I took today off from work. Daniel's parents are in town, and the plan is to go see the Chagall exhibit at SFMOMA with them and Daniel's sister Diana this afternoon, and then do dinner. Should be fun.

Got myself all set up with Dreamweaver and RoboHelp yesterday at work, so I can start working on some online help projects. I took a couple hour break from indexing to do some tutorials. RoboHelp is okay, I guess. Whatever. Dreamweaver is fun! Look, ma! I can make links just by dragging this icon to this window here! I can change my background color six times a minute without having remember codes in hexadecimal! I can make an image map in less time than it takes to brew espresso!

Wheeeeeee!

Of course, I don't know that I'll ever want to make an image map. But now I can.

The Cleverest Tech Writer of All gave me a copy of one of her help projects to mess with. "You can play around with this and break it," she said. My brain, of course, took this as a challenge - now I have to find some particularly imaginative way to screw it up.

I got my sample ballot for the recall election. Boy, this one's a real winner, eh? First we have the recall itself. I'm voting no on that, not because I think Davis hasn't been a pretty crappy governor, but because the recall seems like an expensive and quite probably ineffective way to remedy that crappiness. And also because if the recall kicks Davis out of office, I'm afraid that no California governor will ever serve a full term of office in peace again. It's just not that hard to get these kinds of things on the ballot in California. You could get a proposition to repeal the laws of thermodynamics onto the ballot in California if you got the right crazy millionaire behind it.

Oh, yeah. Propositions. We only have two on this ballot. First comes Proposition 53, which is only mildly idiotic - it requires that 3% of the state General Fund be earmarked for infrastructure projects. Perfectly reasonable, except that we're already in a state budget crisis that's already being exacerbated by various state and federal requirements that certain kinds of money be spent certain ways. So, yeah, let's tie our lawmakers' hands further! That'll help.

Then there's Proposition 54, which prohibits state and local governments from classifying people on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, or national origin. Brought to you by the people who ended affirmative action at UC Berkeley, people who seem to think that we can end racial discrimination by, among other things, making it completely impossible to officially document its existence.

Come on, people: Social injustice is not the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Even if you can't see it, it can still see you.

Ah, politics.

I just realized that I still have another day or two of TorCon report to put up. Maybe I'll go take care of that before it all becomes hopelessly out of date.