Damn, I don’t belive it. It’s Noon, and I have only been up for about fifteen minutes. Haven’t slept in link this in a long time. It was a pretty long week though. Didn’t leave work until around 11:15 last night, stopped in to Mellow Mushroom and had a couple of beers on the way home. By the time I msde it home I stayed up for probably another hour just winding down before I crashed.
I sort of dimly remember one of my kids waking me up this morning for a minute or two, but other than that I slept like the dead. Have to go to Carrollton soon and get an outfit for my seven year old for some party she is going to tonight, and a hard drive for a PC I am working on for a co-worker. Shit, not enough time for everything today. I had also planned on putting in another flower garden, but that can wait until tommorow.
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Angel of Retribution
Oh hell yeah. I don’t get too overly excited by alot, but Judas Priest got back together last year and they have just released their new album, Angel of Retribution. I have only heard the first couple of songs as it downloads from iTunes, but all I can say is Classic Priest. This kicks ass.
Something stupid when I should be sleeping
bold the states you’ve been to, underline the states you’ve lived in and italicize the state you’re in now…
Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /
Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you.
iTunes redux
Quite awhile back I wrote a really bad review about iTunes. I have since started to actually use it. It seems to have improved greatly since the first Windows version. I prefer the interface for purchasing and downloading music. As far as playing, I think that I still prefer WMP, or my front-end (Meedio), but it is not half bad. My only problem with it is that I have to burn my purchsed music to CD, then re-rip them to get mp3 format because I cannot play the protected aac files from Meedio on my HTPC. If that were corrected, or Meedio added iTunes support, that would kick ass.
New Orleans Here We Come
Just bought plane tickets and hotel rooms for Stephanie and I towards the end of March. Woot! Arranged for childcare for Anna and Ruth. I will still need to call one of Christopher’s friends (parents) to see if he can stay over for a couple of nights. Stephanie and the girls are out on spring break that week, but Chris is not, so he will have to stay with a schoolmate.
I cannot remember the last time that Stephanie and I did ANYTHING for more than one day without at least one of the children. I am sure that we have, but I don’t remember when. Possibly our anniversary 17 years ago.
Goddamn I am looking forward to this. Going to be too expensive, but fuck it.
Will have to make sure to take my camera. If I can get ahold of a laptop for the weekend I may do some blogging. Otherwise will just have to save everything and post when I get back.
The difference between the USA and Europe

Ran across this here. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Some fairtax links and stuff (H.R.25)
I am very big on the Fairtax Act. I’ve come across several articles and links this morning that pertain to Tax reform and the Fairtax Act (H.R. 25 and S.25).
St. Petersburg Times.
Washington Times. Not much in this article, it is mainly about Johnny Isakson, a supporter of the act. I voted for him this time around, mainly because he is a backer.
Chicago Sun-Times. Not really abou the Fairtax, but some of the links just show different ideas which all add up to the fact that U.S. Citizens wat tax reform.
Top Ten Reasons to Support the Nonpartisan Fair Tax Legislative Package-HR 25. This is posted at the Conservative Voice. Unfortunately, most of the liberal sites that I visit do not belive in Economic Conservatism, so there are not too many sites that will mention reform, which is really funny, as most Republicans seem to want to increase spending almost as much as liberals, but at least they are willing to discuss reform. Most “Democrats” (yes, I know I am lumping them all together) seem to think the only place we can cut spending is on defense, as ANYTHING else we might cut spending on seems to affect Veterans, Children, Old People, or Education. Can’t cut anything there, and particularly not welfare.
H.R.25. The actual bill itself. A must read whether you hate it or love it. Can’t exactly argue against it effectively if you haven’t even bothered to fucking read it can you now.
H.R.25 Co-Sponsors. As of the first of the year there was one sponsor and 54 co-sponsors. One lone democrat with some sense.
A debate on the bill. Looks like it has been over a month since anyone has posted.
An article that explains in pretty simple terms how it would affect you
John Linder is the sponsor of H.R.25.
FEC complaints against several poeple and organizations that grossly misrepresented the Fairtax Act during the last election.
The FairTax: A Trojan Horse for America? This starts to read as a pretty good article on why NOT to support the act, but once I finished reading it my reactions was that whoever wrote the article was full of conspiracy theories about what “might” happen. At least they read the act, which is more than I can say about 99% of the DNC.
David L. Kendall, a Professor of Economics & Finance at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise.
The Fairy Tales that liberals tell”.
Representative Nancy Pelosi and Other Democrats are Out in Left Field.
A bunch of links related to the Fairtax.
Social Security and the Baby Boomers: What Could Have Been
Found this interesting article at the Heritage foundation about Social Security reform. Apparently the report is based upon data from the US Census bureau as well as the Federal Reserve.
It would be really nice the see some SS reform in my lifetime.
CNN.com – White House wants states to help fund intercity rail – Feb 21, 2005
Just more bullshit. I agree wholeheartedly with the President. Propping up Amtrak with subsudies is bullshit. Amtrak is a business. Either it is a profit making business or it needs to fold and let someone else take over. Cutting down, or completely out, the subsidies that keep Amtrak afloat is probably going to be the only way to get some kind of reform and force them to get their shit together.
I see the big airlines such as Delta in the same light. The government needs to quit propping them up with my tax money. There are profitable airlines out there, and if the big airlines go bust, other companies that know how to actually conduct business will fill in the gaps.
BeyondTV
I really like using BeyondTV, but hate it that when I move shows out of the default directory, most of the information about the show is lost. I could move them using the web interface, but that is a pita, have to do it one at a time, and it is slow. I wish that the information was retained differently. I keep my videos spread out on five different drives, and when I go to move them into each shows directory would like to keep each shows info.