Monday morning I woke up with a fever of 100.4 and haven’t really shaken off the slight fever feeling since, so my reading of blogs has been sporadic at best. I could be a bitch and say none of you wrote anything worth my notice, but it’d be an assoholic lie. Instead, I will entertain/bore you with some random things that happened this week when I wasn’t lying on the couch soaked in my own man sweat.

The big thing for me was the announcement that the Democratic Party has taken John Edwards and Barack Obama’s pledge of not taking donations from lobbyists to heart and made a sweeping change for the entire party. What that means — in theory — is that the only group that the Democratic Party has to now answer to is “We, The People”. This kind of integrity is reason I am a fan of both Edwards and Obama.

You may have noticed the blog being streamlined. I had some complaints about loading time and decided to get rid of most of the clutter. Now if I can just get my host to streamline their side.

I know Twitter is free and it can be fun, but it’s frequent downtime is certainly a fun sucker. Scott-O-Rama asked several of us to check out Plurk. It has a cool interface and a verb drop down menu that is fun. Check it out and see if you like.

“The Venture Bros.” season premiere party I held Sunday night was a lot of fun. It just sucked the the Mountain Time Zone gets screwed by receiving the Pacific feed, so while everyone else got to see the show at 11:30 (or 10:30 Central), we had to wait until 12:30. It was worth it though. I watched the episode again the other night and found a slew of funny stuff that was missed the first time because everyone was laughing/falling asleep.

And a final thought: they say drinking caffeine stunts your growth. I grew up Mormon and wasn’t allowed to consume caffeine. So why am I only 5′ 6-1/2″?

Listening to: “Dirty World” - Traveling Wilburys