Thursday, 17 December, 1998 04:38

I have arisen, having slept a substantial part of the last eighteen hours...

And we're bombing Iraq, finally.

O'wait! The asshole Republicans want the world to be on hold whilst they continue their deliberations... how dare Clinton act like the President when they don't want him to! After all, he doesn't kiss-and-tell properly! How can he run a war?

Enough of that, I covered it yesterday.

I'm feeling halfway energetic today, right now anyway. Hoping that it'll last. I'm out of the prescription cough medicine, though, dammit. But my temp is down below 100F, so I'm doing OK. Still working on the first pot o'coffee, things are bound to get better!

They finished up the street Tuesday finally. Someday soon, I hope, they will come in and fix our driveways. It will be so nice to not have to put up with all of the noise and dust and construction equipment...

I'm planning on getting a lot done today, including putting the xmas tree up. I'm going to do some shuffling/re-arranging so that all of the construction equipment is handy but out of the main living area.

I also need to work on the sheetrock, sanding and doing another coat.

The weather is supposed to be decent until about Sunday, when we will get some rain or snow. Maybe I should work on the hot tub. I still haven't done that, dammit.

Too many irons in the fire. I really want to get the new web design done, too, which is probably another 8-10 hours of work. Well, knowing me, probably twice that. Making things simpler isn't always all that easy...

So I should get to work, instead of sitting here...


17:33...
Didn't get diddly done.

I spent a coupla hours trying to make the dishwasher work... but it isn't getting any water. It worked up until today, but I guess that the solenoid went out. I'd have called Sears if I could talk, but I still can't. I can croak, but it's still painful.

And I'm so fucking disgusted with the republicans. I feel like giving up on the world... there are just way too many mean and ignorant people. I sure as hell can't do anything about it. And I doubt that anyone else can either.

But nobody's even trying.

The press is amazed that the Republican "leadership" is going ahead with impeachment proceedings, given that it is so obvious that there are no grounds.

The sane people are standing around with their jaws on the ground, apparently unable to stem the flow of insanity. Well, I'm making the assumption that there are some sane people in Washington... they are not very evident or at all effective.

And the fact that we can't bomb Iraq on ramadamdam or whatever the fuck it is... would they hesitate to blow us up on xmas? I think not... not that I would give a damn either way.

I'm sick of the whole damned thing... and the TV has been on CNN all day long. Explain me that, huh. I hate it but I can't stop watching it...

I did make some progress on the new site, though. I don't know if I'll be able to wait until day 1000 or not. Yeah, I will.

And I'm getting grouchy, too. Well, I've been up since, what, 04:00? I'll excuse me for that. I just need to go to bed and get over it.


19:49...
But I didn't, not nearly soon enough. I watched Crossfire, and they announced that the guy who is running for Speaker of the House has admitted some extramarital affairs.

What a fucking surprise.

I'm having trouble figgering out who's the pot and who's the kettle and more specifically, how fucking stupid do they think we are?

No, that was a rhetorical question. Please don't tell me.

But, by golly, he didn't lie UNDER OATH about it. No he didn't.

Mostly because nobody asked him. Nobody gives a shit. If he was asked, you betcher ass he would've lied.

Throw all the fucking clowns out... there would be no one left to run the country, and we'd probably do pretty fucking well. I've never been much of an anarchist, but today I'm on the edge, or maybe over it a little bit.

My profanity ratio has gone up a bunch, anyway. And that's just what I'm writing down, what I'm thinking I can't count.

Well, I could, but I don't really feel like it.

That's all.


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