I ordered some things for school two nights ago and chose free shipping because I need to save cash.  They gave me an estimated arrival date of Sept. 4^th – Sept. 17^th.  The package hit Jacksonville, FL last night and should be here tomorrow or Monday.  Hell yeah free shipping!

No I’m not talking about the Peter Mayle book or movie, but something almost as sweet.  I just looked at the rosters for my classes this semester and all five of them are almost all 90% female.  The odds are in my favor.

It’s going to be a good couple of months.

New computer finally arrived.  Happy, happy, joy, joy!!

I love new toys.

I just found out that my classes start a week earlier than I thought.  This throws a bunch of things out of whack.

D’oh!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12349890

Arms Sales in Gulf Will Counter Terrorism, Rice Says

            Awesome idea!  Let’s give the Middle East just what they need, more guns!  You know because it’s worked so good for us in the past and it most likely won’t end up biting us in the ass later.  No way, that would never happen.  You know, because as soon as they are done using those guns and weapons to bring peace(?), they are just going to hang them up in the closet and never touch them again. 

Hmm, I wonder if the military contractors getting that $20 billion will be making some sizable campaign contributions this year.  I’m willing to bet so.

            Will they ever learn?

So the laptop, though working, has become touch-and-go like a patient on life support.  I can’t really move it or I will lose the power connection.  Sure, I could order a new mobo but that would cost $300+ plus installation on an outdated laptop.  Forget that mess, I needs a new toy.

So I dropped about $950 bones on a Dell Vostro through work (which hopefully means I get their service plan, sweet!).  The new Vostros are built for business and don’t come loaded with a bunch of garbage trial software and what have you.  I was going to splurge and get the Macbook but it just wasn’t in the cards.  I also snagged a 300GB external HDD to transfer all of my nonsense, and the old Acer has now become the Torrent box (while it lasts of course).  I forgot how much I missed torrenting free shit.

Over the last week and a half I’ve gotten seasons 1-6 of Smallville (it’s cheesy but I dig it), the third season of LOST, season 6 of Scrubs, Heroes and almost done with Michael Moore’s Sicko.  For some reason it won’t finish.  Any other suggestions of decent shows out there to catch up on?  I hear Weeds is good, but I don’t like pot and pot humor so I’m not sure.

And that is that, back to our regularly scheduled babble.  Grrr politics, movies, books….!

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSISL4204720070725

This is not good.  Nor is anything else happening on that side of the world, but this further cements how much strength the Taliban has regained in Afghanistan.  So much for all of Bush’s “we’re winning” rhetoric that he loves to spout.  Of course the administration blames it all on Pervez Musharraf and his inability to route the Taliban from Waziristan, because we can’t be expected to clean up all of our own messes.

Responsibility, what’s that?