Tomorrow (December 5th) is the 74th anniversary of the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Perhaps the single greatest exercise in mass stupidity this country has participated in until the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 under Mr. Nixon. (Thanks Tricky Dick, you fucktard.)
It only took us a short 14 years to come to our senses and realize that making a crime what people are going to do anyway only causes more problems than it solves…. Unfortunately we went and repeated the same mistake in 1970 and very shortly we will still have not learned our lesson as the so-called “War on Drugs” has almost lasted three times longer than prohibition did with hundreds, possibly thousands of times the cost in lives, families, and dollars with even worse results and repercussions as we enlisted the help of countless other governments under the guise of better relations and created a worldwide problem where under prohibition it was only one that affected us… The rest of the world wasn’t going to be so stupid as we were and listen to a bunch of stupid Christian women’s groups that had no idea what they were talking about to begin with.
Anyway…. Here’s to celebrating our constitutional rights and our ever-flexible charters of freedom. May they survive our stupidity into the next age.
Okay, so out of sheer boredom I’m reading the job postings on the Capital Metro website tonight and in their posting for bus drivers they have the following statement:
“Bus service is provided to the community 365 days a year 24 hours a day.”
Now of course, anyone who’s ever bothered to look at their schedules knows that this is complete and total misrepresentation. That line should read “Bus service is provided to the community for 19 hours per day 6 days a week, 14 hours on Sunday & Holidays.” … But of course they would never want to tell the truth like that.
Anyway… the whole reason I’m even bothering to point this out is that last Sunday, for reasons I don’t care to explain or get into, ended in a complete disaster which included me and a cute drunk guy being stranded downstairs and on a park bench in Republic Square for 4 hours in the increasing cold with him huddled next to me for warmth and passed out.
Of course, had his cell phone not died, and my cell phone not been lost/stolen then we could have called a ride… but neither of us had money for cab fare and both had bus passes. Unfortunately, capmet in their infinite stupidity only runs the night owl routes from Tuesday through Sunday (which is actually Monday Through Saturday because they run the routes at 12:30A, 1:30A, 2:30A respectively.) I guess they figure people don’t go out on Sunday nights for some reason… obviously these people are out of touch with the realities of Austin. Of course Monday being Veterans Day (observed) that further complicated matters…
Needless to say, after we finally got home, (with it beginning to rain in the half mile walk from the bus stop to home) and warmed up, we both passed out. (around 7AM at this point) and woke up at 2:45PM… Unfortunately that meant he had to leave in a rush… and I have yet to hear from him again. par for the course I suppose, which is a shame because I honestly liked him (for once,) even if that would mean I ignore my long-standing rule about guys under 25 being too young & wet behind the ears to seriously consider for relationships. Oh well. par for the course I suppose.
Work news…. well I’ve been contacted about several job offers recently… of course I’ve heard nothing from any of them except the occasional call to say that they filled the position. Even went so far as to fill out an app for Walgreen’s, and haven’t heard from them either. I’ve also started some work on a major website transition to a Joomla! Content Management System… which although it will be mostly busy work for me, it’ll mean a big difference in the way the website is managed and handled.
I saw the shrink on Thursday. Of course since I was a standby appointment, I was sitting there all day waiting for my name to be called. But when I saw him it took him a while to read the notes from the previous two doctors, and then to piece together exactly what the current problems were… He didn’t like me being on Xanax for an extended period of time, but I explained what happens if I’m not on it. He said that the Seroquel, which has made such a huge difference for me is possibly the reason that I am still unable to get motivated to do things and have problems collecting my thoughts… which honestly has gotten worse lately rather than better…. so he’s switching me to two other medications and keeping me on 120Mg of Cymbalta.
Here I go again, sharing too much information with the world… but hey, its better to get it down in writing than to have to keep it bottled up and rattling around in my head until it drives me nuts. So I suppose that’s enough blog therapy for now. Hope everyone’s weekend went well… It looks like I’ll be doing some family time around Thursday… hopefully I can persuade them to bring me back sooner than Sunday… I have so much that I need to start doing.
