’ll try to post once a day, at least during the week.
First off-tax time-{sigh} This year I used a tax program to do them. It was really easy. I have one problem. It’s TOO easy. Like using an accountant, you don’t have to do much at all. I like the suffering better.
I really don’t like the whole tax thing, though. It’s SO biased against regular people, especially with all the stuff the GOP did. It was bad before, it’s worse now. And the corporate tax avoidance just STEAMS me! Aargh! I mean really, we could have a system where most everyone pays no tax, the large corps and the filthy rich pay it all, and the difference is handled by VAT. I’ve been thinking this one over for years, but the big multinationals will never let it go by, ever.
Next-Big Brother Dubya. This is a topic that could easily overwhelm this blog-I have so much to say. For today, all it’s going to be is this: Rove & Cheney should NEVER let him give press conferences… See Tom Tomorrow for more on this one, though I suppose everyone is on this topic today.
I took a bitty quiz on beliefnet.com called the belief-o-matic. It’s kinda fun-you answer a bunch of questions about what you believe and it tells you what religion you belong in. Mine was pretty accurate-the top ones were Buddhism, neo-pagan, and UU, which are exactly the three I’m active in…