In which I blab about why my country and my high school kind of suck

Who actually thinks of Wal-Mart when they think of romance? Apparently, some people do: Seven Lucky Couples Chosen to Walk Down the Wal-Mart Aisles on 7/7/07. Jeesh.

We stayed up late last night watching America: Freedom to Facism. Even if you're not a documentary-watching sort of person, you should seek this one out; the film brings up some interesting things that a lot of people don't know, but *should* know.

Oh yeah, and on a related note, you can sign for fair and equal treatment of Ron Paul by the media. Yeah, I know, online petitions don't often amount to much, but you never know.

He appeared in the aformentioned movie, and he skews more Libertarian than Republican, but he seems like the only Republican presidential candidate worth mentioning. (in my opinion as a registered Democrat, of course) He looks to be the only no-B.S. guy in a field of opportunists and wingnuts... and yet, the media won't take him seriously, and he's even having trouble getting accepted into GOP debates. But when they *do* let him in, he cleans house! If you like what he's saying, do what you can to prevent the media and the GOP from submarining his campaign.

Oh yeah, and he's supposed to appear on the Colbert Report pretty soon... that should be a fun one! :D

Moving on: I'm getting pretty tired of getting spam e-mail about my high school reunion. Yes, it's less than two weeks away, gosh, I *know* already. If I was all excited about going to it, wouldn't I have already registered? The thing that kind of fires me up, though, is the one I received a day or two ago: a form letter trying to masquerade as a personal letter from a member of the planning committee, about how they want to see me soooo much and are wondering why I haven't registered yet. Um, if they wanted to see me that badly, they could write, or call, or, you know, NOT charge me $70 for the reunion--oh, excuse me, it's $80 after the early registration deadline!

Those two things are what truly annoy me about this whole affair: the incessant cluttering of my inbox, and the *ridiculous* amount of money they're charging! Unless they have a choir of angels lined up to fly Irish Soda Bread down from the heavens and feed it to me one bite at a time, I really can't see the justification for such an outrageous price.

There's a small rebellious streak in me that thinks it'd be funny to gate crash the thing. But, gee, there are things that I could do with my time instead that would actually be *fun*... like see the friends from high school who actually cared enough to keep in touch, and whose company I actually enjoy. (ones who also aren't going to the reunion, incidentally)

In less cranky news, I got a telephoto lens in the mail this morning! :D I didn't have time to play with it before work, of course, but I'm looking forward to it. Wheeee!

Anyhoo, it's time for coffee. Me sleeeepy.

Dear Lazyweb

Taking a page from brad:

My work at The Job involves using Microsoft Outlook. They run a Microsoft Exchange Server, and it handles e-mail, calendars, conference room reservations, the whole bit. So, I'm pretty much required to use Outlook, it seems.

Problem is, I like having my e-mails sorted by project, so I can keep track of everything, separate the general message from the project-specific, etc. I don't see a good way to do that in Outlook, though.

Anybody know how?