1000 buffalo stampede

I’ve had my new refrigerator for about 2 weeks now, and I’ve very pleased. The old one took a dive a few months ago, came back to life (or half-life), and I’d been puttering around looking at new ones.

The old one - which came with the house - had all the fancy ice maker options and filtered water and such (some of which was the reason it went down in the first place, I think) and side-by side doors / freezer.

The new one is a freezer below model, as a pull out drawer (with ice maker), and the top is a two-door style.

It’s a little smaller than the old one, but has more than enough space I think.

Hey, they got a budget passed. Maybe next time on time, huh?

Not surprising, still no California budget. And everyone’s hurting.

With the exception of the “leaders” who are supposed to be “getting the job done” that is.

Once again: if they were looking it their own looming layoffs, foreclosures, and financial melt-downs, I’m confident they’d get the job done.

But hey, they’re not - so, let’s enjoy their ideology first, citizen last policy.

And… once again, free fucking advice, “leaders”: shut down the tax exemption for download of software, and implement the sales tax on professional services.

Ah, why even bother - you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make the brain dead think.

Once again (or just the continuing saga), the California legislative “leaders” continue to be unable to do their jobs.

“Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders won’t meet again until Monday as they search for a $42 billion solution to the state’s budget woes … That makes it likely the state will delay payments to vendors and refunds to taxpayers. It also means furloughs for state employees are likely to start Friday.” (AP via SF Gate)

Exemplary! That’s the way to run a state … into the ground. No decision, staunch partisanship, and why even care that we won’t be able to pay state vendors, workers, and tax payers (who all did their jobs).

But, hey, as long as those “leaders” are getting their paychecks, it’s all good, eh?

If it were my call - and right now, I wish dearly it was - those “leaders” would be locked in session with suspended salaries until they came out with a proper budget and a win. Their inability to meet, compromise and do their fracking jobs is utterly unacceptable, and that they expect … no, demand that others go without while they frack around reaches the level of criminal bullshit.

Let’s see how long they back political ideologies when their salaries are at risk, their mortgages in danger, and their future very frighteningly uncertain.

Or, let’s just arrest them and throw them in jail for criminal negligence and see if the next batch of politicians get the message.

… and, instead of debating about jacking up my income taxes or sales tax, etc., how about you reinstate normal sales tax on software downloads and professional services in the state?

It’s been a productive weekend, which is just what I needed in a couple respects. One, with Jenna out of town at the start of her apprenticeship, I definitely needed to be busy. Second, I’m hugely busy and backlogged on professional and personal projects.

Past work stuff, the major accomplishment was the recovery of my music and other digital media. The iMac crashed the other quarter - hard drive failure it seems - and with everything going on at the time, restoring it got put on the back burner. Extra frustratingly so when I learned it was out of warranty and coverage. Joy.

This weekend, I had some time in between work, to focus on the recovery process. It took about 8+ hours to get the data, restore it and set up a new library accessible to the laptop (and therefore the tv). Along the way, I got my backlogged episodes downloaded and added (mainly Stargate Atlantis Season 5 and BSG webisodes).

Throw in some additional time resetting and resigning the wireless network for the Manor, including some network attached storage for media access and back ups (and redundancy). All of which sets me up for a good year of networking.