I’ve been getting some interesting junk e-mails recently.  They don’t advertise anything or contain attachments.  They are simply as follows:

Subject: Best

Body: your life is crap

I guess you have to respect someone who sends out millions of e-mails just to insult the recipients.  Right?

Scraping wallpaper and painting:  Both are currently competing to be my new least favorite thing in the world.  After spending hours on a stepladder scraping adhesive off the walls, I thought it couldn’t get any worse.  Painting those walls, however (which I had assumed would be the “easy” part), is proving to be just as fucking annoying.

I think I’ve decided that home ownership kind of sucks a bit…

A week or so ago, I received an automated phone call directed at state and congressional district delegates.  It asked only 2 questions, one of which was, “If you were to vote today, which of the following would you vote for:  1) John McCain; 2) Mitt Romney; 3) Mike Huckabee; 4) Ron Paul.”  The inclusion of the neoconservatives’ arch enemy, Ron Paul, made me wonder about the nature of the call.  I certainly wouldn’t put it past the GOP to try and flush out Paul supporters amongst the delegates.  To be safe, I punched in number one (”Yes, sir.  I love John McCain…let’s kill some goddamned Iraqis!”)

I didn’t realize the connection when I received an e-mail informing me that I had been removed from the Ron Paul Delegates meetup group.

Later on Mike Toles told me that I had actually been called by our group’s auto-dialer.  My answer had immediately red-flagged me as some kind of infiltrator.  He discovered this after mentioning my name to the organizer, who responded, “Don’t trust that guy…he’s a McCain supporter!”  Fortunately, he explained the story to her (which I had previously told him about) and brought me back into the circle of trust.

I wish politics weren’t so complicated…

Anyway…tomorrow’s the big day.  Congressional District 6.  I’ll let you know how it goes.

Holy crap!  We went to Home Depot to get the paint for our interior last night:  $180!  The figure includes 6 gallons of paint (beige, green and red…although I’m sure the woman of the house would refer to them with much fancier names), and all of our supplies.

I’ve also decided that preparing a home for painting really sucks.  We keep meaning to get started, but there’s always an electrical outlet to remove or a corner to tape up.

It’s gonna look really nice one day though…

Announcing one of the major reasons updates have been slow recently:  Autumn and I are moving into a condo.  Based on the following pictures of it, though, you can see that we have a lot of work to do to make it “ours.”  Pretty much everything in the following pictures will be updated to have a much more modern look to it.  I’ll be doing my best to keep you all updated on its progress…

As was the case with Ghosts I-IV, Nine Inch Nails has once again released a free album online.  It’s called The Slip, and can be found here.  This is starting to get a little crazy, but I’m not gonna complain.

Allow me to take a moment to apologize for the lack of updates recently.  Autumn and I have been too busy for me to find any free time, but this will be changing soon.  Tonight, a new Webcam Classic.  The Kris Story will also return with regular updates tomorrow.

Thank you for your patience.

Last Wednesday, I headed to Borders to pick up my copy of Ron Paul’s new book, The Revolution: A Manifesto.  Despite the book being officially released that day, it was not on the new release rack.  Despite the announcement that same day that the book would debut at #7 on the New York Times bestseller list, it was not found on any end-cap or visible place.  When I finally asked someone for assistance, I was brought to a cluttered shelf where I finally spotted a measly 2 copies, side-faced, amidst a ton of copies of Barack Obama’s, Audacity of Hope.  They also wanted $21 for it…the full retail value.

While Borders seemed clueless about this book’s potential, Amazon had sold enough copies to propel it to their #1 spot.  You’ve gotta love a free market that allows companies like Amazon to put companies like Borders out of business by sheer virtue of being so much more in tune with the needs of the customer.