A Bad Start, an Ugly End

So I'm giving contact lenses another try, what with the hot new technology out for astigmatics like me, and had a totally comfortable and unblurry test drive yesterday.  But it probably wasn't a good start to stay up late and fall asleep with the things in on my first day, dammit.

Also, I wonder if strangers and friends alike whom I see during the day notice the fact that I'm wearing two totally different-colored socks, and see right through to my dirty little secret, that I am at the very, very, desperate end of my laundry cycle.

(Seriously, though, I really am wearing clean underwear.  Really.)

Better Than I Deserve

As some of you are aware, I am currently experiencing a bit of difficulty with my roommate.  Living with the level of toxicity that's developed right in my home, and the anxiety over my future living situation, has surely been trying, but I must say there's been one hell of a silver lining to the whole business.  The amount of support, both moral and material, that has been offered by my friends has really blown me away, particularly since there's no argument to be made that I had it coming.  So, thanks everybody.  Clearly, I'd better start being a hell of a good person or the karmic load is going to squash me like a bug.

A Brief Comment

You know, this blog looks like ass.  I have to learn some CSS or something.

I Could Be Even Geekier

I haven't taken much interest in video games since Tempest (although there were those very fun few days in the mid-90's when all I did at work was play Myst).

This, however, could make a gamer out of me yet: create your own primitive life form, and take it all the way through evolution to interplanetary travel.  On a Mac, no less.  How can I resist that?

This is What You Call Structural Change

This policy outline by Obama, and this endorsement of him, make me feel better about the prospect of an Obama presidency than anything else I've read or heard. The candidates have all kinds of dreamy stuff to say about what they're gonna do in office, but if the underlying problems with our system are ever going to be fixed, this is the kind of thing it will take. My biggest fear about the post-Bush era is that as much of an improvement as any not-Bush president will be, the mess he's leaving with respect to balance-of-power might never be cleaned up.

Democracy has to cure in sunlight if you really want it to adhere well and endure.