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September 2, Fri
+ Harddrive Failure
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11:10 AM
Oh my gosh. Sorry for disappearing for two weeks, but this time I have a valid reason. I just got back from Boston last Monday, and the stupid harddrive on my 12" PowerBook failed last Wednesday morning. I was able to retrieve my music from my 15GB 3G iPod, but since I used iPhoto to organize my pictures, and I didn't backup any of them, basically I lost all my pictures from last year as well as all my work. It sucks big time. I only have my PowerBook for a year (not even), and I was totally not expecting the harddrive to fail. Well, I don't think I've dropped it or anything; I really don't know how did that happen. Anyway, I brought it in to Academic Computing Services on campus since they are Apple authorized service provider. For some reason they said I wasn't under warranty even though I bought my computer for less than a year ago. I don't know, but I don't remember if I had registered my PowerBook and send in the warranty or not. But anyway, since I don't have AppleCare, it would have cost me almost $200 to fix my PowerBook; $147 for a new 60GB harddrive and $50 for 1 hr repairing fee. Well, at least they said I should be able to get it back within a day or two. When I went in on Friday to pick up my PowerBook, the lady just handed it back to me without charging me. I was standing there waiting for them to charge me, but the lady said that's it and I could go, and on the paper record they gave me it said I've warranty. So I just hurry up and left before they change their mind. Well, one thing I know for sure, if they did mess up, I'm not going back there anytime soon. So basically this week I've been reinstalling all the softwares and widgets and such, trying to get my PowerBook back to how it used to be.
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September 5, Mon
+ Michael Moore's Letter to Bush
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11:50 PM
Friday, September 2nd, 2005
Dear Mr. Bush:
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?
Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of
Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!
I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?
And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you
specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!
On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.
There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.
No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!
You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.
Yours,
Michael Moore
www.MichaelMoore.com
P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with
them before they get to DC on September 21st.
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September 9, Fri
+ Wishes Don't Come True
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05:22 AM
It's almost 5:30 in the morning. I'm still wide awake... thinking... about a lot of things. Sometimes I wish I don't come here and post only when I'm sad or depress or lonely. I don't want my blog to be a place where only memories of my sadness and loneliness stored. I remember I used to listen to those romantic love songs and watch those romantic movies; I used to believe in love; used to believe that I'd find true love eventually, that I'd find someone to share my life with, that no matter how long it maybe, it is all worth waiting, that wishes do come true. But as I get older, I don't know anymore; those might just be a bunch of fairytales. How often do people find true love? Maybe they do, but just not me? Then I would tell myself, I just had been looking for love in all the wrong places, places where true love is nowhere to be found; places where the ones you love would never love you back. Then I told myself, I don't need someone else to make me happy. This is my life, and there is a lot more to it than just love and relationship and ultimately sex... I have my own two hands for that. I would kept myself busy with other stuff; keeping my mind occupied and my heart empty. But who am I kidding but myself? One often dismisses what one can't get. I just kept running from my biggest fear; kept giving myself excuses, but whenever people talked about relationships or love, all I felt is a puddle of loneliness. Will I ever be able to experience love and the bittersweet that comes with it? Do I keep going around, continue to search for love in those wrong places where true love doesn't exist? Or do I just keep waiting, like lyrics from those bitter love songs, forever waiting for that one true love to show up?
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September 25, Sun
+ Fall Quarter Begins
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03:23 PM
We've finally completely moved into our new apartment and unpacked most of the stuff and kind of settled in last week. I'm very much enjoying out new place right now. I've been the one trying to keep the place clean and neat. Just paid my tuition for this quarter a few days ago and now I'm broke. I guess I can still survive until the next paycheck, I just need to keep an eye on my spending.
School has started this past Thursday. I've only had 2 of my classes, so I can't tell how hectic this quarter is going to be for me yet. One thing I know is that the frat is going to take up quite a bit of my time, especially since I've decided to take on a little brother. The Rush has been going well. We've quite a few potential pledges. Things have been going great at work. Got my regular office hours all set. I'll be at the Resource Center Monday 8 to 11 am and Wednesday 4:30 to 9:30 pm. Of course I'll also be there for various org meetings and events as well.
Today I learned something important. Whenever you need to make a decision regarding people, someone is going to get hurt, if no one else get hurt usually you're the one who gets hurt. That's why I hate making decision. Why can't people just tell me what they want me to do? Call me irresponsible.
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