Catching Up
Oct. 21st, 2008 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxI don't know what's sucking up all of my time. Somehow there never seems to be any of it. I'm always behind, so if I'm slow answering people comments, I'm not ignoring you. I'm just slow.:)
One thing I have done is clean the whole house in an effort to forestall a flea explosion (too late for the guest room. That I had to bug bomb). And I washed the cat the other night. Ever wash a cat? Not fun. Listening to the creature you would think I was torturing her to death. Poor baby. But I do want to get all of the fleas off of her.
We've completed the move to the new office. Physically it's only a mile closer to my home than the old office, but I reach it via a far less traveled road, so though the distance is pretty much unchanged, the commute is easier. So, yay on that score. I also like that in the new office they've installed an ice machine and have water filtered tap. That's been convenient as I resolved several months ago to give up carbonated diet sodas and thus have restricted myself to water, tea, and coffee.
Thought Sarah Connor Chronicles was pretty good last night.
Thought this weeks' Mad Men was also pretty excellent -- yay, Peggy and poor Joan.
Watched the final episodes of The Tudors Season 2 and... I'm hooked. Okay, yes, I know that like some other shows (*cough*Rome*cough* and *cough*Deadwood*cough*) they employ some fictionalized history, but I still enjoyed it. Now I need to rent Season 1 (nothing like watching a show backwards, is there?)
Have received the latest AtS comic, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Have been listening to the non-fiction book Hot, Flat, and Crowded, and listening to Neil Gaimen's latest The Graveyard Book. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is quite informative (though veers into propagandizing. Still, there are several things of interest in it). And The Graveyard Book (Orphan is adopted by ghosts and raised in a graveyard) has been quite amusing and enjoyable thus far... and quite seasonal as well. :)
And I'm ready for this election season to be over (with the caveat that I seriously, seriously want my candidate of choice to win). But, on a personal level, it's bad enough that things are growing exceedingly ugly with the election in the world at large, but it's also growing ugly within my family. I've mentioned before that my sister and I had a three day argument over the election, ending with a "we won't speak of this again or there may be hard feelings" impasse. But, this weekend, my Mom suggested that my sis watch "Meet the Press" only for my sis to go off on my mother. And my mother, who is volatile in her own right... well, things are not happy between them at the moment. (Actually, it's probably just my mom that continues to be angry. Sis has a way of concluding that she is categorically right and dismissing any opinions that differ from her own as irrelevant). I sympathize with my Mom. Mom was being rational and just requesting that my sister expose herself to a view different from her own (specically, just listen to Colin Powell's reasoning). My sister on the other hand has reached the point of believing that any political view that differs from hers is 'liberal brainwashing.' *sigh* You would think that I had joined a militant communist party bent on taking over the world or something from the reaction my sister has had. Quite honestly, I find it to be ridiculous. It's not even that we're trying to change my sister's vote, just trying to expose her to other views. I find it disillusioning that my sister's reaction is pretty much the metaphorical equivalent of shoving her fingers in her ears and going "lalalala, I can't hear you!" That and "if you vote differently than I do, you're trying to destroy my family's livelihood!."
My response to my mother is that though my sister may believe that my mother's and my beliefs about the election are an attempt to 'destroy everything,' but my sister is wrong -- wrong about what she thinks we believe, wrong in not researching more to understand what she's protesting against in realistic terms rather than simplistic, biased talking points, and wrong in only listening to herself and voices exactly like her own. Listen first and then make an informed decision, don't simply keep oneself to a small corner where you are never challenged by more than what you already know.
I'm voting for what I believe... and that's all I need in order to be satisfied. I'm only saddened that my sister has become so resistant to hearing ideas that differ from her own.
Finally, happy news, congratulations to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rahirah and wildrider on their wedding. Much happiness to you both!
One thing I have done is clean the whole house in an effort to forestall a flea explosion (too late for the guest room. That I had to bug bomb). And I washed the cat the other night. Ever wash a cat? Not fun. Listening to the creature you would think I was torturing her to death. Poor baby. But I do want to get all of the fleas off of her.
We've completed the move to the new office. Physically it's only a mile closer to my home than the old office, but I reach it via a far less traveled road, so though the distance is pretty much unchanged, the commute is easier. So, yay on that score. I also like that in the new office they've installed an ice machine and have water filtered tap. That's been convenient as I resolved several months ago to give up carbonated diet sodas and thus have restricted myself to water, tea, and coffee.
Thought Sarah Connor Chronicles was pretty good last night.
Thought this weeks' Mad Men was also pretty excellent -- yay, Peggy and poor Joan.
Watched the final episodes of The Tudors Season 2 and... I'm hooked. Okay, yes, I know that like some other shows (*cough*Rome*cough* and *cough*Deadwood*cough*) they employ some fictionalized history, but I still enjoyed it. Now I need to rent Season 1 (nothing like watching a show backwards, is there?)
Have received the latest AtS comic, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Have been listening to the non-fiction book Hot, Flat, and Crowded, and listening to Neil Gaimen's latest The Graveyard Book. Hot, Flat, and Crowded is quite informative (though veers into propagandizing. Still, there are several things of interest in it). And The Graveyard Book (Orphan is adopted by ghosts and raised in a graveyard) has been quite amusing and enjoyable thus far... and quite seasonal as well. :)
And I'm ready for this election season to be over (with the caveat that I seriously, seriously want my candidate of choice to win). But, on a personal level, it's bad enough that things are growing exceedingly ugly with the election in the world at large, but it's also growing ugly within my family. I've mentioned before that my sister and I had a three day argument over the election, ending with a "we won't speak of this again or there may be hard feelings" impasse. But, this weekend, my Mom suggested that my sis watch "Meet the Press" only for my sis to go off on my mother. And my mother, who is volatile in her own right... well, things are not happy between them at the moment. (Actually, it's probably just my mom that continues to be angry. Sis has a way of concluding that she is categorically right and dismissing any opinions that differ from her own as irrelevant). I sympathize with my Mom. Mom was being rational and just requesting that my sister expose herself to a view different from her own (specically, just listen to Colin Powell's reasoning). My sister on the other hand has reached the point of believing that any political view that differs from hers is 'liberal brainwashing.' *sigh* You would think that I had joined a militant communist party bent on taking over the world or something from the reaction my sister has had. Quite honestly, I find it to be ridiculous. It's not even that we're trying to change my sister's vote, just trying to expose her to other views. I find it disillusioning that my sister's reaction is pretty much the metaphorical equivalent of shoving her fingers in her ears and going "lalalala, I can't hear you!" That and "if you vote differently than I do, you're trying to destroy my family's livelihood!."
My response to my mother is that though my sister may believe that my mother's and my beliefs about the election are an attempt to 'destroy everything,' but my sister is wrong -- wrong about what she thinks we believe, wrong in not researching more to understand what she's protesting against in realistic terms rather than simplistic, biased talking points, and wrong in only listening to herself and voices exactly like her own. Listen first and then make an informed decision, don't simply keep oneself to a small corner where you are never challenged by more than what you already know.
I'm voting for what I believe... and that's all I need in order to be satisfied. I'm only saddened that my sister has become so resistant to hearing ideas that differ from her own.
Finally, happy news, congratulations to
rahirah and wildrider on their wedding. Much happiness to you both!
