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So you can just tell how your week is going to go when bright and early Monday morning you're stuck in the traffic from hell. No, seriously, it took 40 minutes to get from the 85 on ramp to Rengstorff on 101 this morning. Yes, you read that right, 40 minutes. If I could've easily gotten to the merge lane I'd have just taken El Camino. It's hellish in its own special way but at least it moves.

Also discovered yesterday that my bank account is much lower than I'd hoped and I get to pay rent this week. On the plus side this is the last month of lower rent, it goes up on December 1...lucky me. So this month I need to be much more careful about my money. I've pretty much finished my Xmas shopping so that should make budgeting easier. And as I've paid for everything this year rather than racking up credit card debt I won't have a miserable January to look forward to when I do my taxes.

It's the little things in life...

But I did have a lovely weekend, very relaxing. Even finished and posted my Snape After DH challenge and got a bit of very nice feedback so I'm pleased. Got one of my niece's project's finished and I just have one more that must be completed by the end of November so I think I can relax a bit on that front. All the gifts I've gotten shipped thus far are wrapped and ready to go (even divided up by those that need shipping and those that don't). For the first year in a while I feel prepared for Xmas before November 1st. That is a good feeling, my friends.

Got to spend a fantastic Saturday evening with tersa wherein we chatted, drank apple cider tea, ate some gorgeous Macintosh apples with caramel (the perfect combination, I might add) and watched some bad horror films. I'd brought along a good flick on dvd but her TiVo started freaking out and screaming, "DO NOT WANT!" until we figured out how to force eject it. Wacky.

Sunday I did very little by design except finally get my hair cut. I just went to the little place by Lucky's which is a short walk from my apartment. I walked right in and into a chair the whole thing took about 15 minutes and I walked out with a cut I liked. Friendly, cheap, and fast that is my kind of place. Spent the rest of the day relaxing out on the patio or lazing around the apartment. Even managed a short nap before dinner which I almost never do. But my weekend of sloth has paid off as my back is almost normal again. What's nice is to be able to drive for more than 10 minutes without pain shooting down my right leg all the way to my toes. Yeah, I can totally live without that.

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Sadly, No! is currently covering the most fantastic display of extreme right-wing cannibalism I've ever seen. What happens when paleocons and neocons start bickering about who's the bigger hater and who's a little liberal-loving pussy? Why just click the link, make yourself some popcorn, and prepare to have your reality shattered. It is truly some of the funniest shit I've ever seen.

My new favorite comment from Some Guy on the debacle:

Holy God. They’re really doing it. They’re ripping themselves apart at the seams. It’s fucking Megatron and Starscream in the right wing. That’s right. The best analogy for the current Republican base is a 80’s Japanese cartoon show about cars who care.

I was going to just snark about what kind of ass-twat prick of a douchebag loser boy you have to be to wear a 10-gallon hat around, but this is way more interesting. A howling free-for-all to prove you’re the most hateful, insane, ignorant, blood thirsty Major Kong.

In continuing my theme of 80’s Japanese culture; it’s like that scene in Godzilla 1984, where they’ve lured G into an active volcano, thus ending his destructive rampage, but as they watch him Big G fall to an agonizing death, they can’t help but feel sorry for him. Poor sonuvabitch.

**happy sigh**

Sharing the pain...

scar_let forwarded me the link to the Dragonlance trailer, and I'm sharing the pain with you:

Watch on YouTube

He commented that it's nice that the Thundarr the Barbarian animators are still getting work, and one of the commenters on the YouTube page summed up my own reaction quite nicely:

The only good animation in this bullshitting trailer is the paramount logo!!

This is truly a mess of epic proportions. At least it's going straight to video, but Jesus...