Happy is fleeting but bitter is forever

Despite still being absolutely glowy after another wonderful weekend...well, no, that's pretty much it. Hello office, I hardly recognize you and find it hard to think about you because my mind has happy places to go.

But I'm still me. We walked by a gorgeous church across the street from Janna's, and looked at a long series of strings with "prayer ribbons" attached to them - 3 levels deep. It seems they were prayers for peace, and if I understood correctly, for the Iraq situation. "Well," I said, "I guess this display is designed to show the futility of prayer. They have physical proof of all the tremendous effort they have put into their prayers for peace - yet the war continues. Guess it didn't work!"

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I just bought my retirement stocks for the year (roth IRA, small $ amounts) with about 60/40 Goog/Cat. Not horribly well researched.

I am still scanning lcd tvs and the prices are plummeting. I was thinking of what to do with my 32" tv when I upgrade, and realized while it might be silly there is nothing keeping me from putting it on my work desk as a regular monitor (it's hooked up to a computer vga right now as the living room tv). New tv or not - I just bought steam's ultimate DOOM and DOOM II (I hated both doom 3 & 4). It occurs that there is nothing to keep me from logging into steam from my living room tv, putting the rolling desk/computer stand directly in front of the tv, blasting the sound through the surround sound and subwoofer, and playing DOOM old-school in the dark to pacify my old 17-19 year old self. I can practically hear the sound of bodily fluids meeting tissue paper as we speak...