Monday, November 03, 2008

terribly early in the morning

Meet Charles Alexander

I “met” Charles via Grace, and she’s right, watching this video will make you cry, or at the very least, tear up.  Charles volunteered for the Obama campaign after his wife passed away.  It was a good way to keep his mind busy and help his candidate at the same time.  Watch the video - it will make you feel warm and fuzzy about voting (if you’re an Obama supporter - if you’re a McCain supporter…why???  John McCain of 2008 is not the John McCain of 2000, the relatively sane McCain), or will make you feel guilty if you’re not voting.  Mom & Dad, ask Glenn if he voted.  If he didn’t, make him feel ashamed of himself.  Of course, it’s easy for a middle class, straight, white guy to think that voting is no big deal because his life hasn’t changed based on votes - he’d feel differently if he was poor or gay or female or any color other than white.  Well, until now - look at the new home construction industry, not so healthy, is it?  If we’d had a different president, who didn’t invade Iraq and didn’t spend $12 billion/month in Iraq, maybe people would still be flooding into Las Vegas, buying up homes left & right, meaning new homes needing to be built left & right, and all those homes would all need brand spankin’ new plumbing.  Instead, record numbers of your neighbors are facing foreclosure.  Your vote counts, don’t waste it.  Oops, side-tracked, watch Charles Alexander.

the wee hours

Did you fall back, didja, didja?

I really like the time change.  The days feel so long for a little while, kind of like when you make your clocks five or ten minutes later than the real time…and it fools you for a couple of days, at least right when you wake up.  Since the pool motors were broken this summer and we couldn’t use the pool, I had no use for the summer.  It’s just hot sweaty weather that uses lots of air conditioning.  There’s nothing fun about it, so I’m glad it’s over now.  The only thing I don’t like about the weather change is needing a jacket to take the little dogs outside, but other than that, the cool weather is a relief.  I’d also like one day of snow this year.  Last year, we were supposed to have snow showers one night, but all I saw were about ten snowflakes in the air when I went to take the trash out.  I hardly consider that worth the title of “snow shower”.

Wow, it’s day two of NaBloPoMo and I’ve already run out of things to say.  Maybe it’s just the pressure of waiting for the election to be over and worrying that it’s going to be stolen…again.  We should be replacing Al Gore, after his eighth year of the presidency.  Of course, if we were, so very many other things would be different.  I feel sorry for Al - I wonder if he still goes to bed at night, wondering what would have happened if the Supreme Court hadn’t decided the election?  That would really suck.  I’m glad he’s made lemonade out of the BUSHel of lemons he was stuck with.  It took him a little while though, didn’t it?

Saturday, November 01, 2008

evening

Happy 1st Day of National Blog Posting Month (and belated day o’ ghouls)

We met this one in line at the Centennial Hills Target (I’m being extra descriptive, just in case she’s trying to do a search for herself) - she was headless at the time, so we followed her to her truck, and asked her to put her head on.  Then, trying to stay true to herself, as a biker chick troll, she flipped me off.  Leigh-Ann took another picture using the troll’s phone, and then off we went on our separate ways, never to meet again…probably.  Oh, and I think, but am not positive, that she thought we were checking out her ass.  Neither one of us completely understood what she said, but we were already on our way back to our car by then, so we just “UH UH, no wayed” and went to Taco Bell to try the new volcano taco.  Meh, the regular tacos with hot sauce are better.  The new triple berries & creme drink, however, was delicious.  A delicious dinner (with a leftover burrito yet) for under eight bucks.  Halloween sure is exciting around here.