Category Archives: News & Politics

I did actually get some work done today. Mainly catchup work, I’ll top it off tomorrow and then start on my project that I really want to get done but is mind numbing.

As I posted Saturday morning, I figured out how to rip our dvds and convert them so I can put on to my iPod. I’m very proud of that. I still have an occasional bug……….out of 4 movies I only have one not showing up in my itunes. I don’t know if I goofed a setting during the conversion. So I may just redo have it converting when I go to bed. I was very surprise how small the conversion made an 90-120 min movie. I just may put the LOTR movies on it………….I have 9GB left…..and I can sync a few titles at a time and free up room.

I found out how to put our dvds on my iPod through a book I picked up while in Florida, just didn’t have the time to attempt. While going through it, I found instructions for cutting and editing song in iTunes, so now I can make real song ringtones. =) Going to try that soon.

It as been raining here, no surprise, but what is surprising that it has been the heavy constant rain with winds. It usually is just drizzle.

At least Purdue won today. The campus looked great when they showed shots of it.

Here are some news stories:

Couple Make Burglar Clean Up At Gunpoint

***This is classic! What is screwed up is the dumb thief gripping about been made to clean up? He is so lucky he didn’t get shot!!!

Rowling Lets Dumbledore Out of the Closet

***I love this! One of the things I loved about those books was the teaching of tolerance and understanding. Of course, the right-wing “Christians” don’t believe in tolerance…..but then the majority of them would have stoned Jesus, since he was messenger for tolerance.

Cries of abuse, outrage erupt at church

***Women getting the courage to confront an abuser.

And that is the news………….lol

Golden Retriever Nurses Stray Kitten

**A cute little story.  =)

Hearing Their Side

**This is something that should have been done years ago.

If you didn’t watch the Cowboys & the Bills, you missed a hell of a game and the Bills about pulled it off.  Their defense and special teams was doing what their offense wasn’t.  We so wanted to see the Bills win this one.

The Rise of Atheism

**Now I’m more of an agnostic……..I believe that there is something there, I just don’t believe in the organization of religion.  Too many people use it for justifying hatred and bigotry, it makes them so narrow minded.  So I really like fact that atheists are getting more vocal to help fight against the tide of extreme right-wing evangelicals.

We have a friend who is a fantastic photographer and always blows us away with his talent. Here a site of his : http://www.photoisee.com/

We’ve been watching some of the episodes of The War  It hard to watch but something that needs to be remembered.

The last 2 days have been a pain when it comes to us losing internet connection.  So comcast have been receiving some very upset phone calls from us.  It is getting so old………..we lose connection while we are trying to work and then we are losing time waiting on service calls………….it is such a damn waste.  The internet is our life when it comes to work and making a living………..so the more time we are off line the harder it is to do business.   What sucks is we are hating them for not fixing the problem, but even though we haven’t been nice to them concerning the issue, their people have been really nice and professional.  If they would just get the information that we give them correct and figure it out, it would be great.

So we have so frustrated………we are so busy waiting on people and losing connection we can’t get crap done.  And we have to spend at least one day running around……tomorrow……..so another day without really working like we should be.

One positive, I finally got a hold of the correct government office in Indiana to get the info I need for my Certification of Birth Aboard………then we can finally apply for our passports.

Portland bewitches travelers, rain or shine

**And people wonder why we want to move to Portland?