My personal casino
It is now 6:15am in good ole Houston and my work day is about to come to an end. This week I'm pulling the night shift in Mission Control as part of my training process to prepare me for pulling the night shift when I'm fully certified. Being fully certified means that I've finally become responsible enough not to fall asleep during the midnight shift. Good stuff. The only difference between MCC and a casino is the lack of outrageously dressed women delivering free drinks. I'm still stuck in a windowless room with absolutely no sense of passing time. I wish I had something to report to you from the wonderful world of Space Station operations but it's been a relatively slow week. That, and I'd probably be arrested if I disclosed anything about work in my blog.
I got my first comment today. I feel vindicated that someone is actually reading this. Turns out to be my good friend Drew whom I haven't spoken to in a very long time. I've noticed that there are a lot of people that I've neglected over the past year. Some of them I've neglected on purpose because sometimes you eventually decide that life is better without some people in it. The majority, however, have been the toothbrush that you were supposed to bring with you on your trip to Bermuda but accidently left on the nightstand. I thought they were with me until I realized that, well, they weren't. It's something i need to work on. Fortunately (or is it unfortunately) most of my friends are in the same boat so no matter how much guilt I feel over degraded communication they are feeling the same thing. When we finally do get in contact each of us is so relieved that the other isn't pissed about not being called in such a long time that all is forgotten and good times could be had.
My friend (who arguable writes a much more interesting blog than I do) asked me what type of blog this was going to be. I had no idea I had to define that type of thing. I figured I would just write and write and keep my fingers crossed that I would write something 1) I found interesting and 2) others found interesting. That, and I'm limited by my knowledge of HTML. Once I get that down I'll start posting a few pictures of myself and all those things and people that occupy some space in my life.
And since no posting would be complete without some kind of rant or rave, I want to say how disappointed I am at those "moderate" Democrats who struck a deal with the "moderate" Republicans in order to avoid the showdown over the filibuster rules. What a bunch of crap. Speaking as a registered (and proud) Democrat I'm appalled at the lack of balls of the current set of Dems in the Senate. They caved in by producing this agreement that will relegate congressional filibuster to only extraordinary cases which anyone (politician or not) can tell you means absolutely nothing. It was a stalling tactic by the Dems to try to save some face and it was a brilliant move by the Republicans to get some of Bush's nominations approved. The Republicans knew that if they passed this so-called nuclear option there credibility would have been destroyed and they would have hence forth been known as the party willing to muscle it's way through any impass. The Dems had every right to filibuster all the nominees and should have taken a stand on principle by not making any truces with the Republicans. As it is, if we do get to the point of replacing a Supreme Court justice, this debate will once again be rekindled and all hell will break lose. Democracy is dead (or, if not deaded, wounded). Congress is all about power and who has the majority of it and what they can get away with. Call me biased, but the current set of Republicans (including Bush) scare the crap out of me. Not because of what they want to do, but by how much they've been able to get away with. I'll be very happy to see them all go when the time comes.
Today's happy thought: Big-ass strawberries.
I went looking for a picture of a strawberry and I found this site involving the pyrotechnics of strawberry pop tarts. A must read for everyone:
I got my first comment today. I feel vindicated that someone is actually reading this. Turns out to be my good friend Drew whom I haven't spoken to in a very long time. I've noticed that there are a lot of people that I've neglected over the past year. Some of them I've neglected on purpose because sometimes you eventually decide that life is better without some people in it. The majority, however, have been the toothbrush that you were supposed to bring with you on your trip to Bermuda but accidently left on the nightstand. I thought they were with me until I realized that, well, they weren't. It's something i need to work on. Fortunately (or is it unfortunately) most of my friends are in the same boat so no matter how much guilt I feel over degraded communication they are feeling the same thing. When we finally do get in contact each of us is so relieved that the other isn't pissed about not being called in such a long time that all is forgotten and good times could be had.
My friend (who arguable writes a much more interesting blog than I do) asked me what type of blog this was going to be. I had no idea I had to define that type of thing. I figured I would just write and write and keep my fingers crossed that I would write something 1) I found interesting and 2) others found interesting. That, and I'm limited by my knowledge of HTML. Once I get that down I'll start posting a few pictures of myself and all those things and people that occupy some space in my life.
And since no posting would be complete without some kind of rant or rave, I want to say how disappointed I am at those "moderate" Democrats who struck a deal with the "moderate" Republicans in order to avoid the showdown over the filibuster rules. What a bunch of crap. Speaking as a registered (and proud) Democrat I'm appalled at the lack of balls of the current set of Dems in the Senate. They caved in by producing this agreement that will relegate congressional filibuster to only extraordinary cases which anyone (politician or not) can tell you means absolutely nothing. It was a stalling tactic by the Dems to try to save some face and it was a brilliant move by the Republicans to get some of Bush's nominations approved. The Republicans knew that if they passed this so-called nuclear option there credibility would have been destroyed and they would have hence forth been known as the party willing to muscle it's way through any impass. The Dems had every right to filibuster all the nominees and should have taken a stand on principle by not making any truces with the Republicans. As it is, if we do get to the point of replacing a Supreme Court justice, this debate will once again be rekindled and all hell will break lose. Democracy is dead (or, if not deaded, wounded). Congress is all about power and who has the majority of it and what they can get away with. Call me biased, but the current set of Republicans (including Bush) scare the crap out of me. Not because of what they want to do, but by how much they've been able to get away with. I'll be very happy to see them all go when the time comes.
Today's happy thought: Big-ass strawberries.
I went looking for a picture of a strawberry and I found this site involving the pyrotechnics of strawberry pop tarts. A must read for everyone:
posted by The Rube at Thursday, May 26, 2005
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