Some Observations

It rather sucks to have your computer crash. Such happened to me last Friday. What's worse, the hard-drive is gone-gone. Fried. They could get nothing off of it. So it goes.

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My mother is funny. The other day, she was about to email a recipe to me, and for whatever reason, it wouldn't go through to my normal email account, so I told her to send it to a different account: "pierce1301@yahoo.com".

Mom's response: "Ok, p-i-e-r-c-e-1-3..."

My response: "Mother, you should know how to spell "Pierce" by now.

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I'm not bothered by Obama's flip-flop on the public funding issue. Such things are often pointed to, and rightly so, as demonstrating a lack of integrity. It's important, for integrity's sake, to also allow for honest changes of mind.

I think this instance is one of those. The original reason Obama and the other candidates agreed to take public financing was so that they would not be so beholden to the lobbyists who have traditionally funded campaigns. Instead, public funding would make them beholden to the taxpayers, the people whose votes they're seeking.

The breakthrough, it seems to me, for the Obama campaign is that under the new campaign finance system he's found a way to raise money without selling himself to special interest groups. He's beholden to exactly the same people he would have been under public financing. So, he's free to accept money from supporters without betraying the original principles he was seeking to follow. I think, considering the way he's managed to raise money, that this is a rather excusable change of mind.

I, for one, am finding myself to be fairly conservative on the issue of campaign financing. I've rather enjoyed getting to donate to the campaign and have some small imput in the election.

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Massages are wonderful. I finally put out the money and got one. It's sort of amazing how much minor pain is gone that I hadn't really noticed too much had been there until it was gone. Looking back, I realize that I'd even stopped exercising because of those latent aches.

They're gone for now though. I think it's worth setting a little money aside to have a good massage a couple of times a year.

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Oh yeah, my mother is funny. I'd mentioned recently that I'd pretty much run out of t-shirts. I've only bought shirts in the last couple of years for my jobs, and now I have no casual clothes that are in decent shape.

So, Mom decided to look for me some tshirts when she and Kalyn went shopping one day. After searching in Old Navy a while, Mom pointed a shirt she naively thought I'd like to Kalyn.

It was evidently a simple shirt, just a couple of words: "World's Biggest Hot Dog."

Kalyn started laughing and explained to Mom the sexual connotations of the slogan.

Mom's response: "Well, maybe that would help him get a girlfriend."

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I have a way of getting stuck with strange responsibilities. Somehow, I managed to have to put together the story hour today for the library. I had a day, pretty much, to come up with something and put it together.

Luckily, I got some pretty good help from some friends and survived it.

I barely survived it though. It's sort of amazing how little I know about craft stuff. I had to by Tempora Paint, but I thought it was "temporal paint." I bought the wrong glue because I didn't realize that Elmer's glue wouldn't keep a pipecleaner attached to construction paper.

We were going to cover popcorn in the powdery tempora paint and then glue the colored popcorn to the paper to make flowers (mainly bluebonnets). I, for some reason, bought yellow as the second color. I got home and realized that buying yellow was pointless. The popcorn was already exactly that color of yellow.

I actually messed up the craft myself the first time, and my final try ended up being worse than most of the three-year-old's. I'll post a picture on here once I find the cord from my camera to the computer.

I did survive though.

Anyway, that's what I've noticed the last couple of days.