MindBloggingTypos: September 2008

To quote the Jesus...

"It's Bush league psyche out stuff. Laughable, man!"

He was, of course, talking about Walter not rolling on Saturday's. But he could have been talking about McCain and the debate. It's on apparently. I'll be tuning in to watch in 45 minutes or so.

Maybe the plan was really to bump the VP debates. And I think that would have been a mistake for McCain. Obama is going to clobber him. But in the VP debate, Palin's performance will most likely make McCain look good by comparison.

Oh, by the way, not sure if you saw the ads out this morning on the WSJ website and other places. Somebody prematurely placed ads saying McCain won the debate hands down - BEFORE it was even announced that he would show up.

But did you see the Palin internview with Katie Couric?

Reminds me of this classic...

A bit of catching up...

So I didn't say anything about Labor Day, really. Lauren and Paul came up with Hector.

He's the cutest puppy I know these days.

I had a barbecue catastrophe. And as much as I hate the big W, I was able to buy replacement burners and MacGyver (MacGruber?) them in to the grill and we were able to cook.

And I also picked up a $5 clearance impulse buy. A slip-n'-slide. And it was so worth it! I wish we'd gotten two and strung them together. It was like 160 degrees out and it was a great way to cool off. And it was a hoot.

I think I was working when they were playing poker.

The ribs were awesome. In fact, all of the food was awesome over the entire weekend. We moved the grill down to the deck from the upstairs patio. This let us all hang out in the same place. And it also let's me cook with gas - this gave us the best vegetables I've made in as long as I can remember. You really need gas for a wok.

Then there was this weekend. Lauren and Paul came up again. And we did pretty much the same things, only we didn't set up the slip-n'-slide. And if all goes well, they will be living nearby before too long. They are pre-approved on a loan and there are a lot of options to chose from up here.

Saturday was a somber anniversary - a year since Rachel's accident. I got her a card and a carrot cake with an upside down toy car on it. I couldn't find and don't know how to make an upside down cake, or I would have.

I had to work most of the weekend. The end is finally in sight on this project. It will be live on 9/23, and we should be done a few days before that.

Here's what it looked like on my whiteboard when we first started...

And here's what the main application looks like now...

And that's just the main application. A lot of those little boxes have a lot more little boxes inside of it. The nice thing for me is that there is enough functionality there now that it actually sounds really cool. And that is giving me some additional motivation.

That's it for now.

And then I saw this...

...and I didn't feel so bad.

Also, let's see how compassionate the conservatives are when Ike rolls in to town and everyone isn't watching a convention.

OK, this is weird...

...but is seems to me that John McCain is incapable of raising his arms over his head. Has anybody else noticed this? Like during his whole speech, his hands were seldom visible. And they never went over his shoulder.

Not a big deal, it's just curious, you know?

Also, I want to add that in 2000, he was my favorite Republican. But man, he's lost me since then. And it is shocking to me that the Republicans rely on a frightened and misinformed public to paint themselves as the party of change. They have had control of all three branches of our government for the better part of 8 years and are largely responsible for the deplorable state our country is in today. And that if they repeat a lie often enough, it will become true.

John Bush...I mean John McCain a reformer? He was one of the Keating 5. He says Obama will raise taxes, and that is true - but only on people making more than $250,000 per year. Most Americans will receive a tax reduction. The reality is we have had 8 years of the kinds of tax cuts on working Americans he talks about and it is killing us. Trickle down was never a good idea. And it never worked. Obama's Plan is progressinve, McCain's is regressive. I'm pulling this out of my butt, it's from the Tax Policy Center.

And he can talk all he wants about "empower(ing) parents with choice" in schools, it's still vouchers. And it's still privatization. And privatization benefits those who win the big contracts - like with prisons and the Iraq War.

Also, It's funny how a guy who is never going to win the coasts talks up off-shore drilling. I guess now that Jeb is out of office in Florida. I'm willing to consider off shore drilling AFTER we explore alternative energy sources. But the alternative energy sources need to come first.

There's more, but that's all I've got tonight.