Quick hits, October 24, 2008

So it's less than 11 days to the general election in November. Both sides are going all out with their ads to attack the other candidate, leaving the alienated independent voters in the dust. The mindset for me is: Let's get this over with. But it's only October 24. It ain't bloody November 4. Crikey. My impatience and anxiety will start to precipitate.

Where I will be working is just a short walk away. Near the Bedlam House, by a Filipino fish market and a couple hundred paces from a KFC, lies a fire station where my precinct will be voting. I thought I was set to vote at the Long Beach Job Corps. But I suppose having a lunchtime call with the Colonel over the results in Kentucky would be so bad. Actually, I think the polls down there won't close for a few hours. But I've got a few options for lunch. That's the important thing.

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Meanwhile, I get some news from danbooru, a site that I normally visit (and one of the places where I forward deviants in case they are looking for sources for the shots I post on deviantART), and it's some humbling stuff.

Frivolous flagging (post #336693 with reason "Do Not Want"). While the image in question isn't particularly good, it is about the third or fourth time he's flagged an acceptable image for deletion without a proper reason.

I flag the right image that deserved to be kicked off the site...but I don't explain why. Essentially I wasn't doing what I normally would do on MiniTokyo (in that case, it would be because of poor quality, bad extractions, or a better version of the same image was posted, and I FULLY explain why).

Assholes.

Well, I don't really go there other to grab, fav and vote up images I like. And I don't post on the comments and the forums as much as I do on dA. But every now and then you need to have the wheels fall off to keep yourself on the ground at all times. And so the Senate In My Head passed an act to make it mandatory to give a proper reason for deletion for images flagged on danbooru.

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We are already through two games of the 2008 World Series and we are all square at one game. This is looking quite good.

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So now I am taking this new medication, called Depakote (Valproate semisodium), which allows me to treat these ADHD symptoms (which have reared their ugly head for the first time since my elementary and middle school days), and I have been responding well to them. I'm not as irritable, and I am more reserved in the way I talk and if I am allowed to whoop and holler, I do so. It's an interesting new pill that goes hand in hand with the Seroquel; but I may need to consider making some diet changes too.

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