I am home for Christmas; I just drove in to Lake Stevens today. Yesterday was my last day working as a Driver Helper with the UPS, and boy am I glad to be done. I worked 28 hours this week (not counting Tuesday because I was sick) running packages to businesses and doorsteps. Wednesday and Thursday were 9-hour days that both ended in delivering packages in the dark with 30 mph wind gusts and lots of rain and even some lightning. After all of that, I'm excited to just sit around all weekend listening to Christmas music and eating all sorts of sweet and fattening foods. Ho Ho Ho = Munch Munch Munch.


Since Kira posted a whole bunch of really cool pictures, I got jealous and decided to post a few of my own. I added a few to the Random Album. You can find my pics and Kira's in the links to the left. (Although hers are definitely way cooler than mine. She's an artist, you know. I'm just a guy with a camera.)


To all of you who sent me Christmas cards: Thank you very much. You brighten my days. And I'm sorry I haven't sent any back; you'll be getting "Happy New Year" cards soonish. Maybe.


Lastly, if you don't listen to the radio much, you should. In fact, the world would be a better place if everybody listened to at least one hour of NPR per day. If you think NPR is just boring people talking about boring news, then you should go eat that Christmas coal Santa brought you. And after that, you should go to www.npr.org and find out when the following shows are playing on your local NPR station: Car Talk, This American Life (highly reccommended), Market Place, and Fresh Air. Around here, you can find NPR at 88.5 FM and 94.9 FM. If you are truly patriotic and truly believe that democracy can work with humans, then you need to listen to NPR because no other media source so broadly yet accurately covers all aspects of life, from news to music to business to entertainment.


And now for my rant about GW and his ensuing Right Wing Rebellion: George Bush apparantly hates democracy because he doesn't like NPR. In fact, he cut their funding this year and placed a very right wing CEO at the top of the organization all because he thinks accurate and unbiased news is proof of the "Liberal bias in the media." He's just mad that NPR doesn't fall for all of his propagnada tricks and give him all the spin he wants. Rather, NPR plays uncut sounds bites of his speeches and lets the audience determine for themselves that this man is just a bad used car salesman (not to bash on used car salesman, who do better business than GW). If GW really cared about upholding democracy in this country and not just $Iraq$, he would recognize the important role that PUBLIC media has in this country and seek to expand it rather than control (like the dictator he is). But GW is too busy wiretapping all those godless liberals who call in to NPR shows to voice their political freedom.


Ok, enough of that. Merry Christmas to all, even George W. Bush.
Ike