That it's all just a little bit of history repeating.

A little commentary on the events of the past month. First of all, the election.

Good work Democrats, now don't royally fuck it up. You raise my taxes or spend too unwisely, I'm going to give you a wag of my finger. Also, find someone better than Hillary (or Jay Leno chin doubles) to run in '08. Eight years of the Clinton political machine did more than enough damage to this country. Find someone who's interested more in helping the country than helping themselves.

Get your shit together and remember that your position is a privilege, not a mandate for asshattery. Remember that you can be voted in just as easy as you can be voted out.

Republicans, enjoy your time out. Your worst sin was one of arrogance. Instead of considering good legislation to reduce the size of government, the oppressive tax load on the country, fix the debacle known as Social Security (which will be long gone by the time I'm retired), you chose to squander your years in power building bridges to nowhere and impeaching a sitting President because he cheated on his wife and lied about it. Great jarb there.

Get your shit together and remember that your position is a privilege, not a mandate for asshattery. Remember that you can be voted in just as easy as you can be voted out.

Moving on.

I'm busy redesigning the site again as well as redesigning the Smoke Ring BBQ site that I maintain for a friend of mine. This redesign is likely to take a while, but I hope it looks more spiffy when I'm done with it.

I'm also considering what directions to take with it. If things come to pass as they might in a few months, we may have a totally different Internetainment beastie than we have now. More on that as things progress. For now, let's just say it's a work in progress.

Next, Thanksgiving is approaching and I am still not ready for the holidays. Then again, am I ever?

The day job is keeping me busy with plenty of work needing doing in time for Christmas. They got me a new Mac with a major Final Cut Pro Studio upgrade, which makes me giddy. I have more options for creativity at work, but I just wish beyond wishes that I owned this stuff myself.

I do not know how I'm going to get there, but I want to work on my own stuff and break free. I'm creatively stagnant these days and I think that is mostly due to the frustration I feel at not getting ahead in life. I've been cutting a lot of expenses out of the monthly budget, which will help slightly, and I do have big plans whenever I get the tax refund. I just pray that I don't have to fix the car or something else before that.

Crossing fingers.

In other news, I'm hungry and I'm seriously considering a burrito. Or a ham sandwich. Possibly a ham burrito if I get really brave. We'll see where the day takes me.