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If you set your expectations pretty low, that is.

And if you can stand Journey’s Don’t Stop Believing.

Cause it’s like, the entire song. See for yourself.

Still not as good as MameJump, though.

I mean, seriously, what is up with these people? Stuff on my cat? Weird. Poor cats.

The remotes one was funny, though, have to admit.

[D’oh! Already slashdotted. It’s down. Deservedly so.]

I’ve been hearing how the president’s approval rating has dropped to an all time low.

I’m surprised at how annoyed I am by this. It’s just ridiculous. I mean, has anything changed substantially since November? Not really. So to the “shifters” my question is this: if you voted your morals last year, have you just lost them now? If you have your morals now, then why did you vote for the guy then?

It’s irritating to me that people don’t like the guy now, but they voted him in last election. The public is fickle. If you felt so strongly that you had to vote for President Bush last November, then you might as well stick by him now. Don’t bother to give moderates and liberals dangling hopes that you’ve “seen the light” (although frankly, they’d be fools to buy into it).

I don’t think after last year that anyone should trust any “trends” in the public and politics. Or polling, for that matter.

I was going to take him to the vet to be put to sleep on Thursday. I even text chatted with Kevin about it Thursday just before I went home.

Then when I got home, the little guy was eating again. After sipping cat food gravy and tuna juice for a week, he’s started to eat food again.

He’s still rail thin. This is a cat who was 18 pounds, and now he’s down to about 9. But he’s actually beginning to resume normal activities.

Maybe it’s just a calm period before he takes the Big Journey, I dunno. Or maybe he read the Celestine Prophecy and he’s working on the 10th life/level. Or maybe he heard us talking about the final vet trip and decided that he wasn’t that sick after all (insert Monty Python skit here–“I feel MUCH better now!”).

But for as long as it lasts, it’s good to have him back.

We still can’t figure out the lump/mass on his neck. The biopsy said it was benign skeletal muscle. Maybe he got a bug bite on the neck that he was really allergic to? Maybe it’s an extra mutant brain?

As usual, Dart is a mystery to us. I swear the dude surfs the Internet and stuff all day when we’re gone (“darn non-opposable thumbs”).

You know, the online community is roiling with comments and suppositions over this Intel and Apple thing. Now I read Bob Cringely and others writing that Intel is going to buy Apple.

Now that’s just silly. Everyone knows that just isn’t so. How can Intel buy Apple when the truth is that Apple is going to buy Intel? 🙂

That’s right, you heard it here first. Although I should more properly say that NeXT is buying Intel, since NeXT were the ones who bought Apple for all practical purposes in 1997.

Denise and I have watched several movies this past week, which is somewhat unusual. Pretty much all of them have been stinkers, which is also unusual.

But tonight, we watched Jersey Girl.

What a really, really good movie. A story that’s actually well written, that doesn’t stoop to cheap tricks or Hollywood glitz. And for a Kevin Smith movie, very light on dialogue and strong on visuals. I can see why Smith’s traditional audience missed this gem–it’s not at all his usual comedy. Highly recommended.