One would think that the forsaking of TV would leave me time for you, my dearest bloggy... Alas, it has not been so. Last night I longed for the solace of TV as one might pine for a lost love. I went to the closet to drag it out, but it looked so heavy and the chances of getting any reception were so slim that I lost heart and went to bed. I woke up this morning with an unreasonably heavy heart and my mind again turned to TV. I called my friend Dan to see what he was doing. He was watching scantily clad gentlemen (not how he described it but as it appeared in my mind's eye) jump around the sand volleyball court... (The Olympics is a bitter time not to watch TV. ...) So, I went to see a movie. But the movie ended. So now I am back at home without the sweet release provided by the boobtoob. I am going to have a drink.

Oh, lucky me and God bless my policy of not answering the phone... I just got a call from the Bush/Cheney folks. Apparently John Kerry hates health care. Who knew...

I miss the boob tube... As was perhaps mentioned before, as I was casting around for something to blame for the sorry state of my affairs (i.e. my refusal to start on my project proposal which is due July 15), my roving eye fell on the television. I have been watching an totally exorbitant amount in the last few months... So, I unplugged it on Friday. Then, later, I disconnected the cable cord. Not trusting myself, I dragged it into the closet...

Oops, Dan has arrived to go on a walk. This is my second walk today!! Erm, so much energy, erm...so little to fill the time... I took two naps today, too...

The love affair seems to be one sided... 

Yeek. I am scaring myself... 

Phantom with her new haircut... 

Hi Dearest Bloggy,

You look a little different since I last saw you. Ooh, you keep getting better and better and I imagine one fine day I am going to have to pay for you. That is okay. I am not one of those cheap bastards who doesn't appreciate something that is free, if only for awhile... Really, I think that it what is wrong with people in general. We want to shift the burden of our existence onto others... Now, people in my family, i.e., my sister, would probably remark at this point that I don't seem to proud to weasel stuff out of my relatives, i.e. my mother... But, if anyone is responsible for supporting my continued existence I think it should be the one is most directly responsible for it... It fits in well with my new "total blame" theory of parental responsibility (a mere slip of theory compared to the Unabomber's, it turns out, as I read yesterday)... I don't think that man took responsibility for anything in his entire life. Well, rightly so, according to the total blame theory. My mother tried to get mad at me the other day for being my normal obnoxious self... "Look at the hand," (or whatever) I said to that (mentally because she was being so bitchy I didn't want to further inflame her), "and look within to see who created the monster."

Back to my original point. People have such a weird sense of entitlement and very little pride... Okay, too lazy to go on with this but I assure you it is a big problem.

Yeek. Phantom is throwing up. Well, see, not all free stuff is good. Ooh, maybe I can post pictures of Phantom's new haircut... I will see.

Hmm. I thought that I read that my Blogger account was canceled... Testing...

Random thoughts...

Cicadas awaken after 17 years to discover their short lives have been shortened by being trapped under concrete - unintended consequence of urban sprawl...or conspiracy?

Why did Sarah, who can't even abide the icky feeling of the short freefall of the most pitiful roller coast and has had a lifelong fear of dying in a plane wreck, throw herself out of an airplane...adventure seeking...or suicide attempt?

Why does the onslaught of random thoughts stop when one tries to list them...

Ahh, the march of progess... The head of the Selective Service is suggesting that women should register too! And raise the age to 35! Alas, by the time women have to register, I will be too old to protest registration by refusing to register... :(

Erp...

Wow, this was something I didn't know about Anne Frank... Anne Frank had two diaries... "Anne herself began editing and rewriting her diary in March 1944 after hearing an appeal on an underground radio to keep diaries for the histories that would be compiled after the war."

Monday, March 12, 2001
New edition of Anne Frank diary includes missing pages
ARTHUR MAX-- The Associated Press

Ah, the joys of romance... An excerpt from one of the most romantic love letters ever written...

"I didn't think you were very pretty in the beginning and I had trouble making love to you. The more you were good to me, the easier having sex with you became. You became more attractive..."*


*Surprisingly, this was written in a effort to win the beloved back...

Oh happy day! In the course of human events, there comes a time when Sarah is so smitten by something that is free that she feels a desire to thank her benefactor by actually paying for something! I just increased my Yahoo mailbox size from 6 MB to 25 MB for a mere $19.95! Now, a good part of my day will not being spent decided which of yer mail messages to delete! Well, at least for the next few weeks until I reach the edge of my 25 MB. But, I am going to try and be more discerning now...

