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Cirocco Jones
Here is a link to a well-written, eloquent discussion of Australia's law on same-sex marriage:
Whatever the gender, all marriages should be equal
The article is not snicker-worthy at all. But the Google Ad placed right under the headline, which reads Seeking a Wife? Latin American Women Marriage. 1000s Women Are Looking For Men. Amolatina.com kinda is :D :D :D
Current mood:
amused.
No, not racially mixed. Dormantly mixed. Chris, and no, I have no clue how he can manage this, has gone back to sleep despite the continued jackhammering. He can and does go to sleep and stay asleep through anything - partly because that's just who he is, partly because he spent years on a less-than-bare-minimum amount of sleep as a resident, and partly because of the brain damage.
I, on the other hand, wake up when a bloody fly lands on me, and can't go back to sleep to save my life.
Which makes mornings a joyful thing in our house, when Chris requires about an hour's worth of snooze alarms to get out of bed, and I wake up irrevocably after the first one. Which may be part of why we almost divorced during his residency, especially after the accident, when brain damage was added to an already soul-destroying situation.
::headdesk::
ETA: Tangent here: remember that justice of the peace who refused to marry an interracial couple, in part because in his opinion, children of mixed marriages seldom do well? Of all the millions of words expended to decry just how on earth this could still be happening in 2009, my favourite was this: "Yeah, well, he's probably really worried one of their kids will become President some day."
Current mood:
awake.
- Insomnia so bad I went to sleep at 5:00AM last night/this morning.
- Plumbers showing up at 8:00AM to start jackhammering our basement floor to install a drain.
::sigh::
Current mood:
cranky.
- Went biking today and biked right past Toys'R'Us twice, and neither boy even glanced in its direction, let alone asked to stop.
- In the right light, if you squint really hard, Daniel has the teeniest, tiniest bit of peach fuzz on his upper lip.
Current mood:
indescribable.Current music: Enya - If Every Man.
Um... OK. After spending the last couple of days tabbing around because my computer had decided it wanted no part of this "mouse" thing, all of a sudden today the mouse works.
??
Current mood:
confused.
My life flashed before my eyes today. Well, my e-life, anyway. My clunky old computer, that my mom bought in 2003 and that gets slower every day, decided it didn't care for this "mouse" thing attached to it, and refused to let me do anything with it. E-mail, write, log on… anything. We tried many different mice. No dice.
Chris, with what I'm sure was superhuman effort, avoided saying "I told you so" ('cause he's been telling me to get a Mac for ages) and helped me get things set up so I could do a little bit on it, tabbing around like an idiot. But it's time to get a new computer. The old one has been purged of just about everything I want to get rid of, but it's still all full and old and decrepit and needs to go to e-heaven.
::sigh::
Just in time for a fic deadline, too. Marvelous.
Current mood:
annoyed.
Got silver for pattern today. No big deal; I was one of only three women competing, and badly screwed up my pattern on the first try. Happily, my opponent apparently did hers completely wrong, so I didn't come in dead last. And my friend Winnie, on her first TKD tournament, beat me and got the gold. My opponent got to take home a gold too, when she beat me in sparring.
Justin got gold for sparring and silver for his pattern, or possibly the other way around. Daniel got silver for sparring. It was only a friendship tournament, but it's nice for the kids to compete and get something for their trouble, even if it's only within a very small competitive group. Helps their self-confidence.
Chris got nothing. He slept in. For a grown-up, that's probably the biggest prize of all :)
Current mood:
content.
Gay father handcuffed, family detained and banned from all Wal-Mart stores for NOT shoplifting?
Current mood:
annoyingly unsurprised.
Whoa. That was weird. The room just went totally silent for about 10-15 seconds. I'm in the big room at the community centre, were there are five large tables, 2 little ones, two sets of couches, a small food cafe, the main desk, a large activity room and the dance room. There are always huge groups of kids from various programs around, as well as many families with mostly preschool kids. The place is always bustling. Suddenly a few minutes ago a program cleared off and a few families finished their lunches and left. There were only about five little kids in the whole room, with their associated grownups, and I guess all of them happened to be doing quiet things because all of a sudden the whole place went silent as the grave. Cool!
And then we went back to normal :)
Current mood:
cheerful.
From Yahoo News, that bastion of journalistic relevancy:
OTTAWA (AFP) - "Thatcher has died," read the short text message that kicked off a brief diplomatic flurry among members of Canada's parliament and their advisors at a black tie dinner this week, said local media Thursday.
Upon learning the "news" via mobile or Blackberry at a soiree honoring Canadian military families Tuesday, some 2,000 shocked Conservatives, said to revere the Iron Lady of British politics, and their advisors reportedly huddled to discuss a reaction.
The prime minister's office called Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street to confirm that Margaret Thatcher had indeed passed away -- baffling British officials, CanWest News Service said.
It turned out the message was sent by Canadian Transport Minister John Baird from his home in Toronto to a person at the gala dinner to say his beloved 16-year-old gray tabby cat, named for Margaret Thatcher, 84, had died.
The recipient then forwarded it to others.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office was not immediately available for comment.
Sorry, cat lovers, but I had to giggle at this one.
Also? John Baird is my MP. No, I didn't vote for him, and I loathe a lot of what he's done and wish to hell he'd stop sending me mail telling me all the great things his government has done to fight crime, especially as I disagree with most of them. I do have to respect the man, though, for being one of (iirc) 13 Conservatives who voted to let gay marriage remain legal when it was put to a free vote, helping to finally lay the issue to rest. I called his office beforehand and was told he was going to vote yes "as a matter of individual rights as protected by the Charter." Go him :)
And I'm sorry about his cat.
Current mood:
amused.