Are we there yet?

I was going to leave the title as down and dirty but I didn't want to have people disappointed at what I was about to post. No it isn't naughty bits it is the American Political scene from the last few days. The campaigns are getting so ridiculous. The Republicans are well..just making up stuff. I will be you don't see campaigns like this in the UK. Watch this and see a sample of how ugly this is all getting Stateside.

Well, I read Playwrite27's blog and saw that so went right to the source and there it is on the BBC's official website. David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/news/latest/081029_news_04

Apparently he will be leaving at the end of the specials which means Series 5 will start with a brand new Doctor. Who will be the next Doctor? Is it David Morrissey? Any ideas. Really sorry to see David Tennant go. He has been brilliant. David we will miss you. Bye Ten

Things I don't like:
1. Don't like to travel much, have migraines, it makes them worse.
2. Forest Gump, I am the only person in the world who didn't like that movie at all, maybe I will post on my reasons tomorrow
3. Public ladies loos - they are disgusting
4. Rude people

Things I do like:
1. cats - goes without saying
2. fall weather
3. random kindness
4. good cheese

The work saga continues. My supervisor was off today. I think even she is job hunting too. Everyone hates the new rules and everyone is leaving. Except me for now. It's really hard to find a job in this economy and I really am hoping I can move to the East Coast, New York where my brother lives. Hi Playwright! moving near you I hope one day Anyway the morale is pretty low. Micromanagement rules.

Oh bother. Gabbie, my cat, just grabbed a stalk of my spider plant and I caught her chewing it. You know that that means. Cat barf in a few hours. Blech! Time to go to bed.

cheers, nighty nite
Cassie

Now I know this isn't going to happen but there are rumours of Paul McGann appearing in one of the Doctor Who specials coming up in 2009. I think that would be fantastic. I also have read that not one but two ex-Doctors might appear. I hope one is Paul McGann and and the other, well not likely but I would be in Doctor Who heaven *squee territory*

Good evening all.
This is going to be short and I will post more later. I am watching Constantine on AMC's Horror fest movie marathon. You wouldn't think I would like this movie, after all it is a horror movie and I am not drawn to those types of movies but I like Keanu Reeves and he makes it a good movie. I am going back to watching. Happy Halloween all.

Got home from work this lovely Saturday afternoon and turned on MSNBC, my favourite cable news network. Brian Williams is talking to Governor Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain about terrorists. Since they keep bringing up that word at every turn, Brian Williams asked them what their definition of a terrorist is. Funny by their definition Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were terrorists. They violated British law and were fomenting to bring down the government. If you look up The Boston Tea Party in Wikipedia you find that the colonists were a right bunch of terrorists. Not liking the tea tax they dumped all the tea in Boston Harbour. I dare say if any colonists today dumped all the tea from the Lipton tea company in Boston Harbour they would just be jailed. I think I can just sum it up, they haven't a clue as to what they are talking about. End of story.

Back to the lovely fall day here in the Midwest. Beautiful fall day, about 66 degrees Fahrenheit nice morning drive to work. Ah, more rules are on the way at work. Many of my coworkers are jumping the ship so to speak, looking for jobs elsewhere. The rules I talked about in previous posts are being expanded. Fun. Think I will take a nap before evening.

For those outside the US here is the NBC player video clip of last nights, political fun on Primetime Saturday Night live. It features, Will Farrell as George W. Bush.enjoy

How am I going to get to sleep tonight. Grrr. I came home from work the the bathroom faucet is dripping and stopped up. Fortunately I can call someone in the morning but now I am going to have to listen to that drip, drip, drip all night long..

Speaking of drips..sorry that wasn't very nice. The Republican National Committee spent 150,000 on Sarah Palins wardrobe, makeup and hair. Now at first I thought people were nitpicking after all if you plucked me out of obscurity I would need a complete extreme makeover from middle aged less than stellar looking to classy and confident. The problem with it all was not the amount, at least to me, it was where they did their shopping. Did they go to T.J. Maxx? no! Target? Walmart? NO. They went to Neiman Marcus and Sax Fifth Avenue, the most expensive posh stores in the US. Nice going. I want a make over too

I was taking a nap before going to work at noon today. I was awakened by a knock at the door. Dummy me, instead of looking through the peephole, I just brazenly open the door. There is this very, very tall young woman on the other side. She starts telling me that my neighbours had a few questions and she was ever so ready to hand me a pamphlet to explain it all. I thanked her, sorry, it's hard not to be polite sometimes, and then quickly shut and locked the door.

I looked at the pamphlet and behold it was a watchtower pamphlet. Just one little thing wrong with this picture, Jehovah's Witnesses don't send women out on their own and usually men do this and in pairs. My work carpool partner thinks she was casing out the apartment for a boyfriend robber. She wasn't out to save my soul, which is doing fine thank you, it doesn't need saving. Yikes! Robbers!! I gotta remember to not let people in and just look through the peephole first.

