DAMN that's a lot of boxes.

That's pretty much the best, and quite honestly ONLY, way to describe my room right now. 95% of my current belongings are packed into any of 4 boxes that are labeled and ready to be sent off, 3 to my next command and one filled with stuff I don't want/need anymore back home to my folks..the last box'll be loaded up Sunday night with my TV, Gamecube, and computer.

So yeah, I'm more or less ready to get the hell out of here.

Still scared sick about the whole ordeal, though...moving does that to me, I've finally realized.

Oh well.

And now for something a bit more bizarre...

A couple up in Seattle, Mr & Mrs Evan Buchanan, filed a lawsuit earlier this week over a brick in the ground.

More specifically, they made a contribution to help fund the building of a playground, and in return they were allowed to have an inscription placed in one of the bricks used for a sidewalk. The inscription they wanted to put on it was "Thank you Jesus, Daria & Evan Buchanan".

The inscription that actually went ON the brick was nothing more than their names.

Now I suppose you think I'm going to tell them to shut up and get over it because of seperation of church and state crap, right?

Wrong.

The Buchanans are perfectly right in being pissed off about this. This isn't like what that dipstick in Alabama pulled with the 10 Commandments. We're not talking about a 3-ton slab of rock meant for no other purpose than to cram Christianity down the world's throat, but rather a brick offering a small little piece of thanks and being nothing more than a tiny, completely harmless expression of a couple's beliefs that simply angling one's head up about 5 degrees takes out of sight and mind.

The Buchanans weren't violating a government facility with a massive display that basically says "M@ R3L1610N R0XX0RZ. J00RS 5UXX0RZ.", nor were they deliberately trying to shove their beliefs in everyone's face. They made a contribution for a good cause and simply wanted to make a tiny little statement about it that people could very easily ignore.

On the other hand, however, I can't really say I can find much fault with the company that had the line "Thank you Jesus" omitted. With all the 'seperation of church and state" mudslinging going on these days, I can perfectly well understand why they wouldn't want to risk it.

Still, the solution's simple enough: Remake a brick with their original inscription on it, grab a chisel, gank out the old brick, put in the new brick, and put a little bit of fresh mortar around it. 2 guys with a pair of hammers could have this done in under half an hour, and that'd be the end of it.

So yeah...nobody really committing a wrong here, just a simple case of erring on the side of caution. A quick 20-minute fix and everyone'll be happy.

...That's it.