who the hell is Steve Harvey?

i've just been listening to an interview with him on Good Morning America. WHAT A MAN-HATING ASSHOLE!

he claims that men can only love women in three ways (the three Ps): Profess, Provide, Protect. to me it's complete crap!

ok, maybe not COMPLETE crap, but still crap. maybe a lot of men do fall into that category; but certainly not ALL of them. (at least not the ones worth being with. i think that any man who's only capable of the three Ps is a worthless piece of shit.)

whenever i hear people having such low expectations of men, all i can think is that they haven't made much real effort to meet decent ones.

ugh. don't get me wrong -- i'm still not much of a man fan, but i also believe that low expectations will lead you to low men.

Hooray Vermont! Gay marriage!

(And Iowa, Connecticut, & Massachusetts of course.)

Now just 46 more states to go!

if i'd had a son instead of a step-daughter . . .

no no == yes yes

I will not promise not to have double negatives.

Programming is fun!

Having a family is work, but also fun.

:-)

(And I got new tubes & tires for my bicycle; yay cycling!)

hey, peoples . . .

so, are we all still in shock from the continuing economic meltdown? convinced now (finally) that there isn't any solidity to any financial stuff anymore? good, now time to get on with it -- the post-economic life, that is.

get ready, i say, for continuing government takeovers & ownerships of previously private endeavor. creeping communism, basically. it's not such a bad thing, considering what horrors big insurance & finance are. get ready (finally) for the end of the "American Dream", i'm afraid. (and with it, the end of the wealthy class.)

maybe we have some time before things really crumble -- possibly even ten or twenty years. or perhaps we have six months or a year unless we make some radical changes.

i guess it's time for humanity to grow up and stop being obsessed with acquiring material possessions. what's left? learning and self-improvement. read a book. learn to paint, or how to play the guitar. have fun! :-)

feeling like a kid again

really smiled when i ran across a scan of this picture (Wellfleet harbor, 1972) the other day. it reminded me how much i've been feeling like a kid again lately, what with my new life in Acton with my new family.

because wasn't that what being a kid was all about? experiencing new stuff? (and having awe and wonder and general joy?) i'm still loving it.

happy new year, everyone!

back in the cage, but with a friend

meet Angel (on the left): she's joined our family and keeps Coral (on the right) company -- together they twitter and cheep most enthusiastically at times.

Angel is the loud one and she cries out at regular intervals, sometimes squawking in random annoyance and other times chattering to whomever will listen. Coral remains more stolid and reserved; but when anyone violates her territory, she emits a stream of unmistakeable 'back-off' chitters -- watch out!