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Why I don't care:
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It's fun to hate:
Republicans. I have been doing it for years. I am not sure why I find so much joy in it, but it is usually about the time that courts rule that the government should not make abortion decisions that I really start to hate them...Because the Republicans continue to call abortion "infanticide" regardless of the fact that the fetus will/can not remember pain until it is born and reaches a couple of years of age. That fetus is certainly not going to go face some diety and say, "oh, by the way, it hurt really bad when they aborted me".

When Shadowtwin reigns supreme:
Think about this. Cancer is a living entity. Cancer grows and spreads/populates just as humans do. It is a living thing. For some reason it is just fine to try to kill cancer, since it is just a lowly virus. If you are going to defend the rights of mammals who have not yet reached the level where they can actually think or survive on their own, must you not defend the rights of every form of life on the earth that has no sapient existence? Perhaps if we allow cancer to spread it will eventually find an intelligence. This is, of course, a ludicrous comparison, but the fact remains that if there is no activity in the mind of the fetus, the fetus is not a sapient life... The same could be said for a lot of Republicans, come to think of it.

Music lost to history:
Megadeth-Hook In Mouth-
I gotta be honest on this one. The sound quality is not all that great, even on cd. The reason that I really loved this song was that it was released at damn near the time of the founding of the PMRC. For those of you who are young, that was the reason that we now have to be a certain age to buy certain cd's. I will never forget the chorus of that song:

F is for fighting.
R is for red, ancestors' blood in battles they've shed.
E we elect them.
E we eject them, in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
D for your dying.
O your overture.
M they will cover your grave with manure.
This spells out freedom, it means nothing to me, as long as there's a PMRC.

Now that I no longer have the angst I did in my teens, I find it all a bit frivilous in the grand scheme of things. None the less, this was one of the songs that I really stood behind and probably warped my little mind just a bit more. I think it really was a question of freedom of speach, but we have stickers on cd's now..
The PMRC may have made it impossible for me to buy the albums that I wanted to at the time, but now I can buy any Fucking album I want to any Fucking time. It is for that reason that this one is simply lost to history... my history mostly.

French Toast-
A cute little game that I spent about a minute playing earlier today. It could do without the racial slurs, but it was free, and fun for the minute of playability.

I actually did write a post yesterday, and somehow when I saved it it just disappeared. I don't know where it went but when I opened the index.shtml file again it was the previous day's post. I could not find the other one anywhere on my local machine, and I know I didn't upload it so I will assume that I have somehow mistakenly saved it as a different date in my archives folder. That assumption doesn't make any sense for a lot of reasons, most notably that would require me to use the 'save as' command and also to verify overwriting an existing file, unless I just somehow invented a date for it. The real reason that this theory doesn't hold water is that my ftp client allows me to view files by the most recently modified and I could not find anything in there with the correct date on it, I searched through all of my documents and there was nothing.

That all happened last night as I was trying to ftp the file to my server, I could have written a pretty good copy of it yesterday while it was all still pretty fresh in my mind, yet I didn't. Today I barely recall the topics that I discussed. I know that I made mention of our puppy's condition, then I talked a bit about diablo, after that I am blank. Probably better that way I suppose, since today I have no more to talk about than I did yesterday and the same two topics are still on my mind.

Our Zelda puppy seems to be getting better for the most part. She is able to walk in limited doses, though she does strongly favor her driver's side leg while she is doing it. Whatever pain that she is feeling isn't bad enough that it is causing her to shake and breathe hard like it was when the injury first occurred. I think her progress may have come along a lot more quickly had it not been for my mother and father in law stopping by the day the injury happened, which led directly to her getting up and running over to them since both of our dogs get really excited when they see new people. Then yesterday my brother in law stopped by to pick up an old dryer, which again made her get up and frolic more so than a dog in her condition really should. I can't fault the relatives for stopping by, nor can I fault her for being a happy little puppy, I do hope that she can just get a lot of rest over the next couple of days and hopefully get better. I just took the above photo and as you can see the dog does not look particularly happy. As you can also no doubt see, we are in serious need of new carpet (though the stains are not nearly that visible to the naked eye. I think my digital camera may be just a bit too good for my purposes; especially considering that the image size is one third of the actual photo, and it has been compressed insanely to make it viable for internet viewing).

• On the up side I was able to expend a bit of my time in mindless gaming yesterday. Why that is an up side? I got no idea. I played a lot more diablo. Not that it was my intention to play a lot more diablo, more I was hoping to get through the first couple of quests in act 3. What happened after that is the strange Diablo Time Warp that I have previously discussed, only about ten-fold.

There have not been that many changes to the normal difficulty since the recent patch, at least not many that I have found, but the ones that I have found have irritated me on a lot of levels. Act 3 is the most univerally hated of all the acts in the game to begin with, so hated that few people actually waste their time doing it. Knowing this, Blizzard went ahead and made it ever harder and more mundane even for the beginner. WTF were they thinking?

I wandered out into act 3 thinking that I would do the first quest pretty quickly, that didn't happen at all. When the first couple of super-unique monsters didn't drop the jade figurine I assumed that this was to keep people from doing only that quest for the +20 to life and the getting turboed to the next act, which is a good idea I think. After I had been playing for about an hour and had mapped the entire zone, not to mention clearing the false spider cavern near the waypoint, I still didn't have the figurine. When I went into the real cavern (I always get the names confused) the figurine was dropped by the super-unique spider that guards the chest holding Khalim's eye. I grabbed the figurine and went back to town completely forgetting to get the quest item from the chest. This would have been a very minor problem had I realized it at the time, unfortunately I didn't realize it until I had gotten the Gidbinn and cleared the Flayer Jungle as well as the Flayer Caverns, where I got Khalim's brain.

The only reason that all of that was bad is that I had to map the entire Great Marsh before I found a way into the Flayer Jungle. I dropped many Town Portals along the way and when I finally got the part of Khalim's Will from the Flayer Dungeon (or whatever it is called) I just ran as fast as I could into Lower Kurast, hit the waypoint, went back to town and exited the game so that I could write yesterday's post, which is lost. When I logged back on after having written yesterday's post I looked in my stash expecting to see two pieces of the Khalim's Will quest, but there was only one. This meant that I had to remap the zone (from the waypoint) to get back to the real spider cavern and get the damn eye. Once I had done that I just quit for the day. As a matter of fact that was when I realized that something had gone wrong with yesterday's post, that is when I just gave up on anything related to the computer for good.

I am likely going to play a bit more of Diablo tonight, still in the act 3 area, but if it starts to piss me off like it did yesterday I may just have to but a real sword so that I can straighten out a few programmers over there at Blizzard. --Not that a situation like that would be likely, since it was my own haste that made me miss my quest item in the first place, and it is possible that it was just a strange map that made me have to clear every zone along the way, but My Random Fluctuations of Time and Space (God, for the religious) that was irritating.

If someone happens to car-jack me tomorrow, I may have some content that is a bit more interesting. If that fails to happen, you should expect the same dribble that you are getting now.