I keep leftovers longer than that
News, Political, Guns ·Tuesday September 9, 2008 @ 23:52 EDT (link)
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the
time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he
logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate
was actually in session and working. After 143 days of work experience,
Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free
World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
143 days. I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.
— Columnist Cheri Jacobus
Cost of living, Q3 2008: Tennessee was lowest, West Virginia #21, Washington #36, and California came in dead last (#50, DC not included). Site didn't include details about unemployment rates, income means and standard deviations, or education levels.
20080831: Passport arrived in mail; good thing I didn't put a rush on it; the lady at the King County court said it probably wouldn't have arrived any faster, it cost more, and we managed to make do without it.
20080901: Hung around the house, put stuff away, did laundry, watched Hook on TV.
20080902: Back to work; catching up on emails (half a day, easily), trying to get a working build, the usual ramp-up stuff after a break. Mowed the lawn.
20080904: Twit time! WA 432 XVE, tan-colored Toyota 4Runner SUV, cut off on WA-520 going home (1805).
20080905: Various Galco holsters arrived in the mail: EMP concealed carry (Royal Guard RG212) and open carry (Cop Slide CSL 212B), and Glock open carry (CSL 224B). The fit well and are comfortable. Definitely need the thick carry belt I got from the gun show (nice guy that makes them and can do adjustments on-site); a regular belt wouldn't hold up.
20080909: Early am: working on Myth box games: mouse was non-functioning, but turned out to be wireless sync (needed to press the button on the receiver which makes it go into Cylon scanning mode, then the button on the bottom of the mouse to make it sync up). Then everything else was fine; ZSNES really needs a mouse, there are things that can't be set with a keyboard. Re-configured the controller, and all was good; NEStopia was still fine. Rebooted once with no sound, though, but alsamixer fixed that up. Evening: cleaned Glock; Honey's math book arrived from Amazon (already got the telephone interface for my Olympus digital recorder (TP-7), extra Nikon D300 battery (EN-EL3e; it won't take the same ones as the D100 since the new batteries provide a remaining charge readout, although the D100 can use the new ones; pretty silly, it should take the old ones and just not provide new functionality), and some widescreen DVDs).
Books finished: Asterix at the Olympic Games, Sons of Fortune.DVDs finished: Ocean's Twelve, The Peacemaker, The Recruit, Blue Planet: Seas of Life, Battlestar Galactica: Season One.
