Peter's Place

I just got finished watching this video. I don't know if it's the combination of the music, lyrics, and images but I was pretty much bawling by the time it was over. The fact that I've been off my psych meds for about two weeks now probably doesn't help things, either (I wish Medicaid and Medicare would stop their little pissing match and pay for my damned anti-Depressants!): So yeah, run over and sign the petition, NOW! Link back to my Gather.com article on this topic.

I just lost five hours of my life due to a theft that occurred when I submitted my debit card number to pay for two hours of Wi-Fi service from an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. Here's what happened: On 2 February 2009 I was up visiting Mom in Harford, CT . I was really itching (and needing) to get on-line, and knew that I would have to resort to finding some WiFi hotspots when I went up, as my mobile broadband was temporarily disconnected (I need money to pay the bill!). So before my trip, I prepared by printing out a list of Wi-Fi hotspots in the Hartford, CT area (both paid and free). I was using a free Wi-Fi spot (one of the few in the area that were open late) but unfortunately, the battery in my notebook had drained since I'd been using it for a while and there wasn't anyplace for me to plug in. I decided to search out some of the paid spots and came to Barnes & Noble , which had a Starbucks cafe inside of it, which provided Wi-Fi for a fee through AT&T's WiFi...

OK So I've basically had to choose between one of the three FireFox extensions that I've been trying out that integrate the Twitter service into FireFox. I think I've got my top pick; however, there are some issues that I need to take up with them, and some features I'd like to see implemented: The new version of Twitbin (2.0) is much, much better than the previous release and really puts it back into the running as a contender. In fact, the only reason that I started looking for an alternative is because I found Twitbin to be pretty much broken--but that was the old version. So I love love love the RT (that's "Retweet" for you non-Twitterites ... a RT is when you basically twit out someone else's tweet in order to help spread the word to your follows; it's basically a "pay it forward" form of good-will on Twitter) function in Twitbin; I don't know of any other Twitter extension that offers the ability to RT with the click on an ic...

2 February 2009, 14:00 OK, so the Psycho Bitch (my younger brother's daughter's mother--who, when she met my sister told her "well I would never have a child out of wedlock because I am a CHRISTIAN ") just showed up to my brother's apartment building (not the apartment itself but the building). She's actually standing downstairs, outside in the cold with her daughter (my younger brother's daughter, aka my niece Cherokee Phrakousonh, whom I have never met) and refusing to come inside because she saw me poke my head out of the window (I poked my head out of the apartment window because I heard somebody calling "Hellooooooooo" downstairs--not in a loud voice mind you but in a normal talking voice). Now, why she didn't pick up the phone and call my brother to let her know that she was here, I can't tell you because I don't know. Now here's the best part: essentially, because this psychotic "Christian do-gooder" firmly ...