So, I’m not exactly sure how to deal with the bastard mood that I’m in. I’ve just been very short with people lately. I went off on the news media again the other night. I think it’s easier for people to hear me say that I don’t care about Terri Schiavo now because she’s dead. When I say that I don’t care that Natalee Holloway is missing in Aruba or that I don’t care that people are getting eaten by sharks they get upset with me. I mean, it’s not like I’m related to anyone that is missing or getting eaten. It’s not even like I know someone who knows someone who is related to someone that is missing or getting eaten. I do feel bad for these people’s families and I do feel bad for those who are missing or were eaten, but it doesn’t need to be on the TV all day. If you look at it one way, it’s pretty sick. The media outlets are only talking about it because they want to sell you newspapers or whatever. They know that you’re going to buy their newspapers or watch their news reports because we actually find this stuff interesting. We are actually entertained when they interview the parents of this poor girl that’s missing in Aruba. And you know what we’re all thinking? We’re thinking, “I wonder how the parents are involved in this thing. I bet the dad had his daughter killed because she found out about he was cheating on mommy.” And you know what? If we found out that that is what really happened, then put it on the news for a few minutes because that’s a good story. There are probably hundreds of different people missing all over America right now, but we’re all supposed to care about this one girl?

Anyway – you probably understand now that I’m in a bastard mood. All of these little things that bothered me before now bother me much more. Well, I guess they don’t bother me any more than they did, but I feel more inclined to talk about how they bother me. I mentioned this to my mom and she said, “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” While I think that is sound advice, I feel like all of these small things are ruining everything. For some reason I feel like if the news wasn’t filled with shit like this that it would be showing things that actually might affect those people who are watching it. You know, something educational or revealing; something that gave the citizens of this country more to go on than what letter comes after a politician’s name.

I think I need to take a nap or something. Oh, Jeff is going to swing by my house tomorrow and we’re going to try and do some work on Office Bocce. That should be fun. Also, my work on creating RPMs of Gnome through JHBuild is coming along. It’s not done yet, but I’m getting packages out. I basically just have to figure out what else to do to get all of the packages to install. We’ll see how it goes.