Warning, the following is a testament to my brilliance... I decided to engage in a little theoretical physics last night. After spending a horribly depressing day in bed yesterday after falling ill due to seeing an exploding woodchuck, I noticed that one topic that did not seem particular depressing to ponder was why two sister particles separated by miles acted just the same. If you hit one and make it spin one way, the other will instantly start spinnning in the opposite direction. Apparently, the information to start spinning apparently travels faster than the speed of light it seemed to Eistein to be spooky and telepathic... Anyway, the process by which this happens is not currently understood so I decided that perhaps my total lack of knowledge about physics might be an advantage in figuring this out. So, I thought about it for several hours (off and on, I went to see "Kill Bill" in between) and decided that maybe they are connected to each other in a way we cannot detect and (this part was admittedly vague) someone how another dimension we can't understand is involved. Well, this morning, further on in the book, the author discussed the "superstring" theory which is similar (as far as I can tell...). Admittedly, this is not a new theory, but still, I had not heard of it so I was impressed with myself, which of course is really not difficult...

Ah, what great problems of the universe will I solve today... So far, I have donated some money to the Kerry campaign, so that is prolly a good start...

Solemn pledge...

I will NEVER again in my life watch CBS...

Bunch of tasteless sickos...

Oh my, it will be the happiest day of my life if the draft is reinstituted!! Though I strongly oppose Selective Service registration (particularly since this obligation of citizenship falls only on young men in complete and total violation of the U.S. Constitution), the silence of those who were previously so gung ho about risking the necks of others will be deafening... I think that the draft age should be raised to 65 so we can get some of those war loving members of Congress involved in their own little par-tay...

In furtherance of the flame war with my sister...

We are all faced with a variety of economic choices, both on the individual level and on the national level. Resources are finite so we cannot have everything that we want. So, we have to make choices... I just think that lots more people could handle their own health insurance needs if they were not brainwashed to think that the only hope for medical insurance is through employment with an employer that supplies health insurance. $70.00 a month is not a lot... I still support taxpayer help to provide health care to the uninsurable (of which there are many), the disabled, downtrodden, etc...

Yes, blog readers, I will accept any free vehicles offered, so send them on!! Since my sister is going to turn this into an attempted attack on my cheapness (not gonna work, I already know I am a cheap bastard), I will just say that in her own life, she does not seem to realize that resources are finite!!!! My cheapness is about to reach new heights! have instituted a new cheapness regime this month, actually. By being extra extra extra cheap for the next few months, I am trying to make my trip to Prague in August (hope hope) pay for itself! I think that most of my savings will come from cutting back on food and booze and maybe entertainment.

Gift idea for Sarah....

I do not think that Democrats are doing themselves any favor by continually hitting Bush on the head with "health care." It may or may not resonate with the American public, but it exacerbates the problem of people refusing to take responsibility for their own health and it makes the Democrats look like the party for helpless fools.

Americans have come to think about health care in very weird terms.... For some reason, health care is associated with health insurance in the popular mind to the extent to the idea of going to the doctor and plunking down some cash seems foreign... And, health insurance seems so intertwined with "employment" that people seem disempowered (or, they are just retarded) about just buying a policy to cover emergency medical situations. In 30 seconds of searching, I discovered that I could purchase a policy from Blue Cross for $77.53 a month. It has a $5000.00 deductible... Or, I can pay $200.00 a month and get a much lower deductible. I know that many poor people can afford $77.00 a month because they have cars. To me, insurance is more important than a car. We do have things called buses. In my list of important things to pay for in life, I list in them in the following order: Booze, rat food, health and car insurance, rent, food for me, food for the cats, the cars, gentlement of the evening and DSL. People need to bounce health insurance up a little higher in their own lists. Maybe lose the cell phones and cable and the excessive food that makes over 50% of Americans overweight. I just do not see how people's spending choices are a federal problem and how it could possibly be Bush's fault or how the Democrats could possibly improve the problem (without further breaking the bank...)

Another great t-shirt idea!

Finally someone cares about Sarah! I got some stuff in the mail last week about pain management from my insurance company. I looked at it briefly, decided that I did not have chronic pain (chronic irritation, certainly...) at this time and threw it away. Then, they kept calling me... Normally, Sarah does not answer the phone directly, but having attained the great age of 35 I have been making efforts (slight) to be more mature. So, I have picked up the phone a couple of times lately before the answering machine picked up. Anyway, it backfired, as usual and I got stuck donating money to the police benevolence fund again... But, also, the insurance company got me and asked if I was interested in registering for their pain management program. I was sort of surprised by this question. My heart warmed with the thought that someone was concerned that I might be in pain!! I broke the news gently... The woman seemed genuinely surprised. Hmm...

I am back 14 years later and this time I will not be silenced by my sister and her snooty Smith friends...* This t-shirt idea is going to make me rich at the upcoming Washington abortion march! It is too subtle for many, I will admit...

*Sister and snooty friends refused to associate with me with me at 1992 march because of the poster I made that bore a similar drawing..