Hilary Clinton = Pro Amnesty

You can't make this up

OK this news just made me laugh.

Allen, Santorum, Talent Criticized for Conceding:

Velvet Revolution, which calls itself a "network of more than 120 progressive organizations," criticized several candidates who conceded defeat before allegations of voter fraud had been fully investigated.

Among the six candidates it argued should not have conceded were five Republicans: Sens. George Allen (Va.), Conrad Burns (Mont.), Jim Talent (Mo.) and Rick Santorum (Pa.) and California secretary of state candidate Bruce McPherson.
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Velvet Revolution said candidates should not concede before election officials were able to investigate claims of voter disenfranchisement and electronic voting machine failures.

"Candidates have no right to concede a race (or claim victory) if votes remain uncounted if recounts are being called for, if allegations of election misconduct exist," the group said on its website.

Isn't that great? Liberals are mad at Republicans for not being liberal enough. Velvet Revolution is being shrill and whiny because we aren't shrill whiny and threatening to sue everyone. These are the people that believe that the 2000 election and the 2004 Presidential elections were stolen despite all the evidence to the contrary.

I wonder if Velvet Revolution has an office in Washington State where an election result was overturned and all there is still controversy over the vote counting process.

And I wonder if they have investigated ACORN for registering 30,000 dead people in Missouri.

Un-Retirement

I have decided to un-retire this blog and turn it in to my workout blog for Hyperstrike. They are having a blogging competition I want to enter so here's my first post in almost two years on this blog.

Moved

I have decided to move this blog over to Livejournal. I have had a livejournal for a while but don't like the people who read my livejournal. Now a lot of people I actually do like are getting livejournals so I decided to change screen names and start doing my journal blog over there. The link is here http://www.livejournal.com/users/~dominyk
I will still post on Fedora-Pundit however.
Thanks for reading

Sorry for the long delay on updates. It was a long week and a long weekend. Work was kind of frustrating, I was learning a new language and a brand new web server system at the same time. And I couldn't get Visual Studio Pro set up so that I could look at ASP files. It turns out that I had to install IIS on my own computer before I could do any editing. And when I finally did get it set up I had to wade through it and see what in the world was going on. It was quite frustrating. And on top of that I couldn't sleep very well. I started to catch cold, and so I got some NyQuill and knocked myself out. I'm starting to get more into the swing of things now. But by the weekend I was extremely busy. I only got to see Kate once before she left for Blacksburg. And I was so tired that all I really felt like doing was sitting around. We watched Leon which is a good one. Kate really gets in to the movies which is fun. You'd think she would watch more, I guess I should give her a list of good ones that she can get in to. On Friday night I kinda moped around wishing I had something to do. Ox was playing his game again and then he went out with some friends. On Saturday I just slept until I was ready to get up, it was very nice. My parents wanted to have my birthday party on Sunday afternoon instead of Saturday night. So I went and hung out with the girls on Saturday evening. They wanted to go bowling for some reason. I didn't bowl because I hate bowling. But I did get to see some of the games on the TV. The playoffs are the most exciting football games of the year.

On Sunday I went to church with the family. It's weird being there, I don't know half of the people. And the ones I do know have grown a lot. We came back and watched football. Betsy and T came over but they were tolerable. The dinner was nice, and the football was cool. Michelle was all over me, I didn't think that she would miss me that much since I hardly saw her when I was around. Oh well, who knew. I got some nice gifts for my birthday. Some driving gloves, a cook book, some lotion for my face, and Betsy gave me some money. I'm going to send her a gift certificate as soon as I start getting paid. Which thankfully will be on the 28th. Today Ken came back and I figured out how some stuff is going to go. Basically I need to learn ASP.NET really really fast. Because they are getting ready to start a really complicated and high profile project that will be really intense. I hope I'm ready for it. But I guess it wouldn't be worth doing if it was completely easy. I went and ran errands today. And I actually bought the PDA with Kates Christmas money. I decided to go with the iPaq because it has built in wireless internet as well as blue tooth. And there is a program that will sync your Windows Mobile PDA with your Mac. Unfortunately the screen was messed up and I have to take it back. I went and did a lot of grocery shopping so that I have food. And I will have some for next week after I get back. I'm going out of town for work on Wednesday. And I'll get back sometime on Friday, then turn around and leave for Ice Castles that night. And get back Sunday after practice if there is one. And I will be exhausted and in no mood to go shopping. well that's all for now, I'll post again soon. But I can't garauntee when.

