The Demonweasel Speaks

So who’s thrilled about us making history? Who is finally happy that he can say he’s from Ohio after an election? This one.

Of course, Ralph Nader has to go an ruin it again, by being a thoughtless dick

Fuck you, pal.

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In other news, I got a new phone, a Blackjack 2, which is superdope, and now I can organize all the store stuff I forget about, as well as email and internet from my phone, as well as write in Mobile Word when the mood strikes. It’s kind of neat.

Of course, now I have to Kenzie an iPhone, because she wants supercool internets too.

I have my crack team working on fixing the RSS and updating the Wordpress on this site, and when that happens I’ll probably start moblogging. I’ve fallen in love with Facebook, as a surprising number of people in my family are on there. I also started on twitter (user: demonweasel), but I’m still shaking the kinks out of that. That goes directly to my phone, which is cool.

The iPhone kind of scares me. It’s like a little touch-screen Terminator, ready to bite your fingertips off. I don’t need that kind of fingertipless hassle.

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I want to say something eloquent about this time in history, about what this means in the face of the last 8 years, and what it means about the long road we have to dig ourselves out of the hole this nation is in. I don’t really have the words because others have said them better than I, but I do know that this road is steep and fraught with danger. All we’ve won is the opportunity to try to change things.

Remember all that shit we gave Bush, Dems? Well, now it’s their turn. You thought the campaign was bad? We had 8 years of Vampire Bush t-shirts and “Impeach Bush” stickers, now they get their say, and its going to be nasty. Remember to be better and be gracious in victory. Even when people like Rush Limbaugh say that he only won because of white guilt and try to cloud the issue with non-facts. Remember that this is not a blank check to get “those people.” It’s my sincere hope that what comes out of this is a Republican Party that backs away from its Social Conservative wing and focuses on where they initially came from. Even though its not a party I’d go to, it gets the whackos out. Maybe that’ll encourage us to get our whackos out, or at least under control. I’m looking at you, Pelosi. You guys had two years to do shit, and shit is exactly what you did. Now let’s have some real leadership.

End of nonRant.

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The move into the store front next door is a done deal now for the first of the year. I’ve got my graph paper floor plan and my fixture cutouts made up and Tony and I play with them like chess everyday. It’s going to be supersweet.

We are currently in the process of building a new webstore that will function through Amazon, so that’s kind of dope too. It’s going to be a crazy Fall, and crazier Winter. We even had someone approach us about financing some other expansion. That’s a real and true long shot, but kind of makes us feel like big shots. That’s dangerous thinking, because we’re not big shots. We’re like, medium shots in a small shot pond.

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I downloaded way more techno/club music than I needed to. Like, by half. This is what not having a lot of music around lately has caused.

It’s nice that the day after a critically important election, all I have to worry about is too much techno music.