That's When I Reach for My Revolver

I'm not sure that I've written since Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, I did write something. I made a lot of food. A lot of different kinds of food.

We watched quite a lot of Junkyard Wars, and I enjoyed it in spite of not expecting to. It got to the point where I really wanted to watch the one where they had to build cannons. There's one sitting on the Tivo now in which they have to build bombs and blow stuff up. I'm looking forward to it. You can tell that show is from the UK. They'd never let people do that here -- America is so uptight about terrorists and bombs and stuff. Instead, it comes from a country where they don't even allow handguns. There's got to be some irony in there. Oh, and I think it used to be called Scrapheap Challenge.

I think a few of my male friends would make an excellent team for that show. What game show should you be on? (yeah, Junkyard Wars is a game show) I think I should be on Rock and Roll Jeopardy. Like Junkyard Wars, there's no money to be won (you pick a charity and play for them, which is cool too). On Junkyard Wars, you get a bottle of champagne if you win. It takes a couple of days for the contest to play out too, so there is a significant time expense involved.

So, I'm trying to relax until tomorrow when I get my big fat check for the old townhouse. If you have any spare karma/luck/juju lying around, it would be nice if you'd push it my way. It's not about money at this point, it's more about lawyers. The money stuff is all decided, really.

I can't wait to pay off my car and an old loan I've been pecking away at for a couple years. There's nothing like a lump sum to fix up your debt situation. Shaving little bits of it off every month feels so pointless. It would be even better to NOT have debt at all (I don't really consider a mortgage a debt because the house is usually worth more than you owe anyway), but I'm never able to maintain that state for long.

That stupid tool of a "public" "servant", Katherine Harris, has decided that George Bush will be the next president. You know, what's really important is what she wants. Fuck those people in the populous counties. Their votes don't matter. I really think that if this had been the other way, and a Democrat was perpetrating this crime upon Republicans, the guns would already be out.

It's a real credit to us all that this hasn't turned violent (except maybe in Miami-Dade county). I think people were calmed by the U.S. Supreme court agreeing to hear the story, though I'm shocked that they did. It's supposed to be out of their jurisdiction, so let's hope they have something useful to add to the discourse.

I'm still floored that the Republicans think this is the way to win an election. I can't believe people who voted for Bush don't see that all the human-readable ballots should be counted, one way or the other. I have to say that I was fascinated before, but now I'm just really, really angry.