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When Christopher Hitchens died I decided to buy a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label to honor his memory. I have to say the taste was harsh and unforgiving. I figured something must not be right so I ventured out onto the google and learned myself how to drink whisky like a gentleman.

When the things that used to bring you pleasure before start giving you no satisfaction what should you do? Stop doing them? That'd be the easy answer, of course, sometimes I like to beat the dead horse for awhile just to see if the good times will come back.

So the whole SOPA thing got trumped...for now. I'm glad for it, I don't like the idea of privatizing any of our legal enforcement, especially with those that have the most chance of abusing the authority. I mean we've already given our our rights to a trial, legal representation and privacy, we should at least retain some ability to use the internet freely. Not that you can, everything is saved somewhere. Everything.

The years have not been kind to me, or better put, I've not been kind to myself over the years. Hence the rededication to exercise starting this week. And I lack the willpower to do it myself, so I've hired someone else to exercise for me, like a whipping boy. No, that's not right. I've hired someone else to whip me into shape, getting me up every morning 90 minutes earlier than I've risen in years and playing loud music that forces my body to gyrate uncontrollably. Yeah, that's closer to the mark.

Well, I have a confession to make. And as confessions go, this is a pretty big one. It's time I come out of the closet; I bought an Apple computer. I know, I know, don't even start on me about owning the only Apple in a PC house, nor on how the hardware costs twice as much to do the same damn thing as a windows machine (these days it's the same hardware, but still twice as much). I just could not help myself.

Say, clever, I like the integration of this blog, but feel compelled to keep using wordpress for the moment. Maybe I'll phase the old WP out in favor of a pure one site software package solution. I wonder how it would integrate with the places wp pushes to?

Christmas is almost here, but more importantly the winter solstice has passed, so now I can look forward to longer days at long last, yep, summer is just around the corner, I can feel it.