Did people watch the SAG awards? I seriously love award shows, but so sad this had no red carpet coverage (except horrible TV Guide channel) and then the awards - iugh - I think on the whole people looked bad - no ties, weird dresses, messy hair. Then there were old actors seeming confused and frail. And the Daniel Day Lewis paying homage to Heath Leadger in his acceptance speech which seemed odd. The whole thing was a mess.

Dinosaur cartoon (no, not that one) for kids: [link]

Explains how dinosaurs were originally good (and vegetarian) but because of Man's sin, dinosaurs became evil.

It came from here [link] which explains how 'Darwinism' is a religion and science really isn't scientific.

...though most people, including scientists, consider the biblical teaching of origins to be religious and consider evolutionary ideas scientific, we should challenge such a view. In the secular media, for instance, the debate is often described as “creationism vs. evolution,” as if the “ism” should not apply to “evolution.” This is not accurate, because believing in evolution, like believing in creation, requires acceptance of a certain presuppositional dogma and requires placing one’s faith in a story about the unrepeatable past. See Science or the Bible?

Also, the term “religion” must be defined clearly. While beliefs and worship practices, procedures, and conduct are involved in religion, any belief system that purports to be a total explanation of reality is more-or-less religion. Thus, insofar as it is an attempt to explain why the world is the way it is, held to with ardor and faith, Darwinian evolution can thus be considered religion.

Oh, my god, Monday. No. No, no, no.

Did anyone else watch Mansfield Park tonight? Am I alone in thinking it really boring and weird with total charisma vacuums instead of actors?

I haven't watched yet but that's too bad. I thought last week's Northanger Abbey was pretty fun. The actor who played Henry Tilney reminded me of Lee Pace kind of. With the crinkley eye smile. Nice!

I don't think my brain is awake enough to fully appreciate the horror that is Monday....

Oh, my god, Monday. No. No, no, no.

My Monday (so far; all of this occurred before 9:30):

*spilled coffee on my white shirt before I ever got out of the car;

*got to work to find that the server is frelled again;

*got to work to find -- through backchannel, NOT through a memo from higher-ups -- that our health insurance is changing at the end of the week (no, we don't know to what company; no, we don't know if our doctors are covered; no, we don't know if our prescriptions are covered).

Apparently the dude who is our contractor for health insurance called *some* of the employees at home this weekend to ask them what meds they were on, what doctors they saw, etc. -- presumably to have a list to work against when picking new insurance -- and, when the employees asked WHY Dude was asking (because, yo, HIPAA), Dude mentioned that our insurance will be changing. At the end of the WEEK.

But Dude didn't bother to call everyone at home, so now we're all buzzing with hearsay and fearmongering.

I expect the snakes to come through the ceiling any moment.

Damn. That sound like a case study in How Not to Manage a Change of Health Insurance Companies.

ION, I have new socks. I was running out of socks that didn't have holes in them. So I bought 18 pairs.

Damn. That sound like a case study in How Not to Manage a Change of Health Insurance Companies.

My company's "HR Department" is Big!Boss's wife and daughter. So, yeah. We can't really complain about how things are done, because then we get in trouble.

t edit Of course, this is better than the year that Big!Boss's wife didn't pay our premium at the beginning of the year, and people tried to go to the doctor and/or get medication for EPILEPSY and were told that their insurance was cancelled.

Hand to god.

(Which makes me think that perhaps I'll get all my meds refilled before the end of the week....)

The printer is frelled.

I am like the walking dead.

Someone called me at 8:30 (and he's a very nice guy) to walk me through a set of changes to one of my documents. It would have been nice to hear about these changes before I spent last week creating a new draft.

I have been earwormed, this morning, by both "Bootylicious" and "Best of Both Worlds" (the Hannah Montana) theme song.

Did people watch the SAG awards? I seriously love award shows, but so sad this had no red carpet coverage (except horrible TV Guide channel) and then the awards - iugh - I think on the whole people looked bad - no ties, weird dresses, messy hair. Then there were old actors seeming confused and frail. And the Daniel Day Lewis paying homage to Heath Leadger in his acceptance speech which seemed odd. The whole thing was a mess.

I don't get the channel that broadcast it, so I missed out. Which I was regretting considering it might be our only awards show this year, but from what you are saying, maybe I am glad I missed it.