what is this crap?

i quite frankly don't care if blogger is out of beta, i have no desire to switch to the new layout and especially i have no desire to tie it to my google account (i know, i know, they're tracking the cookies anyway. shut up ;)

but mostly, i refuse to put up with this web two-point-fucking-o semantic bullshit crap. it's bad enough i have to think of a title for each post (because otherwise the archive looks messy), but now, now they want labels, otherwise known as "tags," on each post. fuck off, google. fuck off all of you and your stupid semantic tagging bullshit. it won't work. HTML barely works, for fuck's sake, or why do we have to test webpages in multiple browsers? now you expect random people making up random words to come up with something usable? ha.

end of rant from a bitter geek with critical thinking skills who lived through the dot-coms. hmf. tag that.

aaaaaaand...christmas.

holiday, holiday, holiday. why so many this time of year? because we need excuses to eat lots of carbs and fat so we can hide from the impending winter? mmm...fat. if only we could hibernate.

it just doesn't seem there are as many crowded together in any other 6 weeks or so of the year. at least, i can't think of any. very odd.

well, i hope everyone is having a good time building up a layer of fat for winter protection and exchanging presents :) me, i'm just gonna try to remember to spend my "christmas cash" before august this year.

happy winter.

except it's sort of warm, and raining. el nino does weird things.

all presents are bought! gragh.

happy hannukah.

yes, i know it's a little late. it's been a weird weekend. but not too weird to celebrate the festival of lights!

arms race.

well, maybe we won't switch to verizon's fios after all (whenever they get it installed). just got our bill from comcast and hey, they've silently upgraded our service to 16mbps/1mbps (that's 2 megabytes a second).

neato.

seasonal pleasures.

i am maintaining the illusion that it is stilll autumn. the equinox isn't until the 21st. nevermind that tomorrow's high is going to be 32F/0C.

one of the things i like indulging in when autumn rolls around is buying some real, preservative-free apple cider and then forgetting about it in the fridge until it starts to ferment. i found my half-gallon the other morning, and ooo, it's all sparkly with natural carbonation and mildly alcoholic.

num.

chocolate addictions.

dark chocolate covered peppermint altoids are shockingly addicting. i shall tell myself that i bought the tin in celebration of winning nano again.

now i just gotta find me some of the ginger ones. as in, chocolate covered ginger altoids, not the regular ones. *slaver, etc*