One Of These Rants Will Work

Wow!  The 2016 elections came sooner than I thought…oh wait…

Yeah...just on the off chance you thought we were done with all of the anger and rhetoric and vitriol...you're just so not. 

So, yesterday was election day.  Congratulations to everyone who won their race and to those who did not win, I hope you can bridge your ideological gaps with those who are now in office so you can all work together and bring in the best ideas regardless of the creator's position on the political spectrum to make sound policy decisions for your constituents.  

Thus endeth Jeremy's Political Fantasy.   

All we have now is to look forward to the next election, and I really with I was making this up...The Two After That.  Yes, a sitting senator is planning out the 2020 election.  Holy crap.  

 

Instead, we'll get lots and lots of partisan bickering through the media.  We'll get loads of name calling and hatred spewed all over everyone in office.  We'll get plenty of nonsensical pictures and politicized anecdotes on our social media, complete with missing facts and rhetorical fallacies.  The people waving flags and angry political signs will still be standing out on that street corner near my house every Saturday.  We'll get campaign mailings and commercials and radio appearances, each one spouting all sorts of reasons to hate the other person campaigning, with nary a single reason to vote FOR anyone. 

And everyone will wonder why we hate our politicians so much.   

Couldn't Have Thought Of This On Friday, Could You?

Lucky me!  Two consecutive Software Update days!  Yay!  

Jeremy loves Software Update Day.  It's his second favorite day after Password Day.  Incidentally, that's coming up later this week.  Stay tuned!


If you're like me, at any given time, you have about a dozen different windows open on your work desktop at any given time.  An email client, a web browser with a couple different tabs, a word processor document, a spreadsheet or two, maybe a Powerpoint presentation that you're working on, an instant messenger, your meeting calendar, a notepad window, a couple pdf's that you're supposed to be reading, but can never quite find a time to get through.  It's the way of things.

So every now and again, we're forced to install a new software update, usually for something that I never use, for a problem that I never have.  That update requires me to restart my computer.  

That means closing down my email client, all of my browser windows, my word processor, the spreadsheet...you get the idea.  It's annoying, and at least mildly unnecessary most times.  

Well, today marks the second consecutive work day that this nonsense has happened to me.  Great way to start off a monday.  Jerks. 

Craziness, I Tell You!

What’s this green stuff under my yard?

Well, it's about time you showed up here again, slacker.  

Yeah, well, disease will do that to you.  

Bird Flu happens, I guess.  Can I have your stuff?

 I've been sick for a few days, and I'm actually starting to feel somewhat productive again.  So combine that with all the work I haven't gotten done recently, and things are a little backlogged.  

So, imagine my surprise when Mother Nature flipped some switch and winter instantly turned into spring.  Last week, I'm having flight cancellations due to a giant snow storm, and like 2 days later, it's 60 degrees and springtime sunny outside.  Crazy, I know!  

Even crazier, my yard is starting to disappear, and I'm all perplexed.  See, I've had this thick white yard for about as long as I can remember, and I still have an amount of snow that would still be measured in feet, although the metric folks would have converted to centimeters a little while ago.  However, there are some isolated areas near shoveled places where the snow is starting to recede, leaving behind this strange green leafy stuff underneath.  I can't imagine what this substance is, or what I'm going to do if more of it starts invading my lovely snow lawn.  Help!!!