Maine FTW!

GUYS GUYS GUYS! How is it that Maine legalized same-sex marriage last week and I didn't know about it until today? Yay Maine! :) I like to think it hasn't popped up on my f-list or wherever because it's getting so commonplace that it's no longer news, but with only 5/50 states down so far, I think we have a ways to go until that happens. Still. Yay for another state! I'd heard that Maine was the probably the next up, but didn't realize it was so close to happening. And it looks like New Hampshire will probably be next, and quite soon...? Things are definitely moving down there; makes me happy... it's nice to have all this good news after Prop 8.

My vaguely planned post-Prop 8-inspired "gay marriage is legalized in NY and Keith and Anderson get married" fic is starting to get closer and closer to reality... when I wrote the little bit that i have so far (like, half a page if that) I just went with the idea that it was sometime in the nearish future and Prop 8 had been repealed and NY was about to possibly legalize same-sex marriage, but I made no mention of other states... now I have 3 new ones to include! :) Assuming I ever write it, ehehe. It was a pretty sappy and silly idea anyway, more a reaction to Prop 8 than anything. Was going to be pretty OOC, too, probably. -_-

EDIT: ...people fail at life. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iq4Y_woQg4NdYDDDLdXJCDpaRnVgD981L1SG1 So looks like the new law may be held up for awhile because of stupid people trying to challenge it. *sigh* Let's hope they don't succeed... in the meantime, it looks like it'll be awhile before anyone will be getting married under it. :( Still, at least they got it passed into law.

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Oooooh... check this out!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/business.travel/05/04/airplane.wifi/index.html

Evidently a number of American airlines are starting to offer Wi-Fi on domestic flights! o.o That is so cool! They're going to start testing it on trans-Atlantic flights by the end of the year. I wonder how long it'll take for other airlines to start doing this? Like Air Canada? Like, before September so I have it on my flight home? ;) Okay, that's not exactly realistic. But I hope it's successful so that Canadian and other international airlines start doing it too... they're charging a small fee for it ($9.95 for flights under 3 hours, $12.95 for flights over that, and a flat rate of $7.95 for handheld devices on all flights. And yes I consider those reasonably cheap fees, considering that the Internet cafes I've seen in Australia so far are upwards of $2/half hour. ^^ And either way.. fuck it, $13 for wireless on a plane? I'd pay it in a heartbeat). I'm rather amused by the article suggesting those prices are too high and may hurt them, considering that I suspect people will still shell out the money (I mean hell, you've spent over $1000 on a ticket, is $13 really going to phase you...?), but either way I hope they can make it work and that the price doesn't put people off.

Anyway. GOD how amazing would this be? 15 hour flight going by, like that. :) Pity I won't have it on my return flight...

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Okay, more serious post... and yeah I know, I'm posting a ton these days. Sorry to be spamming ya'll like this. It's partly the general lack of anything else to do since I'm not working and am really just bumming around Melbourne doing not much at all. ^^

Anyway, Mom called me yesterday to tell me that the house in N. Van was broken into while they were up on the island. Only a few things taken (Mom's laptop, which was broken anyway, her jewelry box (and she's not even sure what's in there... still, too bad), and a digital video camera that Dad was borrowing from his movie producer friend (hopefully the guy has insurance, cuz it was probably worth quite a bit...). I'm mostly just relieved that a. there's really not much of worth TO steal in that house anymore, and b. it wasn't burnt down or anything. o.o That was my first worry when she said "bad news - the house in North Van..." me, mentally: 'oh god it's burnt down', "...was broken into last night." "Oh. Okay. That's not so bad." Heh. But yeah, fire's always been the biggest worry there, since it would be... beyond a catastrophe, I can't even express it. Although a lot of Dad's art has moved up to the island, he's still got a ton of it in that house and would lose a good 50% of his life's work. I just.. can't even. o.o (basement did flood a bit once, that was fun - we were running around frantically trying to put wooden planks under the paintings to prevent any damage).

Upshot of all this is, they're planning to give up the place and get a storage compartment (for the art) and a 1-room apartment (to crash in while in town) as soon as possible. Which yeah, they've said over and over again the last few years, and they actually seemed pretty serious about it a few monthes ago (I almost believed them that time! But it didn't happen, as usual...), but this time I think it's actually going to happen. For real. I'm pretty sure I believe them this time. ^^ And yeah, they're right... that place isn't very secure, and there's still that fear of fire. And okay, an apartment can be broken into and a storage place burn down, but... that place is falling down around our ears. *sigh* Was a matter of time, really. And I know they're pretty shaken up and creeped out over knowing that someone was in our house. Still, I'm mostly just rather impressed that it's taken 20+ years for it to happen... I suspect I'd be more shaken if I were there, but being so far away I'm more just relieved that it was nothing truly serious (Mom leaving a message on my voicemail saying "Call me back. I have some news." in a serious sounding voice just freaked me out... "omg someone's died!" okay yes, I'm paranoid).

But yeah... I'm trying not to be depressed over leaving that house, but it's hard. I know we haven't really lived there in 4 years, but... well, realistically we have spent at last a couple days of each week there since getting the house on Bowen, other than my being in Ontario for a year. And it may be a dumpy old shack in the woods, but dammit it's my dumpy old shack in the woods and it's where I grew up. :( And hey, it was in The X-Files! Its finest hour. :) (and okay, in Men in Trees for 2 years... but The X-Files is cooler). Mostly I just hate being here while it's happening, and knowing that if they go ahead with this and it's all finished by the time I get home, then I'm never going to see the inside of that house again. And every time I think that I burst into tears, which is silly but... fuck, I'm doing it again. ^^; I made Mom promise to tell me before she throws anything of mine out, but even still... I hate hate not being there while they're boxing up all my stuff. In part because there's a lot of stuff in that room that they make thing is really stupid and worthless but I'm overly nostalgic and sentimental and I don't want to get rid of it. Course, then all that crap will just go into storage and rot for eternity... which sucks, and I liked having that room to store all that nostalgic shit from my childhood and teenaged years. Though hell, it'd probably be healthy to get rid of a lot of it... I just can't let go. *sigh*

Okay, am holding in tears this time, go me. ^^ Just gotta... not think about it. And gotta make sure they take pictures as they're packing up and moving so I can pretend I'm there. Fuck. :(

*uses Dean sadface icon, for the hell of it*