Oh my … I scarcely know where to begin.

*deep breath*

How about we start with the premise that these “same-sex friends”, as termed in the article, simply take the initiative to draw up proper documentation to get deal with the legality of medical issues and burials? It seems somebody has forgotten that pesky Supreme Court ruling that separate is *not* equal! Perhaps I am being too simplistic here, as I am looking solely at the legal aspects of the argument.

Upon further reading, the author must also be a very distinctive authority on the human brain (which every other distinguished psychologist, psychiatrist, and neurologist can only fathom an
educated guess at with current available knowledge) as he/she demands that gay couples “stop whining” about rights that they obviously intentionally give away when they make the conscious
choice to “opt for same-sex coupling” … like it’s what … leather bucket seats? I’ll grant him one term of agreement: life isn’t fair. I mean, those of us functioning with any more than a brain stem are assaulted by his/her brand of insanity almost daily.

But this *is* the United States of America! This glorious country was born on the ideals of
equality. Our own revolution was a fight for equality, and since we have fought for the equality of all those that fill our great nation. The author’s claim that *anyone* should remain complacent in their inequality in *this* nation is, at best, ignorant, and at worst, completely un-American. Lucky for him,
he/she can, ironically, still whine to his/her heart’s content, all in the name of freedom … I will happily indulge in my freedom to simply shake my head and laugh.

“This is an emergency crisis we’re in. The entertainment media is affecting everything on the planet in a very negative way. I’m only interested in rock ‘n’ roll. Rock ‘n’ roll is a music that represents truth. Your TV channel has taken the word “rock” and knocked the “roll” off the end. You made rock this umbrella term for everything. That’s wrong. Shakira isn’t rock. These country artists with fur coats aren’t rock - or country. I offered a video to VH1 of my band playing in the studio and they don’t want to air it because it had musicians playing in it. They want some babe walking on the beach or whatever. I got turned onto this music by watching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones actually on TV playing their guitars. It completely took me over. When you can’t see musicians playing any more, I’m not interested any more.”

-Tom Petty to VH1

Source: VH1.com

Why? I want to run another marathon. My heart yearns for the long miles again, the hellish runs at Knight’s Ferry, the build-up to the race, the pain, blisters and sore muscles that let me know I was alive… Today, I realized something. Despite how little of it I’ve done lately, despite the low quality and quantity of it all…

I am a runner at heart. Time to dust off the water belt, mix up some drink, and just go for it. Fast or slow, long mileage or short, the road’s calling me again.

Anyone up for a relay in December? CIM (the California International Marathon), up in Sacramento, is tons of fun. You only need four people for a team I might join one with my family, but I’m always up for going to running events with lots of people.

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My Toshiba laptop’s adapter plug started misbehaving last evening, subsequently dropping my battery charge to a mere 14% this morning. Fearing the pain of separation from my favorite piece of equipment, I started studying how to repair a damaged adapter. I’d done similar repair before, but this was my laptop, after all. Care had to be taken, lest I be ruined permanently (or until a replacement unit arrived).

So, I went down to our local RadioShack, picked up some solder and an adapter head, and went to work. Twenty tense moments later, my battery light showed it was charging up. As I sit here, using said laptop to write this post, the battery is almost fully charged again. Sure, the cord looks unruly and, frankly, ugly, but it works.

In all, I spent about five hours without technology, and I pulled out fine ;-). Plus, I can add soldering to my bank of skills now.

The French Government announced today that it is enforcing a ban on the use of fireworks at Disneyland Paris. The decision comes the day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just 30 miles outside of Paris, caused soldiers at a nearby French army garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists .

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