October 2006
The Archives
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10.25.06dekalb county recorder’s courtGovernmental blackmail is what it is. You can have your day in court, but they make it so difficult that most people just give up and pay the fine. Including me. Let's start at the beginning. A couple months ago I was involved in a traffic accident in which a woman ran a red light as I was going through it. I didn't see her and I ran into her. The police showed up on the scene and believed the "she said" of the "he said, she said" situation. I got a ticket. The officer said if I went to ...
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10.22.06amc monsterfest 2006!AMC Monsterfest is underway! Download the schedule before there's still time!
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10.22.06adventures in babysittingIt was around 10 am and I decided that I probably had enough time to change out of my pajamas. While I was in the bathroom putting on my jeans, there is a knock on the bathroom door, "Uncle Clint?" "Just a minute." Then the screaming. It didn't sound like painful screaming, but there still was a lot of it. I dressed as quickly as humanly possible and hurried to find the youngest dropping rocks from the second floor landing onto the hardwood floors below while the other two looked on, screaming. I dodged the rocks and ran upstairs to ...
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10.20.06waxing politicalI generally avoid political discussions because I don't really care so much. Most of my friends are really conservative and most of the people I work with are really liberal. I fall somewhere in between (but to be honest, I find myself becoming more conservative as I get older). I tend to avoid Bush-bashing because it has almost arrived at the point of being faddish, but I found a MSNBC clip on YouTube that pretty much sums up my criticism of Bush. I probably wouldn't phrase it as harshly, but the gist is the same. Bush is ...
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10.20.06wiredtake off time Originally uploaded by **sirop. Finally. Finally I have the internet at home. I'm not blogging from there...but from my brother's place in B'ham where I am sitting his kids with my sister. I officially have a Georgia driver's license. Last week I did the offline edit for a jewlery store in Atlanta. So, unless the agency changes it, something I edited will be on TV...in Atlanta. I watched Empire Records this week for the first time in about 7 years. Such a cool movie, why did so many ...