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[wednes]

Monday was H's birthday, and it so happens that he loved all the stuff I got him. I made him mexican lasagne (which he asked for) and his fave marzipan cake. He got a new tray for eating, since we never eat at the table. He's been using the last tray I bought him--which was a blue tray for kids with a racecar on the front. For serious. So he digs the big boy tray very much. I also got him a can of Romulan Ale, a book called The Last Days of Krypton, and a T-shirt for a boat rental store on Amity Island. Apparently they have big boats, and bigger boats. Good stuff!
For Xmas, he is getting Shutter Island and Iron Man 2 on Blu Ray, and another T-shirt with a Left 4 Dead health pack on the back. Sweet! He's also getting a few bottled of mana, a duct tape wallet (by Ducti), astronaut ice cream, sour candy, and some wasabi lip balm which I am confident he will enjoy.

Sent out a bunch of cookies this week, but couldn't find my cousin Victoria's address (even though she has sent me 3 things in the past year or so). Now I have it, but didn't have any packing tape to secure the box. Apparently, neither masking nor scotch tapes are strong enough. Drag. So that will be late. Also sent out a bunch of cool beeswax candles that I rolled myself. I wanted to make hats, but my hands were not even entertaining the idea of knitting.

Rude Pundit made me a bit less angry at Obama this week. The POTUS did throw a monkey wrench in the GOP's shenanegans by giving in on the tax cuts. Yeah, those cuts are totally bogus, but if it gets help for 9/11 responders, rids us of DADT, and gets START off to a flying *ahem* start, that won't be so bad. Net neutrality going down in flames though, is NOT okay. I am pretty much inconsolable and desperately clinging to the hope that some more companies will be in the area to compete with Comcast. I loathe Comcast, and would welcome any and all competition that is not AT&T. H and I got into a screaming fight about Net Neutrality, because I just don't think that because they're your cables that you should get to charge everybody more while giving them less. Fuck them and that fuckery right in the ear!

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

I'm with you on net neutrality. I just don't get people on the corporation's side of this. They're not on our side. And didn't the airways use to be public airways? Those were the days.

[wednes]

The idea that Comcast can not only charge content providers just to carry their services, and then charge US more to view that content is obscene. And in my area, Comcast can charge whatever they want because they're the ONLY cable company in this rather wealthy area. There are rumors that Comcast is paying off people to keep WoW out of here. I have friends in areas where WoW and Comcast are both available, and Comcast is charging them half of what we're paying for the same services.

[groovesinorbit]

Yep. This is the kind of example that proves that the "let the free market decide" thing is a crock of shit. Thanks to deregulation, there is no level playing field anymore, so only the big boys can play, and they set the rules. You have to give the capitalists credit for pulling off one of the biggest con jobs in the history of the world. At least in this country, most people have fallen for it.