We got the Fios fiber optic service from Verizon installed yesterday.  I am really happy with it so far.  The Comcast customer service rep was also quite rude to me when I stopped in to cancel the service, and the line was really long with only two people working the counter.  I am happy to be done with Comcast.

I got a letter from my homeowners association yesterday that said I owe them $507.00!  (Keep in mind I have only made two house payments so far, and we officially closed in July!)  Turns out they had a balance owed from the previous owners, and the nice lady is working it out so the balance is corrected.

I picked up a wireless adapter for the XBox as well as the Force Unleashed game yesterday.  I managed to get online and play some Halo 3 with my friends; something I haven’t done in several months.

On the politics front I am seeing a lot of rancor and vileness against Sarah Palin that I just can’t get behind.  Here is a small town girl who goes from the PTA to mayor of her town, actually takes on corruption and wins, goes on the become Governor of her state while being happily married and raising a family.  (Did I mention that her state loves her and thinks she is doing a great job?) She gets tapped to become McCain’s VP and now she is the worst woman on the planet!  From “Creatioist psyco bitch” to “less f$%#able than a dead pig”; and that’s just from another RPG publisher! Others accuse her of molesting teenagers.  Those represent the more outlandish and frankly vile things I have seen.  Of course there are the simple half-truths and almost-lies about here beliefs and record that are part and parcel of any campaign. But I have to ask; if all you Obama supporters can come up with is name-calling, innuendo and potty-jokes, then what is your candidate really bringing to the table that makes you resort to such tactics? Just askin.

***UPDATE***

Now it seems that some 133t h@x0rs cracked her Yahoo email password and posted screenshots of her email and her contact list.  People are calling her daughters cell phone number and emailing her husband and what not. Gawker.com is keeping the stuff “up there” because she is “newsworthy” and making noise like there are hidden, private messages that she used her Yahoo email for instead of her official email.  Total BS.  I have like six email addresses; my main work email, Skortched Urf’s gmail account, two other gmail accounts, a Yahoo account and a couple associated with other websites I host. Yet no one is pointing to any top secret communications that were supposed to be hidden.  And who in their right mind would use a Yahoo address to keep secrets? So tell me again why Obama is such hot stuff that we have to resort to this kind of non-sense?