Well the first day on the job was a great one. I mostly did paperwork and installed things on my computer. But the environment here is just soooo friendly it's amazing. Ken is my boss and he's great. He is probably pretty anal retentive, but I know that he wants me to succeed. I filled out paperwork most of the morning and then Ken remembered that he hadn't sent me for a drug test. Which he was supposed to do before I could do any work. So I drove over to the clinic to get tested. The directions he gave me were just wrong, it wasn't his fault mind you. Mapquest somehow confused a doctor's office with the World Bank. Anyway after doing the drug test thing I came back to my desk and ate lunch while I set up my computer. It's really weird the way they have the computers set up here. They actually have Micrsoft running very well on all their systems. Something that I haven't witnessed before. I hope that the non MS products I install won't mess anything up. I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to get things installed on my computer. And it should have been a lot simpler but Micrsofts products all try to be really helpful and that's not so productive sometimes. Ken gave me a project and then left town for one of our remote offices. The project is a simple one in some aspects and a complicated one in other ways. Before the guy that I replaced left he was working on a website and it was almost finished. My project is to figure out what needs to be done with the website to deploy it. And in the process gain as much knowledge as I can about the network infrastructure. I've only been working on it for a couple of hours and the biggest problem I'm having is figuring out his development process. .Net development is so different from what I'm used to. It's going to be hard to figure it out at the same time as trying to figure out how my predecessor was working. But I didn't come here to sit around. I found out that I won't get paid until the 28th. They do a crazy pay schedule here so I have three weeks before I get my first check. But I do still have a paycheck coming from Tech. It's only one weeks pay because of the holidays. I should be ok though.

It's strange living with Ox. I don't think it's really sunk in yet that I'm not going home. Although I will be going home this weekend, so it probably won't sink in for a good while. I need to find some better food, I don't think I'll survive long on sandwiches and soup. I'll have to get some cheap TV dinners for supper. When I start getting paid I'll get food and cook in the evenings. Today is fighter practice so that should be fun. I don't know if the hottub is working but it would be nice to soak in there after fencing. I have to print out directions also.

Well that's all for now, I have to go bury myself in .Net stuff. Oh the Joy.

Things not to do at your new job: pants the division supervisor in an attempt to show you are "one of the guys".

Well it has been a wonderful exciting week. And an exhausting one. I worked my last week at VBS. I will miss those guys a lot. Especially Ludwig and Taikara. I feel really sorry for Taikara, she is lonely and wants a boyfriend. But the guy that she is lusting over already has a girl. But Pete is in a long distance relationship and is not having a good go of it. So Taikara wants to bang him or anybody but is really frustrated. But that's life I guess. I feel bad for Ludwig, because I'm getting a better job than he has and yet he's a harder worker than I am. And is some repects he's smarter too. But I know Ludwig and he'll be running VT in a couple of years anyway. He does feel like part of the SCA group after New Years so he'll hang out with them some too.

