This weekend I purchased my textbook for my summer class: 1100+ pages on ASP .NET development for “professionals.” I have six months of java under my belt. This does not make me a professional, just an ambitious amateur. This future class is adding to my current pressure–that of my final Exam–causing me to take a serious look at what I am doing now and what my goals are.
Normally, I think this wouldn’t be a huge problem. While I would be worried and tense, I have ways of coping. But all these concerns are occuring around the 9th. This anniversary marks seven years without my dad. Usually, all my mental energy is directed at coping with grief, not with school crap.
Instead of writing, reading or coding, I’m laying about the house. Included is a picture of my foot.
Oh, this post was so much better, but the phone lost it.
Today would by my dad’s 65th birthday. Today is also our wedding shower. The pairing is intentional.
I would love to write about how much my dad would love Shannon and her family. But I can’t write about my dad without talking about my mom…and I can’t really do that today. Too much to do. That being said, I plan on being over served in her honor.
I know she would be drinking with Shannon and her friends.
My clients are late, their phone is disconnected and I’m in markham. I do not have access to the usual “eval writing distractions” that are necessay to blowing off steam (Twitter, gtalk, music).
Oh well. I still have my coffee.
Since setting up WTTRP, I’ve tried to keep a wall between WoW Nerd stuff and Old Fashioned Nerd stuff. I planned on changing that in the near future, as I’ve planned to put up some fiction I’ve been working on. I’m breaking the wall early to show how to stick up for someone via the internets.
My friend Anna has two blogs: one for WoW one for Not Wow. She’s helped me with baking, we’ve bounced ideas off each other for writing things (blog posts, fiction, political stuff) and she sent me delicious Christmas cookies. She shared me a link, now deleted, about an event that was supposed to take place in game. In short, this event was going to target people “bad RPers with other RP.”
Folks, this is just bullying other people. If you don’t like something, or someone, on a video game you ignore them. You don’t go around mocking them.
Instead of writing a passive aggressive blog post, kvetching or just letting it lie there, Anna took that post to task. As of this writing, aside from one consistent troll, she’s made a pretty positive impact on the nerd community. She took on the nastiness with a well written post that didn’t devolve into name calling, cursing or spitting. That’s how you defend people on the internets: Passionately and with grace.
via Chief Justice Roberts ‘Troubled’ by Scene at the State of the Union – ABC News.
Roberts said Tuesday that he was “very troubled” by the “setting, circumstance and decorum” of the State of the Union speech, where justices are forced to sit expressionless while Congress “literally surrounds them,” at times cheering and hollering.
Six of the nine justices of the Supreme Court were sitting in the audience, and the cameras captured Justice Samuel Alito shaking his head in disagreement when Obama said, “With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates.”
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A Judge is supposed to be impartial. Given that a Supreme Court Justice is the epitome of the Judicial Branch, they should exemplify this behavior. Its they’re goddamn job to be professional when others are “cheering, hollering” or applauding.
If a justice applauded when Obama talked about Health Care Reform, he or she would be lambasted by the Right. I have no doubt in my mind that Chief Justice Roberts would lead that charge. His complaint about “the decorum” is utter and total bullshit.
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