Home Again, Jiggety-Jig. A week in the Bahamas was nice, but I had enjoyed Curacao, Belize, and Cozumel much, much more. Nothing horrendously wrong in Nassau, but nothing overwhelmingly nice about it either. Erci wanted to declare a few extra pounds of body fat at customs because we ate pretty well most of the time […]
We got out of Washington National Airport just fine on Saturday, transferred in Charlotte flawlessly (as usual) and landed in Nassau, Bahamas with no problems. This time US Air did not lose any luggage and we were able to get to our hotel, the Wyndham Resort Nassau with no problems. Word of advice, don’t arrive […]
Nextel has finally pissed me off. They are apparently gradually replacing their towers and connectivity in favor of Sprint PCS connectivity. Gradually my reception in areas I live, work, and play is getting worse and worse with Nextel. I am very sad by this, because they are about the only mobile phone company that apparently […]
A friend posted this video on her live journal, and it is a really cool idea. I dug a little deeper and discovered that there is a world peace movement based on one to one connections between people; kind of like Soka Gakkai Buddhism. FreeHugsCampaign.org If nothing else it will make you smile to watch […]
Virginia holds elections every year. Typically federal offices are done on even years just like the rest of the country; but state office elections are held on odd years. In 2007 there will be re-elections for all the House of Delegates seats and all the State Senator seats.
Thanks Karen, for sending me this incredible video. I am laughing so hard my orange juice shot out my nose! “Private prayer meetings” indeed.
In protest over the bigotry of the Marshall/Newman amendment to Virginia’s constitution, and in support of all our gay and lesbian friends, Erci and I have decided to stop calling each other husband and wife. Henceforth we shall call each other domestic partner instead, and we shall introduce each other to people we meet as […]
Just got back from a very long day working as an Elections Officer at Mullen Precinct in Prince William County, Virginia. We started preparing the voting place at 5:00 am and finally called in our statement of results at around 10:00 pm. We had 1063 registered voters cast their ballots, and one provisional voter. In […]
Josh Marshall says it quite succinctly on Talking Points Memo: Only one party has a nationwide campaign to deliver millions of intentionally-harassing calls disguised to appear that they’re from the opposite party. That party is the Republican party. And the calls are funded by the NRCC — the House GOP election committee. It’s the party […]
This last weekend before the election we should all be getting voters to commit to going to the polls or voting absentee, and I certainly have been doing that and will continue, but only after a short break from politics. My wife and I are sporadically celebrating 14 years of adventure together (yes, sweetheart, I […]