Wednesday was my going away dinner/Brianna's welcome back dinner. We went to Boudreaux's and I had Jambalaya which was awesome. Then we went over to Mill Mountain for coffee and just hung out for a while. We talked about all kinds of different things. Then we went back to Julie and Jen's to watch movies. Which now that I think about it wasn't really all that special an evening. We do that kind of thing all the time. I do have to tell you about the joke I played on Julie. It's the kind you remember for a while because you laughed so hard. While we were hanging out at their place before we started the movie, she was on the phone with Aldemere. They talked for a while and then she had to go to the bathroom so she hung up and told him to call back in a few minutes and for us to answer it if he called back before she was out. Well he called back and I grabbed the phone before anyone else could get it. I said hello and could tell it was him. He asked for Julie in a subdued voice. I told him to hold on and the yelled so that he could hear "Julie put your clothes back on, you have a phone call". I then told him to hold on. While he was on hold and waiting for Julie to come out of the bathroom Jay and Ludwig and Bri started talking about how much he could mess me up because he used to be an army sniper. They were saying disgusting things about how big he could make a hole in you etc. Well Julie came in about that time and heard what we were talking about as I innocently handed her the phone. Before he could say anything she started in on him for talking about killing people. I remember hearing her say "well they are talking about making holes in people so it must be your fault". After about five minutes of talking to him in her room we just hear her yell "HE SAID WHAT??!?!". We all lost it, it was tooooo funny. She came running out of the room and started beating me with her Nemo stuffed animal but I was laughing to hard to care. Everyone applauded the joke after she went back in her room, even Andrea said it was timed well. I spent most of the weeknights packing my clothes and or washing them. I chatted with a good many people that I hadn't talked to for a while too. It was really hard to get motivated and I ended up wandering around my room a lot looking at things I had forgotten about. As a result my room is now an absolute wreck. But that's ok, I managed to pack all the clothes I will need and sorted through the stuff that I really don't. I left on Saturday to no real big fanfare, everybody was just doing regular Saturday stuff. But that won't last long, they want me to come back next Saturday for muy going away/birthday party. It's amazing that they can't ever schedule a birthday party on a day that's convenient for me, ever. It just won't happen. On Saturday the office took me out to lunch at Backstreets. The pizza was very good, I will miss that place too. Everyone was there and had a good time. Except for maybe Ludwig because the pizza wasn't Dominoes. I spent the whole of Friday afternoon getting stuff off of my computers at work. I had a lot of music and documents colected over two years. It all fit on five CD's thankfully. As I was finishing up Nancy walked in. She had to come in and pay some bills. It turns out that she did not have a good Holiday and her Mom will probably die from Cancer soon. She of course vented for a while to Mark and I. Thankfully Taikara wasn't there to hear, she's trying to quit smoking and Nancy just might driver her back to it. Ruthanne will probably move in to my space. She'll have to take a pay cut and hourly cut but at least she'll still have a job. That also means that Candle won't quit right away. He still has a crush on her, albeit a very benign one. But the estrogen level in that room will just be incredible now that I'm gone and Ruthanne and her triangle relationship will be moving in. But anyway I'm now moved in with Ox, Joe and Vlad were down this weekend to do some gaming. Gaming doesn't really interest me at all, even though it could be a kind of performance. It's just too tedius and I'd end up bored and miserable. But I also don't want to bust on them for doing it either. So I tried to stay out of the way. I watched some football and read my book. Kate got there a little later on, but she was more tired than I was. We slept in the back room. I couldn't sleep for some reason. My tooth acted up randomly and it hurt a great deal. After a while of just laying there listening to Kate breathe I got up and went downstairs. I drank as much of this nasty rum as I could and went and sat on the couch. I started nodding off despite the pain so I figured that it would be better to do that in bed. So I went back and slept from about 6-12. Not enough but I'm going to go to bed early tonight. We went to Shoney's for brunch and then came back here for a while. Then Kate and I went to wally world looking for food and some other stuff that I needed. From now on I'm making lists of things I need before I go wandering around a store. Wal-Mart up here is smaller with more people. That could get annoying.

Well my first day is tomorrow and I can't wait. The people there are friendly, and they are guys so it should be a blast. I can't wait to get my first taste of real IT work. I know that sounds silly but it isn't. In most of my other jobs web development and IT stuff has just been a part of my job and not the main focus. This is different. This is what I wanted to do right out of college but couldn't. I just have to stay focused and work hard. I also have to resist falling asleep in that big comfortable chair. I wonder when I will be getting paid. I get my last check from Tech on the 16th. But that's only half a period because of the holidays. It could get tight the next couple of weeks. Oh well. That's all for now, I'll write again tomorrow after my first day.