D'oh, I learned.

Well. Just when you think you have seen it all, along comes a crazy nutter from Kansas who spams people with an Obama is antichrist email. I can only say she better not lay her head near the ground a squirrel might mistake it for a nut and bury it.

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/content/political-nbc/story.aspx?content_id=1f002368-38a9-4211-b735-44ec65c0f488

Just got home from work a little bit ago. I turn on the old computer and as I get up to go get something, I notice the little old lady across the way is peeking out her window watching me. It is sort of funny because she apparently isn't very tall because she isn't much taller than the window sill. I am just seeing white hair, a pair of glasses and a little face watching me.

Now I am not very exciting but watching me at the computer is apparently fascinating to some. I wonder if I would really freak her out if I did the same thing to her. Probably would scare her so I won't do it. She is really up late, it's 11:34 pm central daylight time.

The election is about 14 days and I can't wait until it's over. The goofiness is reaching an all time high.

For those outside the US here is Saturday Night Live's take on the debates, last week. Pretty funny.

I wuv my kitties. They love me no matter what. When I come home from work they are at the door to greet me as if I have been gone for days. When I wake up in the morning and walk around with bed hair, my cats are looking up at me in admiration. Today I had to clip Gabbie's claws and she just howled and ran off after, then just a few minutes later she came up to me and wanted me to pet her as she forgave me for my horrible deed. I wuv cats.

Hi all. It is a beautiful evening in the Midwest. The sun has not set and it is a crisp fall day. Here are some pictures I snapped with my camera phone. The first one is fall foliage outside my window. The second is gabbie the jungle cat with my plants that I brought in from outside. The third is Captain Jack Harkness, little baby just wanted is picture taken.

For those in the UK an "edumacation" on certain vice presidential candidates, no names mentioned..

For those outside the US here is the Final Debate from You Tube, oh and I did say a few days ago John McCain sounded like the Penguin from Batman....

Sarah Palin has ambitions to be President. Just look at this and don't forget to scroll around and see what happens.

http://www.palinaspresident.us/

Just got home from work and I was listening to the debate at work. Arggh!!! John McCain sounded like the crabby old guy who says,"get off my lawn you kids". Senator Obama did a fantastic job and articulated his positions well. Looks like Senator McCain is going to have trouble with women after using air quotes to describe womens' health issues. Smart move. The man is against equal pay and is equally dismissive of women's health issues. What a berk.

For those of you outside the US take a look at the debate on You Tube. It's worth watching. Senator Obama is clearly more presidential and has a command of the issues. McCain just keeps repeating his stump speech from the Republican Convention. He wandered off talking about Joe the Plumber from Ohio and got his facts a bit wrong on Joe. Made quite a few faces and seems to have more tics than a clock. Weird man.

Oh well, enough politics.
Have a great day.
It's fall and the leaves are beautiful.
cheers,
cassie

Was really happy about having the day off and just started frittering away time. My crazy neighbour was at work so woo hoo!! I could live it up. Aunt Mary called and asked me to take her to KMART so she could buy a new phone with bigger numbers. I was glad to do it. I don't know what it says about me. One time someone asked me if I would rather be out drinking with friends or playing checkers with old people and I said playing checkers with old people. I like older people. They're cool and you can learn a lot from them.

We got to KMART and Aunt Mary got a grocery cart, because it helps her to walk in the store, kind of like a walker. Mary said, "it's no fun to get old, something always hurts". We sauntered through the store and finally settled on a nice cheap black phone with big numbers. Aunt Mary was happy. She asked me if there was anything I wanted to look at and I went looking for cheap trainers. They used to call them tennis shoes in the US but now they are being called trainers just like in the UK, at least that is what the advert in the paper said, cheap trainers. I found a nice pair of cheap trainers for $15.00 US dollars which is approximately 20 pounds - no pound sign on this keyboard

We paid for our purchases and then I went to Aunt Mary's and set up the phone for her. I then came home and thought I had a fabulous day off.

Ugh. I had a migraine today. I have had chronic migraines since I was a toddler but today I managed to go to work anyway. Now with those "new rules" I have telling you about at work, they make it really hard to call in. You have to call a hotline and then call your supervisor. Being a peasant isn't easy. I decided to go to work anyway and save my sick days for when the migraines are really, really bad. I took a couple of aspirin, coffee, peppermint and rubbed some tiger balm on my head and I was good to go. I also took a power nap before work and with a hey nonny nonny and a hot cha cha, I felt pretty good.

I have tomorrow off from work so that is probably why I am in a good mood and made it through the day. No dashes to the loo tomorrow. I can take all the time I want. Now for a cup of tea before bed. It doesn't get better than this.

