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Or at least I feel like that is all my body and brain can do at this moment, provide a resting place for my hat. Poor Aidan is sick, so therefore most of the family got little sleep. Ethan I think  got more sleep than anyone else – and even he didn’t sleep that great!

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Now, other things to talk about.

I had a talk with Todd of LostGorilla yesterday – well, we talk every day since we work together. However, we talked about projects that are lined up. I have a story I’m going to do (other than Deadland Chronicles) that originally I saw as an easy story to do and so on. After talking to Todd and we came up with ideas for what can be done the statement was made that I "don’t do any little projects". I won’t give much information at this point on the other story because I want it to be  surprise. However, if this works I may do other stories I have lined up in a similar fashion.

Yes .. other stories.

I have a few of them. 5 at the very least – and that list will probably grow.

I find it funny that people have called President Bush a monkey for 8 years – blatantly – and no one says a thing. However, when the NY Post publishes a cartoon (that doesn’t say anything about President Obama) depicting some Connecticut police shooting a chimpanzee they automatically claim it’s a depiction of President Obama. So they (NY Post) published an apology (of sorts) for the cartoon saying that if you where offended, sorry. However they also said that some of the critics and complainers have had problems for a while with the NY Post and took this "as an opportunity for payback".

I can see – with a stretch – how they could get all miffed and think that this is a direct insult to President Obama. I mean … the monkey does have his eyes.

Seriously, if you think this is an insult than you’re obviously looking for a fight. President Obama didn’t write the 1,000+ page joke stimulus plan. He initiated it, had a hand in hit, but didn’t pen it. This was done by many, many people.

Maybe it was these guys …

Ok, I have to say I’m not sure why people would really be that excited about another stimulus package. Why?

Well, let’s look for a second at the national debt of nearly $11 TRILLION DOLLARS! Now they want to add another $787 billion to that deal? Is that really a smart plan? If you’re drowning in credit card bills, do you go and open another one? No, dang it, you try and consolidate, stop spending like a moron and pay the bills! You don’t give a 400lb fat guy with a heart condition a bag full of salty, greasy McDonald’s fries!

But that’s not what this country is now based on – it’s based on rubbing the feet of the lazy and giving loads of hand outs with the premise of "stimulating the economy". Hey, it didn’t work for the last President, so what the heck makes anyone think it will work now? Personally, yes, I liked getting the check (about half of what was ‘estimated’ but oh well). We bought two windows for our house. Yes, that’s all we did. Big deal, eh?

According to Forbes.com the President Obama stimulus package is going to be handing out large chunks specifically to certain states. Here they are – as well as their unemployment rate (according to CNN Money) as of December 2008:

California(8.4%)
Texas (5.7%)
New York (6.1%)
Florida (7.3%)
Wyoming (3.2%)
Washington DC (8%)
Vermont (5.7%)
North Dakota (3.3%)
South Dakota (3.4%)
Delaware (5.6%)

Ok, first, why is a province of another country getting any of the US Stimulus package? Washington DC isn’t a state of the United States of America people – believe it or not our national’s capitol is formally the District of Columbia (hence the D.C.).

Yeah, I had to point out the non-statehood of D.C. because a surprising amount of people think it’s a city in Virginia.

Second, why are states with unemployment rates below 5% even considered? Michigan is at 9.6% unemployment (thanks Granholm, you’re a help!), Rhode Island is at 9.3%, South Carolina is 8.4% … so why are they left out?

I know President Obama is the President of the United State – and therefore he’s my leader and President even though I voted otherwise. I respect that and all that jazz but what they heck man?! He seemed a lot more intelligent and put together while he was running for President. Maybe they have a brain sucking worm in the White House.

But hey .. President Obama did make change. The day of his inauguration a new WhiteHouse.gov site was launched.
Way to change the world. 
What should I expect from a guy who won the election via Internet marketing and social networks. He’s the ‘rockstar President’. Won by MySpace friends. Oi.

I’ve been getting random instant messages from people … today I got one that was kind of .. funny. Via my Yahoo! IM account.

bizarresalmon: Do you realize that you’re living in the future?
me: Usually.
me: But only on the second Wednesday of every other month.
bizarresalmon: Ok then. ____ off.

While it was a rude way to end the conversation – I thought it was funny. A co-worker mentioned it sounded like something Dwight Schrute (See: The Office) would say.

People are random .. and crazy.

At least the random "I’m 21, single and have a web cam!" IMs have stopped thanks to a ‘bot-stopper’ plug-in for Pidgin. Those where annoying.

5 minute break at work and I came up with this.

Epic – of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.

Fail – to dwindle, pass, or die away: The flowers failed for lack of rain.

Epic Fail – To suck to a great extent: You missed the ball!? Epic fail!

This, as I said, took me about 5 minutes in Photoshop and Illustrator. The photo was taken from a "Deadland Chronicles" test photo shoot. The model is Todd Morris, photography Pete Mumbower.

Yeah I know it’s not perfect – but hey .. it was fun and gave me the giggles I laughed in a manly fashion.