Good news/Bad news

Bad news first..

Politics is a dreadful bore now, isn't it? I still read, but have no desire to write about anything that is going on in the news or politics at all. I've said all I have to say anyway.. there's tons and tons of stuff in the archives for those that want to read some serious rants..

So, that leaves me to wonder if I should write about anything. Probably not. I don't do anything all that exciting, and don't really have much going on, so it's not like I can write about my daily life.. and I don't think a blog should be like an on-line diary.. I might write about entertainment stuff when the mood strikes, or post something that is amusing..

Lets face it.. we have 3 more years of chimpy, and it's going to be this same shit over and over. The mid-terms might be interesting, but will anything of substance change as a result, even if the democrats control congress? It's highly doubtful..

The political debate has become quite lethargic all around. Just read the usual blogs.. read Sullivan and all he talks about is torture.. and read Americablog and all they talk about is how Ford is a bunch of anti-gay assholes.. read Atrios, and all he does is link to what other people write, and hardly offers his own point of view.. and read dailykos and it's like a poli-sci class.. boooorrrrring. Go look at John in Atlanta's blog.. and he's had 6 posts for December.. and like 1 of them political.. he appears bored as well.. even that nutbag Oxen is a bore.. posting a few things about guns, and inevitable rants about people getting killed (Tookie and that nut in Miami that was killed by the air marshals), which of course he approves of.. I mean.. he's still all about death and destruction so that's no surprise..

But there is seriously a lack of interest lately, as if we've all taken a sleeping pill.. and we know the situation is going to suck for a few more years, and there's nothing we can do about it.. and there's no repercussions for sucking this bad.

George Bush? Okay.. he's a fool, an idiot, and the worst president ever. Even if everyone finally agreed on that, what would it matter? It just wouldn't.

Anyway.. the good news.. Yesterday I got a call from my VA project manager.. and he said very nice things about me, and said I'll be assigned a new project next month.. So all is good on the employment front it seems. I wasn't really worried as the programmers seem to be in demand.. but it's nice to have that worked out before the holidays.

Speaking of which.. I normally buy myself something this time of year.. but I can't think of anything. I'd still like to put the new sound system in my car, but that's really expensive and don't want to blow 3 grand right now.. There's nothing for my computer to buy.. and I don't feel the need to upgrade it again as it's plenty fast for the stuff I do..

I think I've said this in the past.. but when I was young, I wished I had the money to get all kinds of cool stuff.. When I was in highschool, I wanted a '69 Mach I (maybe 5 grand).. there was the new computer gear, video games.. and musical gear (when I was in a band) and all kinds of expensive, at the time, crap I thought would be really neat. I had no money and when I did work during the summer, I made minimum wage, and all that went to beer anyway..

Today, I have a paid for $42,000 car, a house.. a fat load of cash in the bank.. and I can't think of a thing to buy myself for Christmas.. So, the thought came into my mind that I could buy Christmas stuff for my family members, but I'm so out of touch with that now, I'd have no idea what to buy anybody..

I guess I just don't have much interest in much of anything anymore, and that's rather weird. If I quit playing WoW, I guess I could take up writing and recording music again, and spend many thousands on really cool gear... stuff that we would have prostituted ourselves out for when we were kids to get..

My problems aren't such big problems, and re-reading that, I sound like a total asshole.. OMG I don't know what to spend money on! Oh well..

If you check on my blog daily just to see some serious new rant about scumbag politician's or evil christians (yes I still hate them), it might be better to check once a week now..

Hey.. I wrote a lot and often for almost a full year. That's not so bad, is it? Maybe I should just write a novel.. hmmmmm