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Our House, Finally

Yeah, I was planning on waiting until we got everything cleaned up and put in its permanent place, but it’s looking like that’s going to take far longer than I anticipated.  So, I decided to go ahead and snap some pics of the new house to finally get something online.

I’ve tried to take them in an order that should hopefully let you get a feel for the layout.  I plan to take some pics of the outside tomorrow.  Without further ado, here’s the album.  Feel free to ignore any messiness.  :)

Get A Life

Usually, I don’t care all that much what other people do.  Everybody seems to be obsessed with Facebook nowadays, and while I haven’t jumped on the bandwagon, it’s not a big deal to me that anybody else has.

This story has me feeling a bit differently.  Seriously, people panicked when Twitter went down?  I could definitely understand a reaction like that to Hotmail or Gmail–any big email provider.  After all, you get bills and other important things there.  What Ashton Kutcher is doing at this exact moment is not important.

Here’s an obligatory Penny Arcade on the topic.

The finally pushed me over the edge…

Of all the stupid things our government has done, this has got to be close to the top of the list:

They bought 3 luxury jets

After seeing this story, I finally got angry enough to write my congressman for the first time. They pushed my off the edge of indifference. They have unleashed my wrath in the form of a polite letter to an authority figure. God help them.