Rove, Tech Nightmare ver. 2.1, birds & eggs, Paper Folding Conventions, Dirty Water Dogs, and So Long Bobby Barker...You Will Be Missed....

Ive spent days going round with tech visits from Dell and Cablevision, and talking here and there to Verizon Wireless, and I'm happy to report that the cable burned out on the pole, but I also managed to get a new motherboard, networking card, and processor from Dell...oh, and also a new Verizon card reader for the laptop. As I had predicted that the card holder was merely unplugged, but I guess I got the new one anyway just for good measure. The only problem left now is that the laptop keyboard is not working right, which may mean that the tech put it back wrong, or that its shot!
Considering that my little rogue lovebird, Daisy, likes to jump on it real quick when she thinks Im busy elsewhere, waddle forward in fast motion like some sorta cartoon, and grab the keys off really quickly, shouldnt be a problem... I do often have to snap them back in place....naw, Im thinking its more likely that the air cleaning and the reinstall did something to it....damn!!
I know that the tech stuff is of more interest to some of you than others, so Ill cut it out...except to say that I did fix the mail forwarding on some other site thats been a royal pain in my ass...and I finally embedded a player here, though I am sick in bed so dont have my clips of Jim Earl singing to Maron or Janeane and Sammy fighting in the commercial break...
So, Ive got one of my themes up for now and will figure the rest later....

Yeah, I got the evil kid germs from the evil kid...and even knowing the course of this thing doesnt make it any less depressing....plus that Ive been dealing with some business stuff and Will's last week of school, complete with 6 teacher gifts, 2 bus driver gifts, and 1 headmaster gift, which really needed to be nice and special because these people have been a godsend to me! It is absolutely the best school ever (and the most expensive, but then, thats considered a medical expense I guess.)
I've made it past the throat and am into the sinus, with the wrackign cough to come....and it fucks up father's day a bit, but thats not something that we play up around here much because Will's father is absent and asleep at the switch when it comes to things like holidays, birthdays...any days....
Ben's dad lives in Haiti and doesnt speak much English. Ben hates heat, humidity, and bugs, so is planning on maybe seeing him at some point really quickly and jumping back on a plane to the safety of a yankee east coast city!

All of the confusion of days of wandering through a Nyquil hangover haze and having to get stuff done has left me feelign like...whats happening out there?
And the resounding answer is that things are fucked as usual, but that Rove is looking like he is in big time trouble...We know he broke the law, and I dont know what the big deal is with investigating it. These guys have lied, impeded investigations, and stood in our way long enough; Lets get to it.
I dont feel sorry for Libby...I want him in jail for his full term. I'd also like to see Rove and quite a few of his buddies in jail as well.
The arrogance and the stupidity...the deaths and the sinking feeling of no end in sight...and the hopelessness of poor people in this country and in my very neighborhood who have no way out and cant feed themselves and get their medications, demands that the neocon agenda be stopped, and that the people who have caused so much misery and put us into this spiral down, pay in some way!
There will be a lot more misery to come too.
This surge has to be stopped. I cant imagine what it serves to wait till September when we know that it is not working. Isnt this a crime? Shouldnt Bush be examined by Psychiatrists or something?...because this is delusional thinking, and people are dying...and its summer in Baghdad...that means its freakin hot and sandy....
What more has to happen?
Isnt it bad enough that the social fallout from this is going to be catastrophic in that we, as a country, are not only unprepared for the PTSD in the soldiers, but unprepared for the mailaise that we are surely already deep into as a county, and which is sure to get worse as we begin the long withdrawal in defeat and all thats left is to look at eachother and ask why...? Jill linked today to this scary-interesting Shakesville piece on how screwed the reasoning is behind the upcoming (and current) war plan (s)...and how misled and mistaken we've been...and below that it goes on to on discuss how psychologically damaging a war with no reason is...I feel very damaged when Ive been lied to...and I also feel very betrayed by anyone who Ive ever known who went along with this nonsense out of laziness or a feeling of helplessness...
The despair is a bottomless pit.

