August 11, 2008

Really???

I am not a big fan of Obama's, but when the best that McCain can come up with is "He's too popular" there is something seriously wrong with McCain's campaign. Watch the ad below and tell me it's not the saddest thing you have ever seen...

Alright already - I'm getting off your freaking lawn, old man!

(Oh, and that tax increase...it doesn't kick in until you make $200K per year, but then again, McCain has already admitted he doesn't understand economics, so it's okay. As Barbie says, "Math is hard!")

(Oh, oh! And, as go the hot girls, so go I)

Thank god we are finally having the opportunity to have a reasonable campaign that is focused on the issues, rather than personal attacks delivered by an adulterer who reverses his positions as s politically convenient (Really? Torture is good now?). (I apologize once again for lowering myself to the usual level of discourse in our great nation...at least I am wearing a flag pin as I do it, though I will not say where).

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August 2, 2008

So Good, I May Watch It Twice

I cannot recommend highly enough the movie "Once".

I may even have to buy the soundtrack.

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July 15, 2008

Relocation

I think I failed to mention this to just about anyone, but I have moved. I suppose that if pressed I might tell you where, but I doubt it will come to that.

The plan was, in theory, to move out of my awesome dilapidated mansion into something more practical. The dilapidated mansion was really too big for one person and cost the GDP of a small nation to heat in the winter. So a new house was selected that was smaller (in square footage, though still too big for one person) and, most importantly...air conditioned. I was more than willing to make a deal with the devil and even out my incredibly high winter bills and very small summer bills for medium bills all year round and 70 degree temperatures throughout the year.

In practice I appear to have moved into one of those boxes that the Japanese put Alec Guinness into "Bridge over the River Kwai". The temperature outside right now is about 70 degrees, while inside the house it is...*checks thermostat*...85. The temperature has actually gone up a degree since I got home and things outside cooled off.

So now I am in a smaller home, which is hotter, and all of my books, while shelved, are not alphabetized and it's driving me mad. Hopefully things will improve tomorrow when the landlord comes over to fix the AC.

For those of you who have asked, I will have more pictures of Holden soon...

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June 21, 2008

Perfect

If anyone would like mailing address info, please let me know.

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June 15, 2008

Everything and Nothing

Interesting in that there is nothing going on in my life, yet I stand on a tipping point where everything is about to change and I don't really know how.

Everything - in that within the next couple of days, I will - to the degree that someone who has never fathered child can - become a grandfather. I have to say that I have never been quite so touched by anything as hearing someone say "Oh, Ed is your father in law, no matter what...are you crazy?". It's another reminder that the families we make are the families that matter. Even if they don't end up the way we originally planned, they last forever. Jesse and James, Ashley and Kieran; these are my children and I see myself in them all the time, sometimes in ways I never would have expected. Strangely I only see the best of me in them, and I am thankful for that. I am not the best person in so many ways and it amazes me how great my kids are. If they can be eight times the person I have been...let's see...split by four...They will be twice the person I was, and they deserve nothing less.

Nothing - I had a whole nothing thing planned. but it mostly involved the amount of time I have been spending playing Pirates of the Caribbean Online, which is the least sucky MMPORPG I have ever played. So...I am thinking I will skip that ...

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