Click images for desktop size: "N7129n7142:Hallas" by NASA Yesterday the phone company was supposed to turn the phone line off so we could have the dry loop or "naked" DSL.
They didn't.
Friday got a letter saying that today they would cut off all service for being past due on the account.
That will probably happen and probably on time.
The whole point is - if I'm not around that is no reason to panic. There's never any real reason to panic at all. Panic usually just messes stuff up anyway.
Everything will get sorted out. I still blame the State for going in and garnishing my bank account with no notice or attempts to contact me on what is now an officially disputed charge.
This will teach me to let down my guard and think that everything is A-OK.
Click image: "Bride of Frankenstein" by Universal

So now I am nervous because everything is A-OK. My puppy is happy. The giant dog is laughing and the gentle dog is biting me. What could be better than that.
I still can't sleep with anything that could be interpreted as rest but I feel okay. Twingey, maybe the best word for it.
The election is bugging me the most. I keep trying to be fair and to understand. I'm chagrined that the candidate I like the most is the Democratic VP. The same way I'm terrified about the Republican VP candidate.
Palin is becoming more monstrous with each passing second. I wonder about the 30% of the people who think she's great. Of course I'm more frightened by the 10% who think Bush is doing a great job and that everything in the world is just, well, great, you know?


Click images for desktop size: "Dark" by Mark Kempen "On April 29, 2008, 14 leaders of Alaska's black community met with Gov. Sarah Palin to voice discontent with her minority hiring record. Palin's response, which was first reported by journalist Earl Ofari Hutchinson, only compounded her icy relationship with her African-American constituents."
"Gwen Alexander, the president of the African-American Historical Society of Alaska, said that Palin stated defiantly that she had no intention to hire any minority staffers. And according to Bishop Dave Thomas, senior pastor of Anchorage-based African-American church Jesus Holy Temple, the Palin administration excluded black business owners from the Alaskan oil and gas pipeline board. "We wasn't even able or allowed to go into the meetings" to seek contracts for the pipeline, Thomas said."
Palin further alienated Alaska's black community by becoming the first Alaskan governor in recent memory to not recognize the Juneteenth celebration of the emancipation proclamation. "She doesn't hire any black people, she doesn't have any on her staff, so it's not a surprise that she doesn't support our Juneteenth celebration," Alexander said.

So maybe the incredible scornful attacks on Obama aren't so much a campaign but Palin's and McCain's genuine feelings about minorities. (What a dreadful word to describe people).
While I understand McCain's fairly obvious misogynistic views I'm surprised that a 21st Century woman could be so adamantly anti-woman.
That's not my problem. Except it really is.
My problem is getting through today and then getting through tomorrow.
Sometimes its not that easy.
Keep forgetting to mention: I updated the Movie listings. Corrected a lot of stuff and added 200 more titles.
As to the stats if you go to the "genre" library there's a graph-y looking icon in the upper left. Click on that icon and you'll get a coolish bar graph of the entire collection. So if you've got 28 Cheh Chang titles you can see I've got 35! Which means I probably have something you don't. Let's trade!