This is ridiculous!

What happened to the news this summer? Has it always been this terrible? I don't ever remember the headlines being so obnoxious. After the election ended I thought we'd be in store for more interesting news.

First, we have the swine flu, and everybody freaks-the-fuck out. Huntsville practically shut down for three days because four people got the swine flu. Hasn't anyone ever had taco night before? A little diarrhea probably won't kill you.

Then Michael Jackson dies. Dolphins evolve opposable thumbs and invade New Zealand but nobody notices because we've all gone ape-shit over the death of a man most of us never really respected when he was alive. Half the headlines on my CNN newsfeed were regarding Michael Jackson, most of which were frivolous. Sure, report about his career and his memorial service. Report on the twitter and facebook statuses regarding Michael Jackson? That is the precise moment when we should have realized there's nothing more to report. I hope Eric Clapton gets this much attention when he kicks the bucket.

Now we have this Gates/Crowley debacle. This is what I gathered from the very first article: Gates is a douche bag, Crowley is a douche bag. I've never seen so many headlines about a misdemeanor arrest. At the end of the article I thought "That's it?" and I moved on. America should too. The only person in this situation, President Obama included, who didn't seem to make any mistakes is the lady who placed the 911 call. Good for her, keeping an eye out on a neighbor's home. I refuse to click on any more headlines regarding this story or regarding Michael Jackson. It'd be like the time I accidentally clicked on the Avril Lavigne YouTube video and felt guilty for giving it another view.

Meanwhile, the dolphin overloads contract swine flu and New Zealand is liberated, but no one notices because the new iPhone is released.

New Blog

I'm convinced. I registered this website eight years ago to do lots of things with it, but now all those things are free services provided by other websites. So it goes, my hosting plans expires tomorrow and my domain name expires in September. RIP gamgames.com. That $80 might go toward Super Mario Bros Wii or a charcoal grill.

For continued reading, to www.georgeamills.blogspot.com.

This Blog

I need to renew my hosting plan and domain registration this month, but why pay $80/year when sites like Blogspot and Flickr will allow me the same service for free? I pay because I like owning a unique domain name and I enjoy scripting webpages, but my imminent homeownership has me thinking frugally. The $80 I'd save could buy 2-5 used videogames, 1 or 2 camping trips, 6-9 six packs of beer, Road Hazard Insurance for my new tires, a bicycle trainer, a charcoal grill, or 16 blowjobs from your mom. Is it worth it? Hmm...

Homeowners

Ta-da! Jenny and I are buying a house. We sporadically researched houses out of fanciful leisure, but the sudden knowledge of the $8,000 tax credit and our increasing disgruntlement with our apartment complex pushed us to consider homeownership more seriously.

Our first (baby) step: we contacted a realtor and happened to view the perfect home our first day out. An offer (not ours) was accepted that same day. Well, frak.

Then we got our shit together: laid out our finances, got pre-approved, yadda blah yadda. We found a second perfect house last week (one block away and a mirror image of the former perfect house). There's no room for a man-cave, but I can start homebrewing at a level beyond Mr. Beer.

Well be moving in August. Perhaps Labor Day weekend will mark a suitable time for a house-warming party (e.g. keg, pizza, some Wii, and perhaps Nazi zombies).

P.S. We watched Dod Sno last Saturday, and it's the best movie I've seen all year.