it keeps raining

The clouds have returned, after yesterday's blissful sun. For a time it rained while the sun was still shining, and I saw a big rainbow arcing over the far parking garage. All grey now, and flat.

I am so tired today, and will perhaps attempt some overtime in order to sock away just a little bit more money. Tonight Gene's having a drink-a-thon to celebrate the new beer, and I'll probably go to that. I will miss having someone around who makes their own, and I certainly miss the perfect college apartment sometimes.

Through some stroke of luck I just got rid off all the fiche maps that showed up in my bay. They were Colorado maps, so I don't have to deal with them. The company is finally cannibalizing the corpse of the TransAmerica office in Jersey, so the machines and resources are being shipped down here. Rather than their weird fiche boxes, I want one of the fancy workstations with two monitors. No chance of that though.

I daydream about a magical windfall that would allow us to quit our jobs and go to school or find better jobs and not to worry about the bills for a little while.

If the annoyances don't stop, I'm just going to quit using AIM/Trillian at all.

Metro is my home

I'm completely livid.

James told me that Metro got busted by some namby pamby Health Inspection for allowing smoking. I have no idea what they will do. Given the cost of rent, electricity and the fact that their business caters towards people who want to smoke inside... They can't afford to lose their customers and they will lose a lot of people.

God damn fucking invasive government! Fucking people who feel the need to impose their standards of culture and decide which ways I can enjoy or harm myself. I don't fucking need to be protected from myself, thank you very much. In a city where there are so many places to go, you can make a fucking choice as to where you want to drink your coffee and if you want to have a cigarette with it. The damned goverment doesn't need to be invading my private life by forbidding me to do a perfectly legal thing with my damned coffee. If you don't like it go somewhere the fuck else. You made your choice to be a nonsmoker. I made my choice to be a smoker.

Fucking cowardly craven bastards. Fuck you fuck you fuck you.

it's called free markets and choices

Thank you, you assholes who feel everyone must be healthy even if they choose not to be so!

I'd like to point out that you have a choice, and you're waving that fucking "right" of yours around like a damned flag when it isn't a right at all. It's a choice and you are taking mine away.

I'm so angry about the thought that a fine local business that has been so central my life for nearly a decade now might be forced to close because idiots think legal adults can't make choices of their own. I love Metro, with the uncomfortable chairs and the sometimes surly staff and the endless black coffee. I'm nearly in tears thinking about those worn brick walls where I have rested my head, the glasses and their heft in my hand. This is place where I have been with every person I have ever dated. I grew up in here. I broke up with people in here, I fell in love in here, I sometimes did my homework here, I wrote here, I spent time with my friends.

But you and your fucking self righteous health culture agenda want to force them out of business by not allowing adults to make their own god damned decisions. The first person who comes up to me and chirps about how great it is to not have the smoke around will get a broken bloody nose.

There are so many coffee shops where you can't smoke. Why do you have to take mine away?

no....

I just got off the phone with Gene and he informed me that Metro is non-smoking now.

FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING HEALTH NAZIS

Excuse me while I go scream.

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Austin Chronicle on the smoking ban

What bullshit. What have they accomplished? The Smoke Free Monday nights at local clubs have abyssmal turnout, and people are seriously deluding themselves if they think bars will just go nonsmoking. Who wants a bar full of those damned California non-smokers anyhow?

God I hope Halcyon can push the city council on a variance for coffee shops. I wonder if Doug knows about that. They certainly need it. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

This has made what was simply a dreary day into a downright crappy one. I think I'm off to drink beer and smoke my black little heart out with glee. I've also decided I won't be embarassed when people shoot me nasty looks for daring to smoke. I'll just put my cigarettes out on their shoes.