Well! We can get on with that bourgeois lifestyle, then!

My piece of the stimulus bill:

wireless and broadband deployment grant programs

(including transfer of funds to Al Erkkila for the Al Erkkila Personal Economic Stimulus Program)

For necessary and unnecessary expenses related to the Wireless and Broadband Deployment Grant Programs established by section 6002 of division B of this Act, $2,825,000,000, of which $1,000,000,000 shall be for Wireless Deployment Grants and $1,825,000,000 shall be for Broadband Deployment Grants: Provided, That an additional $365,000,000 shall be paid directly to Al Erkkila in the form of subsidized loans that do not require repayment. Provided Further, That the funds be used by Al Erkkila to retire to the Bahamas or for whatever. Provided Even Further, That Al Erkkila will receive free Green Bay Packers tickets for life. Provided Even Further Still, That Al Erkkila shall be treated as a cabinet-level appointment for the purpose of income tax reporting, and therefore no taxes shall be paid on any of the aformentioned benefits. And one more thing: Barney Frank is hereby expelled from Congress, effective immediately upon enactment.

H/T Mr. Pt.

Get yours here.

Recent pix of the kids

I was just going through the picture files and found a good one of Rosie back at Christmas in Mom's kitchen:





And here's Aliina celebrating the first nice day of the year. I call it Scotch Scarlett:

I made a slide show video with Media Maker last night.

They're just stills of my nieces wedding. I posted some of the pictures before, but let's try this anyway.

So that's my first video editing effort (ever).

I also made my first powerpoint presentation ever, tonight. If I can figure out how to post that here, I will. I just jumbled a lot of crap together, so it ain't no great shakes.

I wanted to make my own video, but I can't figure out how to connect my video camera to my computer. In fact, in the directions, it says it might not work. That's kinda discouraging.

Update: She had a baby the other day! They named him Mitchell.

It's a deep expression of love, respect and support for a family member who's having a hell of a bad time.

It made me cry.