fonts suck!

I have managed to completely mess up my font situation on my home computer. I think I deleted some important system fonts while trying to wrangle FontBook, because now everything is completely screwy. Regular old standard system fonts are defaulting to other ones, etc. Right now this is supposed to be displaying in nice smooth anti-aliased Arial as I type this, and it looks all Helvetica-y and somewhat jagged, even though Arial appears to be activated.

I think I might actually have to reinstall something. Yuck.

Happy birthday, Bob! I can’t believe my youngest brother is 24. Wow.

So, my division at work gave out Christmas gifts yesterday… a nice card with a nice imprinted message, along with a sheet of address labels featuring our home address… which is all very nice. But then, included in the card, was a donation request form. Merry Christmas, now return some of that paycheck! Many companies give out holiday bonuses — THEY give US a little something extra (and I’ve never had any illusions that this would actually occur at my office). But asking US to give money back?? And in the guise of a Christmas card??? Talk about tacky!! They might as well have said “Yeah, happy holidays, whatever. Now, down to the real business — give us your money.”

We have finally acquired a Christmas tree. We got a real one this year (spiky old Scotch Pine, but they all turn brown and die within a couple weeks anyway). We might look for a nice fake tree during the post-holiday sales. We haven’t named him yet. Oswald was our tree a couple of years ago. I’m having trouble thinking of a good name for this one. Maybe Emporer Crumpington. Now, for the fun part — decorating! I loooooove my ornaments. Doc bought them for me a couple Christmases ago. They are freakin’ gorgeous. I don’t get all girly and knick-knacky about much of anything, but I just loooooove these ornaments.

I put lights in the tree in the front yard and on the garden gate on Sunday night. And some around the interior of the house as well. I guess I have a little more holiday spirit this year than usual. Maybe it’s that two week vacation I’m taking starting next week.

OK, on to other more important topics. I could talk for a while about the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the way the media has reported on it, but Hillsman at work summed it up best this morning: “Four more years.”

. He’s probably right, too. I haven’t been paying enough attention to the Democratic debates, but it seems like the Dems are a house divided this year. If they do not get together and strongly back one guy, ONE GUY (or gal, although that’s not looking likely, even thought it is freakin’ 2004, for god’s sake), then the Dem vote will be split and Bush will be a no-brainer in 2004.

And I do mean no-brainer.