Welcome to 2005

I'd like to say something optimistic about the upcoming year, but frankly I'm suffering too much from outrage overload. Plus, with disasters both man-made (like, say, Iraq) and natural (Indonesia's recent troubles) all around us, it's hard to have a bright outlook right now. And frankly, the prospect of four more years of BushCo should be enough to make anyone feel the need for a drink or five. I can only hope that the SCLM grows a backbone and starts holding that administration's feet to the fire about the crap they keep trying to push off on the rest of us.

I reckon one of these days I ought to follow along with the rest of the crowd and have my animal pictures on Fridays... I don't have house cats anymore, so no catblogging, and my dogs just aren't photogenic enough -- the weiner dog is pretty odd, but she would really need video to do her justice -- so that kind of limits my options. I guess I could hang around the local aquarium shop and take pictures of reef tank fish...