Archive for January, 2009

Remember that we won

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

(Please cut and paste this if it will be useful elsewhere.)
Dear recently elected Democratic Federal Office Holder:
How’s it going?  Have you caught your breath?  I know elections are chaotic things–I’ve only worked on a few, and they take a lot out of me.  I can only imagine what it’s like to have to actually run.  [...]

I need a passport, part 3

Friday, January 16th, 2009

So surprisingly, a city council in Mississippi has enough awareness of the Constitution to realize that an attempted ban on people wearing sagging pants in public probably wouldn’t pass muster, and failed it by a 4-2 vote.  Now, normally, I would talk about the fact that such a proposal managed to get 33% of the [...]

Survey says…

Friday, January 9th, 2009

…I get to keep my thumb, without surgery.  At least, that’s the thought.  If the symptoms haven’t completely gone away in a week, I go back to check, but it’s looking good at the moment.

The Day After The Day

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

I fell asleep with the lights on, and woke up a couple times during the night to check for angry red streaks.  None of those.  But when I finally fully woke up, I took another look at my thumb.
My thumb, which had just “normal trauma,” some slight sprain or something when I went to bed, [...]

This has been a day.

Monday, January 5th, 2009

So.
We’re moving. To Ohio. The Artist is already there, I’m going at the end of January. More on this later.
This involves lots of packing. I have done most of the packing. I have gotten stuff out of the house. I’m pretty much finished, which is good, since the rental [...]

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