There’s probably not many out there who care, but you anyone be upset if I start using Facebook exclusively and change myjaxon.com to a placeholder page so I can keep the things I do use it for?

Anyway, it’s happening again.  Jesse found out today that there’s going to be a company wide paycut at his job and that’s going to put him under what he was hired at.  We’re already barely squeeking by on what he’s making, so this paycut is going to impact us hard.  How hard you’re asking…we’re going to have to move again.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we won’t have to, but Jesse is out hunting again.  There have been rumors of paycuts all week, so he had done a primarliy search earlier and found diddly squat in our area.  This doesn’t bode well for our mortgage, that’s for sure.

On a funny note, for giggles I ran a search for Linux jobs at the Washington Post and there were quite a few jobs listed.  We could end up moving BACK to the Metro DC area.  I wouldn’t be completely opposed to that area since I have some connections out there and I might be able to get back into the legal field and work from home at the same time.  There’s no way I would go back to doing what I was doing (working 70 hours a week), but I have a few more options out there than here.

In any case, I don’t want to move.  I like my house and we’re settled.  So keep your fingers crossed that Jesse can find something in this area and we won’t have to move.

Whether you’re pro-life or pro-choice, I don’t care, but I do use birth control and if that right was to be taken away from me, I don’t know what I would do. We can’t afford to have another child right now and emotionally, neither of us are ready for another one. However, if birth control were to become illegal, that choice would be taken away from me. Condoms are fine and dandy, but they’re not reliable. I want to be sure that when/if I have another child, that’s its our choice. That it wasn’t an “OOPS” and then we have to deal with it.

Abortion at Saddleback Forum: If Life Begins at Conception, What About Contraception? by RHRealityCheck

The Bush Administration is now on record planning to equate contraception with abortion, for the purpose of allowing health care workers to deny patients access to contraception. It is clear the Bush Administration believes that contraception is abortion.

The plight of the lame duck by the Los Angels Times

The White House recently proposed a radical change to the Endangered Species Act that would allow government agencies to bypass a heretofore mandatory scientific review process that evaluates the impact of their actions. The Department of Health and Human Services drafted a new rule that could redefine abortion to include some forms of contraception and allow doctors and pharmacists to deny them to women as they see fit.

Don’t Let Bush Administration Redefine Pregnancy by the Connecticut Courant

But a recent proposal at the federal Department of Health and Human Services threatens to muddy all that. Ostensibly, the proposal seeks to protect health care workers who, for religious or moral reasons, don’t want to participate in abortions. The proposal suggests that for the purposes of health care workers, pregnancy begins when the sperm and the egg are joined, at the act of sex — something with which august bodies such as the American Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the British Medical Association disagree. Those groups and others say pregnancy begins when the fertilized egg implants itself into the uterine wall — a few days later that the Bush administration would have it.

New proposal could affect access to birth control WELLNESS by the Fredricksburg Free-Lance Star

The controversy arises because of the draft’s definition of abortion. To quote the proposal, abortion would be redefined as “any of the various procedures–including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action–that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.

Clinton swears to fight the “insulting” plan of abortion by Cayanmama

Sen. Hillary Clinton commented on the Bush administration’s plan for defining some of the very widely used methods of contraception as “gratuitous, unnecessary insult” to the women.

The former Democratic presidential candidate teamed up with family planning groups in condemning the proposals that define abortion and actually include contraception methods like intrauterine devices and birth control pills. It would cut off federal funds to hospitals and states where medical providers are compelled to offer contraception and legal abortion to women.

It seems unbelievable, but the Bush Administration is quietly trying to redefine “abortion” to include birth control. The Houston Chronicle says this could wipe out dozens of state laws that protect women’s reproductive freedom and protect rape victims. And this proposed “rule change” doesn’t need congressional approval.

I just signed a message to Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, whose department is considering this rule change, telling him: “Contraception is NOT abortion.” Can you add your voice to this cause? Click here to sign the message.

Thanks!

George Carlin, a comedian famed equally for his bawdy routines about drugs and obscenities and for his ability to render absurd the most commonplace of items in modern life, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital yesterday, a spokesman said. He was 71. – The Boston Globe

Since I’ve found this, I’ve been reassessing my social networks. Originally, the only reason I even signed up for mySpace was to keep in touch with a few friends who used it exclusively and I kinda got sucked in, but not really in a good way. You see, I don’t run any program by Microsoft on my computer. I’m strictly a Linux girl and mySpace doesn’t work well with Linux. Oh, I can still do everything, but the blog post editor doesn’t work (I can only use the basic editor) and I have to upload photos one at a time and that can take awhile and oftentimes crashes Firefox on me.

On Facebook, everything works like it should. I can upload multiple photos at a time, I can share links from all of my blogs (Literary Escapism and Open Source Cook) and I don’t have to retype or copy them into mySpace. Plus, Facebook is just cleaner. I can add a bunch of different apps, but it doesn’t change the general layout or take forever to load.

So I’ve made the decision to junk mySpace. I’ll still keep the site up and active, but I’m not going to add any more posts, pictures, or anything else. I need to start reorganizing my time and trying to keep three different blogging sites is taking up too much time. If you want to stay current with me, then stick around. If you want to find me on Facebook, here I am.

In other things, I was watching the Colbert Report this afternoon and I saw them talking about an article from the BBC. They are talking about how a study found that computer keyboards can actually be dirtier than someone’s toilet.

Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office’s toilet seats.

Sadly, I can actually believe it too. I know my old keyboards could be quite…interesting.

I know it’s probably a big mistake, but I started up a blog for Open Source Cook.  I already had the URL address, so that wasn’t stopping me and it’s just a matter of putting up any recipes here instead of bogging down my own blog.  There are times when I’ll get in a zone and do nothing but blog about food or books, so this should help prevent that at myJaxon.

So, the blog is all set up in WordPress and of course I’ve been playing with it all day.  I still need to come up with a different picture for the header, but it works for now.  If you’re curious, check it out.

Here’s the deal. You pick a charity and donate some money. I don’t care how much. Send me an email with a transaction number, showing that you gave to disaster relief (even just a buck), and I’ll enter you in a drawing for $200 worth of free books. (Note: the prize has gone up. Alessia Brio is adding $50 to the pot.

The relief support for the victims of this horrible natural disaster are in desperate need of donations. There are a bunch of different places you can donate, so it’s pretty much up to you where you want to go. I’ll even make it easy for you. Here is a list of private organizations that are currently working in Myanmar and helping to deal with the after effects of Cyclone Nargis.

• CARE
• Church World Service
• Direct Relief International
• Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
• Global Giving
• Myanmar Red Cross
• Save the Children
• UNICEF
• Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
• World Vision

Now you don’t have any excuses to make a donation. I’ve linked up each name to their donations site, so all you have to do is spend 2 minutes and click on a link. I’ve already made my donation to CARE (sorry babe, but it’s a worthy cause and they need it more than we do right now), now it’s your turn.

Dear Jackie,

Thank you for your generous donation. Your gift to CARE will
help provide emergency relief to thousands of survivors of
Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.

Payment Information:
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Transaction ID: 17011891
Date: May 8, 2008
Time: 12:41pm (ET)
Payment Amount: $10.00
Campaign: Donate Online Now – CARE USA
Name: Jackie Morgan

Click here to check it out now.