155.94 days, or 5 months, 5 days 22 hours 37 minutes

Yes, this day started out just fine. Record number of sales in the office since I've been here; double-digit percentages more website traffic than year's most-coveted event (Rodeo), and there isn't even a major event. I feel I should ask for a raise but all they are doing is cursing and screaming and saying "Why is this other site so slow???" They also have perennial excuses as to why they have no orders one day (my fault) and many orders the next (they don't know what *they* did but it was good). In any event, due to both onrushing multi-year deadlines of momentous import *and* this incredibly stressful job, I swear I'm losing my hair at an ever-increasing rate :o

156.57 days, or 5 months, 6 days 13 hours 40 minutes

Early this morning I was witness to my niece's confirmation into the Methodist Church. It was the first "real" church service I had attended since largely giving up my Mormon affiliation after their dogged support for the Iraq Domination and out-right endorsement of President Bush (How can "propets" of God support such a cabal?!)

It was the first church I had been in since I covertly attended the Jerry Farwell "Moral Majority" hatefest at a local baptist church, which drew crowds of several thousand to learn how to "convert your homosexual children!" AND THE TEXAS STATE PARLIMENT JUST DENIED HOMOSEXUALS THE RIGHT TO ADOPT BECAUSE THEY MIGHT "CONVERT" CHILDREN TO HOMOSEXUALITY!! GAJH!!!! Bigotted hypocrity in the name of G-d really gets me steamed! More on this in the future as it was quite fun and I almost got arrested again for supporting a good cause :-)

157.33 days, or 5 months, 7 days 7 hours 50 minutes

[very private...only re-publish if you are somehow affiliated with Persa]

Ever feel like you're more of a woman than a man?

Are the only people that hit on you gay or lesbian?

Welcome to my nightmare. I'm not for sure if it was the Southern Baptist brainwashing or unknown sexual abuse when I was younger, but I have some real sexual identity problems...

I don't even think about sex much...in fact I've only made out with 2 people ever lol. I've lost all interest in both sexes for little under a year and a 1/2 and it is possible that the woman who has incessently haunted my dreams for so long will even reject me in the future. All of my family + friends tell me it is hopeless, that humans are -- in fact -- not good enough to return kind act for kind act. And I tend to agree more and more after each passing year, after each passing betrayal.

Roaming Profiles are where you take your user configuration and stick it on a remote server, so that no matter what computer on a LAN you use, your settings are exactly the same. And I've figured out how to do it with Firefox. Yes, that's right. You never have to be without your Web Developer and HTML Tidy extensions — much less your Pimpzilla Theme — ever again! Even when troubleshooting someone else's computer :o

Dedicated to Persuica Persa Zula
Love, Ted 13 April 2005
Original

Devotion: Aka True Love.
Being there when it hurts;
When it ruins your life,
Never regretting.

The woman you've never kissed
Dying a senseless death.
Before you could propose,
Adopting her sons as your own.

O MY GODDESS!!

Get a load out of this quote by our very impotent Commander-in-Chief!

I urge all those that honor Terri Schiavo to continue to work to build a culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued and protected, especially those who live at the mercy of others. The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak. Cases where there are serious doubts and questions, the presumption should be in the favor of life. -- George W. Bush

This coming after she died. His sentence -- "The essence of civilization is that the strong have a duty to protect the weak" -- is absolutely the most intelligent rhetoric I have ever heard from his mouth in almost 5 years. Yet, it appears he has not, in fact, contemplated his own speech writer's words. For in this very same instance, the strong condemned the weak to death, had it legally enforced, and had the judicial branch of government totally supercede the other three branches (Executive, Legislative, and Populous).