Oh. I took my Aunt Mary out for her 89th birthday dinner. Well, she isn't really my Aunt but she doesn't have family and she has been a family friend since I was little. I ate too much and then she gave me a box of sweets to take home. Oh, my belly aches. I'm just a feeling fat. AND I keep reading about Zappy5871 joining fat fighters and it's making me ashamed of my fatness. I am going to have to either join fat fighters or get a Wii Fit.

This video is from Saturday Night Live's Presidential debate parody. It is pretty hilarious! Enjoy!

Last week I blogged about the new rules at work. A fabulous attempt to micro manage and turn people in to robots. It is all the rage in corporations. We are allowed so many minutes for breaks and if you figure it out you have 4 minutes to dash to the loo. If you have to sit a while then you need to send the supervisor what I call a "poo email" letting them know you spent extra time in the loo. Absurd? It gets better.

This week our new rules included starting out with each phone call with 100 points and you get points deducted for various things. A sneeze on a phone call is a 4 pointer. If you change a word in the script from an "and" to a "the" for example that's 10 bloomin points. Now you are really a slacker.

So today I just figured out that I am doomed and will face the inevitable chewing out for sneezing, clearing my throat and various other transgressions. The fact that I seem to be taking this with good cheer surprises me. I guess it all seems like a bad movie or a cartoon and you just have to laugh at cartoons.

cheers,
Cassie

It's about the videos today. I thought I would share this fanvid that well, is very addictive and you find yourself watching it many times. At the oddest moments you hear this in your head so get ready to share the music.

This needs no introduction. Enjoy.

Below in my blog post I mentioned Sarah Palin's use of the term "hockey moms", when I said I made fun of her folksy terms I meant just that. I have in the past made fun of her folksy terms, which I won't do anymore (see blog post), but I wasn't referring to making fun of hockey moms, just the folksy term if that makes sense.

cheers
cassie

I sat down to watch "Utopia", from Series 3 Doctor Who, what else, and that debate last night just wouldn't let me stop watching it in my head. I said I wasn't going to blog about politics anymore, because it makes my head hurt and here I am going back on my word, again. Jeez.

Chris Matthews, on MSNBC observed that it seemed like a spelling bee for Sarah Palin. I had a similar take only I thought it seemed like she was addressing the PTA (Parent Teacher's Association). Every talking point was crammed in her head like someone packing for a trip but they had to sit on the suitcase to shut it, by her debate prep people. Her astounding inability to grasp complex ideas and her parroting of Republican talking points seemed in stark contrast to Joe Biden's knowledge and grasp of issues in a complex world environment.

If you thought this was going to just be about bashing Sarah Palin, it's not. I actually am feeling sorry for her. She is being used as a prop. If it wasn't for her, McCain would be to use a boxing term, KO'd in the first round. He is still in the ring due to Sarah Palin. I get the feeling they are laughing at her and embarrassed by her lack of knowledge but they know her appearances gets the Republican base fired up.

Supporting my theory that those around don't respect Sarah Palin is the fact that they will no longer LET her do any interviews and they didn't even tell her the campaign was pulling out of Michigan. They aren't telling her ANYTHING and that speaks volumes. They are trotting her out as a prop for campaigns when they find her useful. That's just sad.

It is easy to make fun of her "you betchas" and "hockey moms" and I know I have, but I get the sense that no one is making more fun of her than is the McCain campaign. She is in over her head and they know it. She may have made a good mayor of Wasilla, I have no idea one way or the other. She may have been an effective Governor of Alaska. I don't know that either, but I can tell that the complex greater world is just alien to her. It's not fair to the country and it's not fair to Sarah Palin.

The McCain campaign has been a mean spirited campaign focused on minutia and half truths but none of that compares to how mean it is being to Sarah Palin. That is not nice.

I think I will go back to watching Doctor Who.

Here we go again today with the new rules. So today, someone is checking over my work and says you need to put this number here, ok, well mister-is-your-head-up-your-behind, I put the number there. You just aren't looking at it. So with all the new rules, I followed the new rules and I got one of my orders sent back to me for an error. Who are these people? Have IQ's just suddenly dropped and I missed it?

As my friend in the cubicle next to me says, "got your cranky pants on today?" You bet I have.

We have a new point system at work. Designed to keep plebeians like myself strictly in line. It starts with a hundred points and you get points deducted for various infractions like, sneezing while talking to a customer or clearing your throat. It's like that errant booger cost me 2 points and oh no a wad of spit caught in my throat is costing me 5 points. I am doomed. I can't go five minutes without sniffling as I have allergies which also causes excessive phlegm.

Why is it when some corporate person decides to micromanage and devise medieval ways of keeping the workers in line, I always end up in those jobs. On the bright side I have a job and a good one so I guess I had just better keep that snot rag handy, eh.