Two posts in one day?  Gross!  I had a backlog of stuff to say. 

Adding a new segment to the blog: Things People Need to Shut Up About

With the endless number of things one can find annoying, we should be a little more creative with our complaints.  To that end, here is a segment dedicated to things people need to STOP complaining about and why.  Move on to new things, you guys.  Some of this stuff just isn't going to change.  Our first subject?  Greenday.

Any time Greenday is mentioned in conversation someone inevitably complains that they have sold out or gotten pussified because they don't write songs about weed and masturbating anymore.  The members of Greenday are MARRIED ADULTS now.  They have children and mortgages, you guys.  When you grow up and have to pay bills and take care of kids you tend to have more serious issues on your mind.  If you're a musician, you're gonna write different songs.  Greenday's old work is still fun to listen to because it reminds us of when we had easier lives and time to burn, but we can't be angry that they've moved on.  Wanting your band to be remembered for something other than jizz jokes and marijuana references is not selling out.  It's growing up.  You don't have to like it, but stop acting like the guys betrayed you because American Idiot sounds nothing like Dookie.  Why would you look down on a band that actually DIDN'T make the same CD over and over?  Would you want to be stuck in your first job for the rest of your life?  Flipping burgers or scooping dog shit or whatever it is you did when you were 16?  No?  Then kindly shut the fuck up.

Our third cat is getting a new home soon!  An old school friend is going to take him, which is a good thing.  He will get more territory and attention and the girls will have less stress.  They tend to argue a lot right now.  I am happy it is all going to work out, but I will miss the little guy!  He is such a cutie and so affectionate.

It's time again for Happy, Sad, Weird!

Happy:   Better medicine for people living with HIV/AIDS.  Instead of having to remember the precise time to take 40 different pills, they can take just one now.  Hope it works, because that would be a lot easier to remember.  Kind of strapped for happy news today, but I just found out that dark galaxies exist and I think that's cool as hell, so maybe it counts?  Whole galaxies made of black holes and dark matter that you can't even see.  That is pretty freakin rad, okay? 

Sad:  The country of Syria no longer exists. In its place is a giant lake filled with the blood of the innocent. Annan is pretty pissed off, but as usual no one cares what he thinks because he's a pacifist.  It's not like he's gonna bust your door down, wave an Uzi in your face, and make you do something.  His opinion means about as much to the G20 as mine.

Also, every single species of lemur IN THE WORLD now shares a patch of rainforest the size of your backyard because Chinese people want hardwood floors and have cut the other trees down.  Or rather, they have paid the people who live on Madagascar less than $2 a day to cut the wood down for them, which they sell for a million bucks a pallet.  This money is not shared with the natives, so the natives also hunt and eat lemurs to survive.  It is not news that China is run by soulless automatons.  What depresses me about this is that the multi-film franchise Madagascar is capitalizing on the cuteness of dancing lemurs while doing NOTHING to educate people about their plight.  Not only are the movies an affront to aesthetics and indeed human intelligence in general, but they will probably still be making sequels even after THERE ARE NO LIVING LEMURS.  Because Hollywood is just about as heartless as China.  (Note: I have no problem with Chinese people in general, just the powers that be in that country and the extensive black market that thrives there.  The Chinese people are kept ignorant of many things by their restricted media and I don't blame them for not knowing what's going on, or for supporting their government.  Who wants to believe the people in charge are using them like so many batteries?  People embrace nationalism because the alternative is too depressing.  I get that.)

Also, SANDUSKY.  Not even going to elaborate.

Weird:  Hollywood is thinking about making an Aliens vs Dinosaurs movie, where the aliens are stand-ins for European settlers and the dinosaurs are stand-ins for the Native Americans.  Only they both lose?  They must because hello, mammals.  The aliens look like evil squid insects, by the way.  This guy has more details:  http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/

Let me tell you why I take so long to add new art to my websites!  I have a tendency to not scan my pictures into my computer for ages, so that I have a backlog of art I have not shared.  It is because I hate setting up my scanner.  First, I have to clear off my desk, which is basically where I leave every single object that I own, so it takes a long time to make enough space for my 13-in laptop to rest flat.   Then I have to untangle all the cords so that I can plug the scanner in to both the laptop and the wall outlet.  This is all the easy part.  Then I spend the next 30 minutes trying to get my computer to actually communicate with the scanner.  It knows the device is there, but because HP is a BRILLIANT company there are about 5,000,000 different applications and pathways that open the scanner and ONLY ONE ACTUALLY WORKS.
Finally, I perform the correct incantations and ritualistic dance choreography and the scanner warms up.  Then I spend another hour scanning in my pictures, because each one inevitably gets jostled, bent, or coated in dust and has to be re-scanned three times.  The final step is to load everything in Photoshop C2, which Adobe created for the sole purpose of overclocking computers and which I cannot afford to upgrade because I am out of school and don't get the student discount.  I clean more dust spots off and make sure everything is web sized.  Some pictures are combined.  I have to take lots of breaks because it hurts my eyes so bad, you guys, because I have a nystagmus.  Look it up.
All of this before I can upload the pictures on to my website, or blog, or deviantart gallery.
Now do you understand?

And don't recommend me other scanner brands.  I've used everything.  My EPSON failed in a most epic fashion.  They all suck and I just don't care.  I doooooon't caaaaare.