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“The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it’s a world or a relationship. Everything has its time. And everything ends.” ~ Sarah Jane Smith, Doctor Who School Reunion

Sorry for the kind of depressing quote. Just thinking about our country. More than even during the horrific Bush years (when I started blogging) I believe we are witnessing the decline and fall of the United States, and it saddens me to see what we’ve become.

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.” ~ William Butler Yeats

We may be able to slow the process down somewhat by making good, progressive choices in November, but I really have no hope that we’ll be able to reverse course completely. This is not the dream of the 21st Century that we were presented with as children…

Where is that man in the blue box when you need him?

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…and don’t tears welling up in your eyes, don’t watch this.

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Would you go with this man if he showed up at your front door standing beside a blue box?

In a heartbeat. In a fucking heartbeat.

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“I don’t see anyone in the GOP majority demanding drug testing for folks who receive oil and gas subsidies.” ~ Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)

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Idle cameras are the Devil’s plaything.

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Rick Santorum is so homophobic I cannot wait for the meth-and-male-hooker scandal to erupt.  You know it’s coming…

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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” ~ Greek Proverb

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I am so sick of these fucking Republican assholes.

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…from my dad, after reading about my plan to start taking public transit to work on snow days.

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“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” ~ David Foster Wallace

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“You know, when you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all: Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid…and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker…and so much madder…and so much better” ~ Elton,  from the Doctor Who episode Love & Monsters

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I had every intention of writing a personal “year in review” post last night, but frankly, after running around all day I simply had no motivation. While I did manage to be awake to ring in the new year with my Ben, I had been napping in my chair most of the evening.  Ah, the joys of getting older. Stuff they never told you in school…

I’m still not motivated, and since it’s now January 1st, it’s probably better to just look ahead.  As of tomorrow (while not actually being there) I begin work as a permanent employee of the firm I’ve been contracting at since August. This goes a long way toward making Denver feel a little more like home.

Something I’m also looking forward to in 2012 is the fact that Anderson will be paid off in June.

This will free up a wad of cash that almost compensates for the difference between what I’m earning now and what I was making in Phoenix. Almost. In any case it will at least initially allow me to catch up on some much needed vehicle maintenance that I’ve been putting off.

And of course we have months and months of the circus sideshow that are the Republican primaries to look forward to. As it stands right now, the most anticipated event for me in 2012 will be hearing the concession speech of  whichever right-wing loon ends up with the nomination after Obama whups their ass on November 6th.

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Yeah, I was on kind of a roll today…

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The other day I happened to hover my cursor over the battery icon on my task bar and I was surprised to see “Service Battery.” I tried all the home-brew fixes suggested on the interwebs, but to no avail. I realized I was going to have to make a trip to the Apple Store. I was not looking forward to this, or to potentially being without my laptop for an extended period—especially on a holiday weekend. But the one glimmer of hope I had was reading online that if I got the machine in early enough, the non-user-replaceable battery could usually be swapped out that day.

I went ahead and made an appointment to bring it in, and this morning we arrived at the Cherry Creek Apple Store promptly at 10 am. While it took about 20 minutes after checking in to meet with a Genius, and I was expecting the worst, not only did they have the battery in stock, the in-house tech was able to swap out the battery—not in hours or days, but in about fifteen minutes…and because I had the foresight to purchase Apple Care when the laptop was new, it cost me nothing.

Bravo, Apple.

This type of service is why I am a Fanboy.

 

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