I’ve been letting my hair get longer lately, mostly I’m too busy/lazy to go get a haircut.
I got out of the shower this morning and took a look at myself in the mirror…to see a headfull a grey hair.
heh…it was kind of funny. My reddish-blond hair gets really dark when it’s wet…except for all the grey parts now. When it’s dry, the grey gets hidden.
Not a bad thing. I’ve told Jo many times if I go grey or bald, that’s just the way it is.
It was just…odd.
Bush Says He Tried to Avoid War ‘To The Max,’ Explains How God Shapes His Foreign Policy
Bush also explained, in unusually stark terms, how his belief in God influences his foreign policy. “I base a lot of my foreign policy decisions on some things that I think are true,” he said. “One, I believe there’s an Almighty. And, secondly, I believe one of the great gifts of the Almighty is the desire in everybody’s soul, regardless of what you look like or where you live, to be free.
“I believe liberty is universal. I believe people want to be free. And I know that democracies do not war with each other.”
After going back over to the Mac, I pretty much just settled into using Safari for my browsing needs.
I had used and promoted Firefox while still a PC user. I was impressed, and continued to use it on my work PCs contently.
Well, something changed.
All these new 2.0 apps and sites started surfacing, and lo…Safari just hasn’t been up to the task.
Don’t get me wrong, Safari still renders and works beautifully…indeed, sites just look better on Safari…but it’s not a widely supported browser, so all the new toys and sites I really want to try and use…well I can’t.
This was not such a big deal until Google Calendar. I’ve been looking for a webcal to use for quite some time, and was about settled on 30 Boxes (still a very good solution) but then Google hit and it was just magnificent.
Aside from the usability, it’s the options it provides for notifications and sharing. Really impressive. The tie-ins with Gmail are also a nice plus.
But it wouldn’t work nice with Safari.
Urgle
So I loaded up a copy of Firefox, tricked it out with some extensions and a Google Toolbar, and it’s now my primary browser for my Mac.
I’m gonna go with this for a week. If I can deal, it stays. If not, Google Calendar becomes a bookmark on my toolbar and it’s back to Safari I go.
Oh yeah, I also changed the way I use my desktop, but that’s for another post.
Seems that the White House has approached Tony Snow of FOX News if he’d like to take the Press Sec. job.
As Jo pointed out to me, “FOX has done a good job of promoting the Pres. thus far.”
The Cheney Administration is pursuing a “diplomatic” solution with Iran…for doing the exact thing we invaded Iraq over?
Who else aside from Bush actually wants Rummy to stay?
Why?
The line calling for the man’s papers is getting longer and starting to leak into Congress.
With the ‘06 Elections just around the corner, I can’t imagine why Bush would allow him to stay on.
I’m honestly curious about this. I really don’t have a clue as to the current political strategy of the Bush Admin., it’s been a mystery to me since early ‘05. I’d be interested in hearing opinion on it.
Milwaukee is near-fanatical about it’s recycling program. So much so that a few years ago when I dumped some cans and bottles in a normal trash can, I found a “warning ticket” on my door from the garbage man. If I did it again, I would be fined.
Well…OK. I guess if it’s that important, I can play along. (I won’t get into how useless most recycling is in this post)
Imagine my surprise this morning when I saw the garbage truck dumping all the garbage and recycling into the same truck. No separation, no sorting, just all in the same hopper.
WTF? I mean, we’re told near endlessly by the city about how serious this is and how much we’re helping the city, the state and the planet by sorting our garbage. They’ve spent millions on education campaigns and ads, made it unit-learning in the schools…Hell, they’ll ticket the homeless and scrap dealers for taking material that they feel belongs to them…and then you see something like this.
I’m interviewing for another counter position at the shop. This is not a “big time” position by any stretch of the imagination, it’s a simple retail service position that can fill a young person’s time up nicely.
I’d interviewed a few kids for it thus far and gotten much the same reaction from most of them. (”You gotta work at a game shop?!?”)
I talked to a nice young woman that I could have seen hiring. She was pretty bright, personable and seemed to have some good product knowledge.
But her face was full of piercings. I’m not talking about two or three, I’m talking about a few dozen…the kind that set of metal detectors.
Her choice. She has the right to wear stuff like that in her face or wherever else. But there’s no way I could hire her in on a shift where she would be the public face of the shop.
Now I’m sure that a music store or a coffee shop would have no problem with her appearance, but we’re a “family” shop…I dunno…the thought of it made me uneasy. I’d have no problem hiring her to work in the warehouse or something like that…or even a support position in the shop.
Again, her choice. But I’m curious to know…when she was getting a face full of metal, did she considered such things?
I’ve got a few tattoos that are pretty discrete. I can cover them all easily to present a more “normal” appearance. It was actually part of the consideration as to their placement. If I had a tattoo on my face, I could see where it would make someone uneasy or a bit hesitant to hire me on for some sort of public relation type position. (Some of the ink I’ve considered as of late would be a bit harder to hide, but that’s an entry for another time)
Now of course, I feel like a fucking tool, because I know if this same young woman had come to me with, say, a large unpleasant birthmark or something like that…I’d probably have no problem hiring her.
I fell off the wagon…I had a Coke.
Jo’s gone for the week, and Ben and I don’t eat…well during these times. It’s like living with a little frat boy.
Anyway, he’s been good for me, and as a reward he asked to go to McDonald’s. I got myself a double cheeseburger and a Coke…
It didn’t make me sick as it did before (perhaps because it was a fountain drink?) but it still made me feel dirty.
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