2007 end today for us in the United States and I thought I would take some time to sat farewell to this year and welcome in 2008.

We all make our Christmas lists hoping Santa brings us what we want. Sometimes we get it and sometimes we don't and sometimes we get cooler stuff. I stumbled across something today that I wish I had known about so I could have put it on my list. Now I have to wait for my birthday to see if I can get it.

I just got done reading an article at the Washington Post Website about how much the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq cost a month. Quite honestly I am dumbfounded. The numbers are incomprehensible at my level. I cannot fathom the amount of money being spent.

I am not going to discuss the wars, it is overdone and boring. What I want to discuss is the money and try to understand how much money it really is.

As previously stated in my rant about Dell, I purchased three Dell Inspiron Laptops. All of which came loaded with Vista Home Basic. Me being who I am promptly formatted the hard drive and got rid of all the Dell bullshit. I then loaded Vista Ultimate, I was going to load XP but I figured I would give Vista a chance. Here are my observations so far based on a few hours of messing with it.

Just wanted to make a quick post to wish you all a Merry Christmas. I see I got a lot of comments for Christmas so I will reply to them tomorrow when I am back at work :)

I work on Capitol Hill as I have mentioned a few times in the past. I am not much for politics but working here as made me become more aware of what goes on here, especially when it involves the quality of my life.

Where I live I don't have many options for cable and internet. I currently have Comcast digital cable and high speed internet. My only other alternative is Verizon DSL and a satellite dish. I have been a Comcast customer for years. They happened to be my cable and internet provider at my last couple of residences. I never really had a major problem with them until I moved to West Virginia.

I have a new profound hatred for Dell. I have never dealt with a more retarded organization than them. The idiocracy I have experienced is beyond comprehension.

Men, as far as I know, are expected to open doors for women. I figure any man who was raised halfway decent does this. What just happened to me got me thinking.

I wasn't that far off to begin with so this isn't really all that surprising.