Always Coming, Never Here

20,000,000 people are being held prisoner in North Korea. They are starving, resorting to cannibalism. Completely cut off from the world, they have no media and no sources of information except for occasional helium balloons carrying leaflets sent by sympathetic people in the South. It's as if they live 70 or 100 years in the past, but they exist under a governmental rule of law that would make Orwell piss himself. Concentration camps that would give Hitler a boner imprison "class enemies" (for example, people who leave picfures of Kim Jong-Il on the ground) and also their entire families (all of them) unto the third generation, and almost no one leaves these camps alive. It's as if a cult of twenty million helpless people is being kept there... And what are we doing about it?

Not a FUCKING THING. Too bad they don't have any oil.

I purchased this stainless steel 2 quart bottle with the intention of enjoying seltzer and creating my own all natural, organic soft drinks.

The lovely, thick stainless steel bottle SPRANG A LEAK on my very first attempt at using a CO2 cartridge with it. I am somewhat horrified by this. The company, LISS, is based in Hungary, and they offer a 1 year warranty on the product... but now I'm a bit fearful that this thing, even with replacement, won't last me a year, if their manufacturing is bad enough that the damn bottle has no integrity. Maybe I should get a refund instead?

sigh.

So I had read that there was supposed to be this legislation or legal ruling or something that is supposed to be preventing cell phone companies from applying huge termination fees when you want to end a contract near the end of its term. Not so! It would cost me $175 to cancel my contract prior to 3/22/2008, a mere five weeks away. So I'm stuck paying Cingular/AT&T/whatever-the-fuck another fifty bucks. But it's canceled now, so they can just bite me.

Pay as you go and VOIP for me from here on out.

You have more balls than any of the Democrats who clapped for the dictator.

Who will Bush nominate as VP when Cheney dies?

Who cares if 226,000 people died? Not us.

U.S. pulling out in weeks

We've got to protect freedom and liberty, we don't care about saving lives or rebuilding hope. We pledged $350 million when the death toll was half that number... and more people are going to die if we don't keep helping. *This* is the what we need to be doing to prevent terrorism - helping people build better lives!!

What the fuck does "let's agree to disagree" mean, anyway? It doesn't resolve anything. All you end up doing is walking away from the conflict. It's just a pointless platitude - and what if you don't want to "agree to disagree"?? I don't want to disagree, I want you to realize you're wrong, because you are you dumbass!

So there. Venting session over. Not that this has anything to do with any personal interaction with anyone, or even me interacting with random people online... I was just reading a "heated" discussion in a newsgroup, and one of the posters used that line. I totally got irked after reading it. Maybe because I'm tired and sweaty and I'm SO FED UP WITH THE HEAT! GAH!!

Summer can be over any old time now.

In other news, I've hit a plateau on the weight loss. I'm pretty sure I'm losing waistline and trimming up okay, but not moving on the scale is quite frustrating. I'm not being as strict with the calorie counting as I should be, and that's the result. I've been slacking on the exercise too, but mostly because of the thrice-damned ninety degree weather. Fuck all. I will eagerly dive into the pool at my parent's house when I head down there for birthday vacay this week.

High points since the last journal entry: got my Cowgirl Chocolates in the mail (mm, Belgian chocolate and cayenne pepper); went to an awesome wedding - great company, food, music, and dancing fun; went to FuGaKyu for a great sushi dinner; and got to see the "new and improved" He-Man cartoon.

Damn that cartoon was amusing. Revamped versions of all the 20 year old toys, horrible cheesy dialogue (worse in some ways than the original cartoon), total ripoffs of Star Wars in backgrounds, music, and action scenes, and a totally anime look and feel to the whole thing that just made it seem goofy.

Best line ever: He-Man lets Skeletor go, but Skeletor is a jerk and shoots the ledge the king is sitting on. King falls down a bottomless crevasse, and He-Man DIVES AFTER HIM. Using his immense power to accelerate gravity, he catches up with the king, and they fall... the king says:

"He-Man! You can... fly!?!"

to which He-Man replies:

"Uh... well... no."

and then he loses his grip on the king, and they continue to fall.

That was just plain quality entertainment right there, I gotta tell ya.

Today's lunchie yum yum: HARD SALAMI. Yeah baby. Sweet, spicy, hard salami sliced nice and thin in a sangwich with American cheese.

On a more negative note... some old crabby broad at the deli stole the last loaf of focaccia bread from me. She walks in, doesn't even get in line, but puts her grimy mitts on the bread because it's the last one and sets it on the counter. You're not supposed to paw the bread, lady, that's why the people at the counter pick it up with wax paper.

I guess that's the one great thing about getting old - you get to not give a shit and be a cranky crabass and completely lose any semblance of manners. Grr. >:(