Good job, California

Really, only geniuses of an extremely high level of intellect could possibly conceive of such a daring plan as to ban open carry here in California.  Clearly, public safety is threatened by those unloaded weapons strapped to people's hips.  After all, someone might catch their death of a fright!!!  Or someone might even get bludgeoned with an empty gun!

What's more, gang bangers are clearly going to take the hint here and stop doing drive-by shootings and such, since our fair state is getting soooooo tough on gun crime.

Next up: Knife control.  Let's ban sharp and pointy things.  It's for the children.

Motherless son-of-a-BITCH

Microsoft bought Skype.  Yea, you read that right, they bought Skype....as if it didn't have enough problems or wasn't big enough.  Now, it'll take up 400% more hard drive space and RAM, mark my words.

GAH!

Had some connection problems....

...but they're fixed, mostly...for now.

In any case, I'm happy to hear the news that Bin Liner got sent off to his just reward, and his cronies are foaming at the mouth over his loss.

The continuing kitteh saga.

Oh god, here we go again.

Where the hell did these little guys come from?

One helluva Week

This last week has been hell, what with my mom winding up going to the ER with serious breathing problems, and all.  Fortunately, they figured out it was because of the pollen and crap in the air causing a serious allergic reaction, and not her heart as originally feared. 

Here's hoping this upcoming week will be more merciful..... Please?

The great kitteh drama

Well, not too long ago I found the following denizens outside my domicile:

These cute little guys were littered by the mother, a cat I called Mean Cat.  Yes, I use the past tense, because I found Mean Cat dead on my front lawn, and her kittens had been moved by her to my recycling can in my back yard.

Mean Cat is in the middle frame.

So, I was stuck with 5 kittens with a dead mother and no real way for me to take care of them.  Fortunately for them, there was another female who'd lost her only kitten around, one I call Snowflake.

She's taken 3 of them, and I think another feral female around here got the other 2.  I'll keep ya'll apprised as soon as I know something else.

Simple Consideration

...seems to be something that is becoming more and more rare these days.  What the hell is it with people?
Today, I was at the store to pick up a few things I needed and turned down a certain isle.  Blocking the aisle was an alleged woman with enough kids to field her own baseball team, none of them were being watched.  I had to pretty much slam on the brakes to keep from greasing my shopping cart's crappy wheels with Greasy Crotch Dumpling Ooze.  Said "woman" then turned and glared hatefully at my white ass simply because I was apparently invading her personal space some 8 feet away from her.  To be fair, I think she needed quite a bit of personal space, considering her size (Ok, I know...low hanging fruit... )


I said "excuse me," and waited for her to move her cart so I could grab the items I needed and GTFO.  She then sniffs kind of disdainfully at me, and turns back to her browsing, just ignoring me, while her brats ran rampant.  This, as Chibiangi knows, is one of the fastest ways to piss me off.  Seriously, you're going to get bitchy with me for attempting to go down an aisle you're occupying?  Common courtesy says if someone's transiting an aisle you're in, and you're not ready to leave quite yet, move either your own ass, or your cart out of the fucking way!
It certainly does not say "Glare hatefully and then ignore the requester as well as your own screaming brats. "

The cherry on top of the shit sundae?  I wound up in line BEHIND this woman.  In a store where you have to unload your own cart.  Needless to say, it took me a helluva long time before I got to check out.