I’m packing and working, so it’ll be hard to post anything this week; however, I have a few minutes before I absolutely have to start getting ready for work. Cameron has moved some stuff over to the new place and has spent his first two nights over there on an air mattress. I stopped by yesterday to drop off a small TV and the refurbished Tivo we purchased and got to meet our downstairs neighbors. They were both very nice and seem very easy going.

The big surprise was there was a gift waiting me. Cameron somehow had spent the past few months (since I was diagnosed with lymphoma) painting for me. Let me explain. The painting has to be 6 feet x 4 feet. It’s HUGE! And it was never in his apartment. I have no idea where he worked on it or how he got it over to the apartment yesterday since I had the car. It’s beautiful and will post a picture as soon as I get some taken.

Other thoughts:

The newest tropical storm (now a hurricane) is named Gustav. That’s the name of my Jetta! (I didn’t say there were deep thoughts.)

I’m wondering how long it will take the Obama campaign to quote Ted Kennedy last night. Kennedy’s speech was marvelous in its tone, content and delivery and really got the crowd going when he said, “Yes, we will!”. Sounds like a great thing to put on an Obama/Biden t-shirt.

Listening to: “Double Take” - Blondie

I got the text message, but it was from CNN.

Jeers to them for breaking the story of Obama’s VP choice before the campaign had made its announcement to their supports simply to be first. Sure, it’s their job, but we were having fun waiting for a text message. 

“Boo!” I say. “Booooo!”

Listening to: “You Are, You Are” - Gary Numan

I tend to be liberal in my thinking. No, really. I’m all for energy policy reform with renewable power sources because modern windmills are so cool to look at when driving by in your car. I guess the term nowadays is ‘progressive’ as liberal has been turned into a dirty word somehow, yet the conservatives that helped make the word synonymous with being unpatriotic have themselves no problems with naughty language. Take this excerpt from a piece of hate mail that Daily Kos got (you can read the entire thing here):

I’d like to personally kick the shit out of you. But since you’re probably in New York or Los Angeles, that’s not going to happen. I’ve been to Los Angeles. What a shithole. I’d like to get some good pizza in NY, but not at the risk of running across assholes like anyone on the New York Times, Madonna, David Letterman, or any other cocksucking liberal.

I have one huge problem with this well-thought-out debate on whether Obama as President would open the gates to terrorist attacks:

There is nothing wrong with cocksucking!

Cocksucking is a glorious and respected past time and should never used in a way that would make someone think the cocksucker is some sort of horrible, hairy monster salivating at the very thought of mouthing cock. The funny thing is this guy — c’mon, it has to be a guy. No woman I know would miss the chance of running into Madonna in NY and thumping her on the head for making it that much harder to live up to sexual expectations — should be exalting the act of cocksucking because, well, he’s a guy. If it popped up in his political jargon then you know he’s thinking about it. He’s actively imagining scenarios where he drunkenly picks up some girl but is not able to erect the “Burj Dubai” or is soliciting someone in an airport bathroom stall hoping to sting the back of a throat.

In other words, leave cocksuckers alone because you know you want ‘em. Besides, there is nothing wrong with them some mouthwash and an antibiotic can’t cure.

Listening to: “Sensation” - Bryan Ferry

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