This Easter sucked for three reasons 1) Church 2) Burglary 3) Howard Stern.
Well, I need to qualify. Easter was 1) Exhausting and awkward 2) Angering and Disappointing and 3) Insulting to the constitution.
1) Church
The church service was really nice. For the first two hours. The remaining 2 hours, I wanted to leap from the choir loft and end my misery.
The service started at 11:30 at night. I didn't get home until 3:45 am. Yowza! The worst part is - the church doesn’t have pews. The priest though that pews were for lazy people, and had them all removed. People were expected to stand the whole time. Yipes.
2) Burglary - Lindsey call me this morning and asks me "You didn't happen to take the server home this weekend, did you?" Um, no. "Oh, crap. Then we were robbed."
Yup - someone kicked down the door to the office and made off with our server. Our entire student files, all of our class schedules - gone. The worst part is, the cops didn't take any prints or do anything other than fill out a report - the burglar is going to get off scot-free on this one. Grrrr!
We reported the server stolen to Dell, so if anyone calls Dell looking for help setting the thing up, Dell will call the cops. Other than that, there's nothing to do but sit on our thumbs and wait for a new server.
Here's the good side:
1) the burglary happened when there were no teachers or students in the building, so no one got hurt. The other office hat was robbed is leased by a woman who always brings her baby to work with her. They weren't in the building either, thank goodness.
2) Insurance will cover the server. We should get a new one within a week, if all goes well.
3) We have time to vacuum the office.
Here's the poopy side:
1) We are so dependent on our server that there's not much we can get done without it.
2) The burglar totally obliterated the door. I'll be picking wood shards out of the carpet for a while.
3) Someone's going to get away with stealing a $5000 server.
3) Howard Stern Howard has been dropped by Clear Channel permanently after receiving nearly 500K in fines from the FCC. The charges stem from his usual perverted radio show which (I admit) is not everyone's cup of tea. However, I think that his firs amendment rights have been violated. Because the FCC does not like what Stern has to say (he is no more graphic than cable tv or the evening news, in my opinion) they have forced him off the air. Even if I find Stern's material objectionable, I don't think he should be pulled from the air simply because I don't like what he has to say. Sounds like fascist censorship to me.
What do you think? At what point does the FCC move from radio watchdog to legislator of morality? And is that a good thing or a bad thing?