I watched Bob Barker yell his last "come on down," last night, during a week when I was so out of it as to be mindlessly watching soap operas from my youth and...yeah...a game show or two.
Barker says that Rosie O'donnell should replace him and thats part of why I like him so much. Old Bob speaks his mind and, for all the hairspray and 50's sensibility, is a real passionate activist....Maybe he can go on to find his soapbox now....and though I know that the money is there for her to do just about anything, I think that Rosie has some important political work to do in the next year or two. We're fighting for our lives out here, and with AAR silenced in such a drastic and disgusting way, we need everyone we can get!
Look, I've never been a big Rosie fan in general, but when is the liberal elite gonna stop turning up their noses at her and realize that she bravely went onto daytime TV and during a timeslot where youre lucky if anyone even thinks, she told it like it is in no uncertain terms. Dont add me to her craft group just yet, but she has my thanks and congratulations on a job well done...its just too bad that Elizabeth the stupid-head Hasselhoff...er...beck...er...back...is still there spewing her garbage. She was one of the few "celebrities" that the Republicans could wrangle to speak at their NYC convention last time rund....and you know that they were desperate to have hired her!
I just think that its wrong to allow anyone to spew lies on TV...and what she is saying is partly just her own stupidity, but mostly the talking points....Where is our voice?...

Speaking of which, Ive been listening to some old Marc Maron Shows from last year and they hold up great...I wonder if that means that we are largely in the same place, or that the material is timeless...its wonderful material and I just MISS hearing him/them every day so badly!...I also miss Al, and Sam...I miss what it used to be: new, experimental, and hopeful...and I am disgusted by this Lionel character...can hardly listen to even the crackly bit of Randi here and there that comes in in the car sometimes.
But Im gonna probably just try to listen to the old shows over again and hope for better days. I was in the market yesterday and just laughing and laughing at my ipod input...its been a long time since I got to be that cracking up lady in the market...Im gloomy, doomy lately.
Maron is in San Diego this weekend and Providence, Rhode Island next weekend (a place where I really want to go and hang some time, but I'm gonna be all tied up in NYC....sorry Westin Hotel...sorry Heavenly bed...sorry to me, staying in a dorm room and perching at whole foods and starbucks in chelsea...)

So whats happening? Whats in store?
This coming Friday Ben and Will and I head down to NYC for the Origami USA convention at FIT in Chelsea. We will be staying at a dorm and I will be wandering and hovering round while they are folding and hanging out with their paper people.
Thousands of paper folders converge on the school for this 4 day fold fest, and they fold all night and day...really strange to me....but what they make is fantastic! I will definitley be posting alot of pictures of the exhibit and goings on...
Otherwise, Ive been back in touch with some musicians who I knew in another lifetime and touch base with from time to time..., and one of my very favorites, Homeboy Steve, is playing on Friday night in Manhattan with one of his many bands, The Dirty Water Dogs. Its very close to where we are staying. ...I also have tickets to go and meet John Edwards earlier on Friday evening, which will likely be a zoo, but if Im down there and the boys go to the Origami opening reception I might just wander away into the NY evening to see whats out there.
Its is also usually the weekend of the Gay Pride Parade, which is incredibly fun, and completely otherworldly when youve been hanging round with origami folders.

It seems like a long haul to be in a dorm, but the boys love it. I find it pretty sparse and lonely, but I usually get alot of work done...and thats what I need to do for sure!!..

In bird news, Rosie laid another egg last night and Im leaving her alone as much as possible. It will be 28 days from today if the thing is to hatch. She is a prolific layer, but Im worried about her physically. Once she is done laying this bunch, Im bringing her to the vet for a check up. She moves around the cage very strangely, and her flying is not good. It may be from the eggs and discomfort or she has had some injury since she came to me. I am not opposed to turning them into pets, but he is a little agressive. I want to see how they do over this and the next breeding season, and then figure it out.
Meantime, I am preparing parrotlet land for nestboxes. They are scrappy little dolls, those lil' parrotlets...and they are alot of parrot packed into a tiny little body.

Welcome to Shakesville....its not that I havent been reading you from time to time, its just that Ive been too busy to update the blogroll here...not that it matters much, but I like to give at least a reference to where Im stealing my ideas from...;-)