A Little Bit of Nuttin

It's been so long since I've posted anything, I thought I should make a special effort to get something written today. The thing is, I'm totally out of practice and can't really get my brain to function in anything but a "gotta hurry up and get 277 more things done before the day ends today so I don't get my lazy ass fired" mode.

Not that work has been quite that crazy, but it has been much busier than I would prefer. And, being apparently incapable of accepting the fact that I'm behind and learning to live with it, I keep trying to catch up every day, even though I actually manage to fall further and further behind every day. So today, instead of stressing about it, I'm just giving up and trying to remember how to blog. So bear with me.

Here are a few of the things that have popped into my brain over the past few weeks that I thought might make good blog topics, but which never actually made it into written form:

• Those crazy (and, boy do I mean c-r-a-z-y) Fishers on Six Feet Under are one whacked bunch of people. My head was just spinning at how whacked they were in last night's episode, and I'm thinking they're not all gonna survive their collective mental illness. What's truly scary to me is that the writers of the show are even capable of dreaming up so many people who are so f-'d up.


• Those crazy Saudi's must be loving life right about now. With oil somewhere in the vicinity of $67 a barrel (I haven't bothered to notice the actual price today), they must be raking in about 1% of the entire planet's combined wealth just about every day. Doesn't take long at that rate for them to become actually pretty powerful. I'd love to buy a new sports car that uses premium gas, but I'm thinking that's not actually a very good idea at the moment. I think I need to buy a bike instead.


• Those crazy Republicans must be feeling kind of silly right about now. The president doesn't seem to me to be having a very successful start to his second term - his approval ratings are tanking, his big massive social security reform plan seems to be stuck in its tracks, his glorious effort to spread freedom and democracy around the world has ended up so far with a war that seems to be more and more out of control everyday, his "architect" has been exposed as either having committed a serious crime or come very close to it, and they've got a Senatorial candidate running in New York against Hillary who doesn't appear to be the brightest kid in the class. Of course, it's easy to sit on this side and list all the faults and shortcomings, but still. I keep shaking my head everyday thinking, "how did this guy get re-elected?" Unfortunately, I think that says just about as much about the Democrats as it does about the Republicans. But, being the Democrat I am, I prefer to focus on the other side's problems.

Anyway, that's about all I can muster for today. Tune in again tomorrow to see if I managed to actually think of anything interesting to write about.

Comments

[RcktMan]

Well let it be known that everything you've been thinking, I've been thinking too. I just haven't wrote about it in my own little blog. Still... I'm thinking it. So that makes it interesting. :)

[Scott-O-Rama]

As screwed up as the Republicans look right now, I'm afraid the Democrats (of which I'm one) may be worse. We've got to get organized now if we stand a chance in 2006 and 2008.