Well it’s official, music is awesome and there is not NEARLY enough time or money to enjoy enough of it. This past weekend was Windfield and I missed it!! No Small Potatoes, John McCutcheon, Tom Chapin, Spontaneous Combustion, Cherish the Ladies, OR Tommy Emmanuel for me this year. *sigh* It’s a darn shame that Kansas is far away, and gas is expensive, and so are tickets. Then again, it’s not like I don’t have my fill of entertainment around here. I’ve come to realize just how prime of a location we have here at Goshen for concerts. Detroit is a bit of a drive, but manageable for a good show (aka Coldplay). And now Chicago is proving to be TOO good of a source of entertainment because Bruce Cockburn and Ben Folds both have concerts there! The same week!! Dang lack of an infinite supply of free concert tickets. So in the end as much as Bruce’s music is awesome I decided to spring for Ben Folds. YAY, another solid concert to look forward too!

Song of the week: Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. I found Iron And Wine’s recording of this song first but after finding the original find it hard to go back.

Well, not that I’ve become excessively politically aware or anything, but I’ve been reading BBC news a lot more recently and sometimes the articles I stumble across just make me think. For example the article about Bush asking for a bathroom break during the UN World summit. Come on man, can’t you plan ahead! Then the other day I found an article: FEMA Foible about how FEMA’s online application form for emergency relief only works for people with Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater, meaning people who use Macs, or Linux are out of luck (not to mention Windows users who’ve switch fully to Firefox). This also had me kinda ticked, why design a site that only works for some people?? It’s not THAT hard to make a site that works for different browsers!

Except that then I let myself cool down a bit. In reality, why am I getting so worked up about things like this. Granted, it’s fun to poke fun at Bush which is why so many satire sites picked up on this. But really we all know that Everybody Poops and the only reason I might care is because I have a personal beef with him? And about FEMA and their little website situation, I read some comments at This Is Broken that really made sense. This form originally was meant for internal use (where unfortunately they all use IE on PCs) and was only made public after Katrina to help people get the aid they need asap. And if you really think about it, right now FEMA has a LOT more pressing issues on it’s hands than updating it’s website. So maybe this is what I’m coming to… Yeah, it’s definitely fun to pick on other people’s slip-ups, but really, if It’s not a big deal, take it easy!