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I think Fark's headline on the election results says it best...

Republicans: "All your states are belong to us."

So, for the next 2 years, we get a rubber-stamp congress for Dubya. Not that it really matters, I suppose. The Democrats don't stand for much of anything any more. I agree with flwyd; two-party politics don't seem to work very well. Of course, that would first require the minor parties -- the Greens, the Libertarians, the Reformists, and others -- to actually get some media attention that didn't treat them as crackpot splinter groups. I'd wager that the vast majority of voters either don't know that these parties exist, or don't have a clue what they stand for.

To get that message out, these parties need funding. With the major parties voraciously hogging the lion's share of fundraising, there's little left to go around, especially with McCain-Feingold in effect as of 12:01 this morning.

So what will I do? When I update my voter information, I think I'll register as a Green Party member. I'll encourage my friends to do the same. Even if the party has little chance of making a direct impact now, that can change. The Greens are a lot closer to my stand on the major issues than either major party, so even if I can't make decisive votes, I can vote my conscience.

Blar.

I fear I am coming down with a sickness of sorts. I ache, I'm sniffly, and my throat hurts just a little. I'm also feeling mentally wiped. I think I may head home early, so I can rest a bit. Work's slow enough, it shouldn't be a problem.

I detest my clients... again.

Just got a complaint from a customer that a change they requested on the 18th didn't get made until yesterday.

*looks back at his LJ*

Ah, yes. The 18th. One of the days last month that I was about to go bug-fuck insane from overwork. Now, I do realize that I should have gotten the change made. However, they never bothered to follow up on it. As is, I was so busy that day, and the few days after, that if something wasn't brought up repeatedly, it slipped under my radar.

So now they want me to call and say, "I can't do that quite yet."

Thing is, it never works that way. No one ever plans to get swamped with work. I never plan to have 3 of my other clients call with issues to fix, and time I take to contact one client that I can't make a change yet is time that I'm not spending fixing things for the other 3 clients. The last thing on my mind is communicating my workload to the client, because I know they don't care. Everyone wants their work done now, and I can tell them I'm too busy 'til I'm blue in the face, and it won't make a lick of difference.

If they don't care, then I don't care. I'll get to it when I get to it. If they want me to do follow-up work, then they should follow up on their requests.

Oh, and they complained that I had to reboot the server because the search engine had locked up, and that I should call them before any 2-minute reboot, to let them decide if it's worthwhile. This, after getting complaints that the search engine was broken and needed immediate fixing. Well, you can't get both, people. Either it needed fixing (which required a reboot), or it didn't. You can't have it both ways.