In exactly 8 hours (or so) I will be arriving at the polling place to vote for the first time. I’m very excited! I voted in the 2004 presidential elections via absentee ballot, but today I am actually living in the same county so I can vote in person. I thought I was going to have to drive to my grandparents’ old hometown (about an hour away) because I was registered there, but a few weeks ago I got confirmation…
Today’s Calvin and Hobbes made me smile. For your enjoyment (click to make bigger):
So I just registered the domain name twentysixcats.com. Any ideas on what I could use it for? Pictures of cats? Should I move my personal blog there and use ashleydesign.org for a more professional freelance site? Don’t worry, I’m not interested in doing any major overhauls right now. Just bouncing around ideas. :-) EDIT: I put up a placeholder on my new website. Check it out. :-) (This is for you, Matthew.)
So something just doesn’t seem right with this headline I saw today: U.S. fails to protect illegal workers: petition Here’s an example of one upset person named Jesus who fell while at work: He required spinal reconstruction surgery, but the insurance company for Jesus’ employer refused to provide workers’ compensation to cover time off work because he was undocumented. That’s right, illegally enter a country and then get upset because that country’s government doesn’t give you the same rights as…
So my cell phone stopped working. I found a cell phone repair company that does free estimates, so I’m going to have Paul take it by on Thursday. If it’s not too expensive, I guess we’ll get it fixed. Otherwise, we need to figure out what to do. Anyone have an old Cingular phone they aren’t using that I could borrow for a few months? Last night Paul and I finally went over the insurance offered by CNN and I…