Catch y’all later. Oh, and a parting gift… How to do the Mona Lisa in Microsoft Paint. 2 hrs 30 minutes compressed to 5 minutes for your viewing comfort… Why’s this so impressive? MS-Paint is such a basic, no-frills program that it’s akin to the difficulty of doing the same thing on a postage stamp with a kid’s water color set.
My apologies to Mel Brooks’ comic masterpiece. But I’m sure that’s what every leader in North, Central, and South America has been thinking.
Kings have the advantage in such matters… they don’t have to worry about upsetting the electorate.
To quote the news article….
“¿Tu, por qué no te callas?”, grita el rey Juan Carlos de España a Hugo Chávez, el presidente de Venezuela.
During the 17th annual Ibero-American Summit, held at Santiago de Chile, and in the presence of leaders from Latin America, Spain, and Portugal; President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela kept interrupting former right-wing Spanish PM José María Aznar, prompting the king to lean over and say something out of range of the microphone several times. When Sr. Chávez finally called Sr. Aznar a “facist”, the king angrily turned to Chávez and said loud enough for the microphones and everyone else in the room to hear what we’ve all been asking ever since that nut job was elected… “Why don’t you shut up!?”
I say, way to go your highness! About time someone had the guts to ask that barking tub of lard why he can’t seem to keep his mouth under control.
This holiday season, please remember not only what we have to be thankful for, but who we should be thanking.
Just thought I would take a minute to remind everyone to remember to observe two minutes of silence (one for each of the two great wars) at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, in honor of our fallen heroes in all the wars, including the current one; regardless of whether you agree with it or not.
If you have to ask yourself why… maybe this video will remind you.
Well, I thought I’d give y’all a weekend update to let you know what’s going on.
I’ve successfully kept my room clean for the most part all week… and I even intend on doing laundry over the weekend so it can’t get out of hand again. We’ll see how that goes. It’s been cool enough to keep my window open day & night… which has been nice… now if only I had someone to curl up with under those covers…. LOL I miss my pussycat.
Halloween is finally over. Thanksgiving is coming at us full steam ahead, so of course all the stores have broken out the Christmas decorations. I should be extra adamant about taking my anti-depressants with the holidays rolling around.
I finished my application for Walgreen’s tonight… after taking a friend to the ER for some problems that could have been seen to by a regular doctor… but Fridays are as usual a bitch. Unfortunately in the process, I lost my phone somewhere, and because of the fact it’s rolling directly to voicemail, one of two scenarios has happened… Either someone found it and turned it off to get rid of the annoying ringing constantly, or it was in a parking lot and got destroyed by a tire…. I’m thinking it was the latter. I guess we’ll see if we hear anything tomorrow. I intend on checking the pharmacy and pro-med again tomorrow to see if anyone turned it in… and keep checking the account activity online to see if anyone uses it. keep your fingers crossed. I don’t have the money to replace it at the moment, but Boost has come out with a newer Unlimited phone that is a camera phone with blue tooth and a back LCD…. which makes it very attractive for me, and well worth the extra thirty bucks… but I wonder how they do the new phone thing… since I already have an account, do I get a free month or a discount or what? I’ll talk to the real customer service reps during the day… the night ones in Costa Rica or wherever they are are simply morons… they can’t ever answer simple questions.
On the news front, I see Fred Phelps finally got his comeuppance, to the tune of 11 million dollars! About frigging time that hate monger got his just reward. Hopefully none of the higher federal courts have the gall to overturn that punitive reward. He’s had it coming for years, and picketing a dead soldier’s funeral with hate messages and twisting it to be all about fags as he so often does is just plain shameful. I believe there’s a special place reserved in Hell for him and his ilk…. and hopefully they’re getting reamed all day, every day with out so much as lube or a reach around.
. But I’m sure that’s what every leader in North, Central, and South America has been thinking.
