For the first time. Ever.

The Seattle Sounders FC have gone past the first round of the MLS playoffs… Sorry, Real Salt Lake, but the LA Galaxy seriously need a Tom Brady Well-Deserved Beating (at least somebody needs to beat the sock out of David Beckham’s shorts…), and it’s going to come in Rave Green….

Hail to the chief, 2012 edition….

If you haven’t noticed it yet, Barack Obama won another term. And unlike 2000 he did it without having to carry Florida (as of right now, Florida is still counting). Some people are rejoicing, some are in mourning, but the most have accepted it and are moving on. I’m encouraged by the fact that there are now calls from both sides of the aisle to compromise. This election was very close, and that indicates that America doesn’t need just one party’s idealogy, or the other party’s. America needs unity. We need to cooperate. When Obama leaves office in 2017, both democrats and republicans will have had equal time in the White House since 1961. If your party/candidate doesn’t have the White House/Capitol Hill today, don’t be discouraged. It will average out in the long run.

And Donald Trump is a right-wing birther nutjob. And it wouldn’t surprise me if he got some extra attention from law enforcement (namely, the Secret Service) for some of his tweets….

So I bought some music…..

Many years ago, I saw this video (I can’t even remember where. Could’ve been MTV, VH1, or PBS…). And very recently, I remembered it, and searched youtube for it. I like it so much I bought it from Spamazon. I don’t have an iPod (I like my Man-Card), and digital music from Soamazon isn’t drm’ed, so I can back it up locally, and copy it to my phone. BTW, this isn’t the first time I’ve bought music:

Ok, so I’m not getting rid of my tower

Apparently, only Flight Simulator 2004 and Flight Simulator X will play well in WIndows 7 64-bit (what my laptop runs). My tower normally runs Windows XP 32-bit, and everything runs fine in it, so I had to put it back together today. Which means I need to buy another SATA hard drive for my usb hard drive enclosure (which is really good for sneaker-netting backups)….'

In a moment of wrath late last night, I also wiped my laptop, so today, I was ‘moving in” into two different systems today (this post is being written from the laptop). This is a serious pain in the arse right now, but in the end printing will be easier, since I keep the printer on the tower, and I can network it (it’s a lot easier for me to turn the tower on and print through the lan than to fight the printer cable and plug it in…).

On a more political note, I noticed the address was off on my absentee ballot (to be precise, my apartment number was one letter off). Since last Monday was the last to register to vote in person at the county auditor’s office, I called to make sure, and I was told not to worry, my vote would still count. She even made a specific note about the address, and confirmed my correct address (which surprisingly was correctly listed on my voter registration card). So, I dropped my ballot off (there’s a drop box at the library), and they picked up my ballot last Wednesday. So you can stop campaigning now….