Props to Leelu for the news

Alaska Women Reject Palin

The part about the conversative radio host makes my stomach turn. He's a maggot hypocrite, himself.

Igor is a popular boy

Not only is Igor shaming me with all his facebook friends..... but now he gets a cute litte movie in his honor.

It makes me want to watch Nightmare Before Christmas again. They even make the scientist look like Burton's.

Jon Stewart is a Stud

I've always liked Jon Stewart. Now I think I might have a crush on him.

The video is old, still pretty cool. His intro from September 20, 2001... coming back on air after the NYC terrorist bombings.

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/43270/The_Daily_Show_9_11.html

Blogger is Killing Me

Ever since we've changed to the new computer and Vista, my browser freaks out trying to sign on to Blogger. Some days it resolves itself and will cooperate if I come back to it later. Today it just wants to make me (further) neurotic.

One wedding down, another later tonight. Who knew the local museum of natural history was the happening place for social functions? We went to a wedding there in July, one this month, and have been there for a couple of other functions.

Met my dad's cousin from Wichita today. Kinda made my dad sad, since he's realized "there aren't a lot of us left." From my grandmother Holt's family, there were five Cropp kids. Uncle Elvis died when I was still in school. Aunt Hazel died right after I got married. Aunt Minnie died right as 2001 ended, and Gma (Ruby) died in 2003. Only Aunt Edith is left. She nor Hazel had any children. Between Elvis, Minnie, and Ruby, they have only a handful of surviving heirs. My dad is Ruby's only bio child, although she had four other stepchildren.

Most of the time, I don't feel bad for not having more children. I've never bought into the theory that you have to have children to prove you're a success in life. But after watching my dad talk to his cousin, who has eight grandchildren, and three more on the way, it makes me a bit remorseful.

All in all, it is a fleeting guilt. My parents are comparatively young, close to retirement, but not yet 60. Then after they got divorced and remarried, they've been busy working and rebuilding their home lives. Even should I have had a number of children, they were still too busy in their own lives to be a big influence.

My Seattle brother and his wife are expecting a baby mid-January. We tease my parents that even 15 years they get a new grandchild, whether they've earned it or not. Andrea jokes we really don't have to wait that long! Maybe I can rent grandchildren for them. At the rate my siblings and I are going, they won't have great grandchildren until they are 90.

Buttons are an Underrated Fashion Statement

Dan is much more funny and effective with is political coverage. Could be because he's bald?

Regardless, he gave a picture reason to rip off his blog today:

I dislike Sarah Palin even more with every new story.

Not Rainy Days, but Mondays Get Me Down

A new week at the new job site... a new way to be locked out of my system. Today it was the fact I needed to reset my login password.

Easy enough, other than the server dishing out our connection is at the old site. So it still considered me locked out. It took me calling my info to the tech over there and having them log in as me (over there) to convince the splitter here I was legit. Thankfully we are in the last couple of weeks of split personality.

Barring a cosmic or karmic backlash for optimism, I should be able to spend most of the week nights home with my boys. Only have to work one more night this week. Two weddings on Saturday, both sides of the family.

And Happy Birthday to my girl Donna M! She was my divorce settlement. A former sister in law, still my home girl.

Quickie

Have been working a lot, both places.

At least our team is moved out to Forbes and is set up. Tomorrow we'll start unpacking and try to get back to normal. My boss and best girl go to Alabama on the 8th for a week. Can't say that I'm jealous, especially during hurricane season. Pretty soon Sharona and I will have to go to Oklahoma to learn their system. Yee freaking haw.

McCain (and his choice for veep) makes me want to puke. Thankfully I don't put much stock into polls. My vote is not going to be reflected on any poll. I don't answer the phone for solicitation or telemarketing calls. That includes political parties.

Chiefs fan are going to have a long (and torturous) season.