New Things that I know:

1. Propane light + Ooooouvre's 20 year old sleeping bag = fire hazard.
2. Sleeping at Best buy is fun but trying. Laptops for $249 is worth the wait. More later.
3. It takes a line 30 minutes to go from the sporting goods section at Target around past the food, the Electronics, the A/V, and the Stationary to get to the registers.
4. My kids are the best. Better than all of yours (just kididng).
5. Dora and Swiper make one hell of a team.

So I called the man my children affectionately call "The Giant" and we decided to camp out at Best Buy turkey day night. We had plenty of food and movies and blankets, but a 11 hour wait will kill you. We got there at 6 pm and were around 30th in line. We got everything we wanted, but just damn, 11 hours early and 30th?

We learned quite a bit about human nature that night. Twice in the night the cops were called to keep people from breaking in line. At midnight a group of young teenagers got at the front claiming they were just going to return a DVD- BS. At 3:30 two guys get up front claiming they have a 4 am interview- Super BS. Any time the line shifted (tents put away or whatever) people would try to break. We would call Mall Cop (his name was Buddha- really) and he would kick them out. At 5 when the doors opened there were probably 1500 people in line. It stretched past 5 stores- including Target and Party City. Some people stood in the parking lot and tried to rush the door in front of 1480 of those people. It amazes little old liberal me that people could be so selfish. Especially when the whole line was in the store within 45 minutes. Whatever.

That morning I swore I would never do it again, now I think I might. It was pretty fun. Next year I'm bringing a tent and a kerosene heater.

w0rd,
E

Overheard from a student:

Student X had a birthday party. She is black and turned 16. Her dad had a picture of an old truck that he gave her as a joke. He told her that it was going to be her new car.

The guy behind her- who also happened to be black- said the following:

"Damn, they gone have to pimp her ride several times."

That is funny. I don't care you are, that's funny right there.

E

FYI-

In case you missed it on dci.org yesterday, the Cavies are starting their '07 season in Europe and won't be back until July. This means they won't be the artists in residence at BOA. The best corps that will be there for the show are Bluecoats and SCV. I'm hoping for SCV.

File this under genius- Every day at 9a, 12p, and 3p GCPS runs a security scan of every computer in the county. I guess they figure that everyone will be on at those times and they can get maximum coverage- a wide brush and all... Funny, those are the times when I ACTUALLY NEED MY COMPUTER TO RUN AT FULL SPEED BECAUSE EVERYONE IS ON!!! Dumbasses.

Love,
E

On a lighter note...

If you're not watching the new Battlestar Galactica on SciFi, you are missing out. This is the smartest, best show on TV. It is hard to explain the first 2 seasons to someone who hasn't watched, but you can go to scifi.com or iTunes and download "The Story So Far". It is about 45 minutes that recap 2 full seasons. It airs Friday at 9 on SciFi. It is always on at my house. I also have the first 2 seasons on DVD and the first few Season 3 episodes on iTunes. Come on, I need to share this nerdom with the world.

So, Rance Kindr just walked into my office. He is going to student teach here in the spring. This may be the best thing that has ever happened to this band. He was sitting in the office and kids were lined up at the window to get a glance- about half drummers who are showing bulges with excitement and half girls, who were, well the same thing but for a different reason.

Much Love,
E

Two posts for today. First the heavy one...


I got a pamphlet from my pastor yesterday called "Voting God's Policies". He said he got them to hand out before the election, but got scared of be labeled too liberal. This is not an evangelical publication.

It pointed out to me, however, a hypocrisy in my beliefs that I must come to grips with.

I have often said that the best way for Christians to end gay marriage is not to marry a gay person. Why does what someone else do effect the sanctity of your marriage? I would say the same of abortion- don't believe in abortion, then don't have one. What others do is none of your business (how very Libertarion of me).

The issue is that I can't bring myself to that ethic about money. I feel that it is the government and society's duty to care for those that can't care for themselves. I have also often said "Jesus didn't say 'blessed are the poor who try to find work and don't have any kids and have a disability or a major hospital expense'. He told us to take care of the poor- end of sentence." If I espouse a 'hands off my body' policy, how can I espouse a 'Jesus says give your money away' policy.

I'm sure I could come up with an 'everybody benefits from a society free of poverty, so you have to give some money away' line, but that we be bogus. I have to find a way to justify in my mind that foricing someone to give food or money to someone is different than forcing someone to not have an abortion.

I think this may take a while.

E

This is all I will say about it:

They should have put him on the list. I don't think they should have hired him, but at least put him on the damn list. He has meant too much to too many to treat him like a bitch.

BTW, I was with him on Friday when I heard from a 3rd party. He seemed a little down, but OK. Honestly, he seemed the way he has for the last 3 years. I have always felt that he changed when all this went down.

Well, best of luck Pope Joke man. We all love you.

E

My this is in this.

Why are we doing this now? I don't have the free time to search for images every day, but I certainly can't be outdone, so let's back it down, OK :-)

Love,

E