So, yesterday’s class was pretty good, and I think this will turn out to be worthwhile for me. Especially now that I know I don’t have to leave quite so early to get there. Didn’t really get a chance to peruse the whole election thing, except to see that, now that it looks like Obama can get to 2,025 delegates, the other campaign has decided that 2,209 is the real number (and they’re willing to stage a fight in August to try and pull their ‘nuclear’ option). Of course, the point now for them is to make sure McCain gets elected, so expect to see things get even more Rovian from them from here on out. They need to walk a bit if a fine line, I’d think, to torpedo the Obama candidacy while not shouldering the blame for a McCain presidency (go for the old, ‘Obama ran a terrible campaign’ chestnut).

Personally, I think it’s a little late for that. Maybe Clinton should just be the ‘Connecticut for Libermann’ Party candidate for President. But, hey, who knows? Maybe she’ll be a good soldier, and they can both spend the next month or two using the free primary media coverage showing the world what an incredibly horrible little person John McCain is. That would be the mature thing to do, both for Clinton and her supporters (many of whom seem to be having what Frank Zappa called a ‘petulant frenzy’).

So, we’ll see what my Senator does from here on out. She’s got that job for life unless she turns off every Democrat in the state, and she has a good chance to become an upper mucky-muck in the Senate – maybe even Majority leader. Plus I hear if she acts like a grown up, the Obama campaign will pay off her campaign debt (and since she’s loaned her campaign a lot of her and Bill’s money, that has to look like a pretty good deal).

Anyway, the Chat Room is open for Maron on AAR this afternoon. I won’t be around, but that’s not much of a loss.

Have a good one.

So, today begins the first of three days of ‘advanced’ ColdFusion training (the web application development platform; I won’t be carrying out any nuclear reactions at room temperature) at Cornell, for which I have to drive an hour and a half (each way). Ordinarily, I’d enjoy going down to Ithaca, since it’s quite a beautiful area (‘Ithaca is gorges’ as the bumper stickers say), but this means I have to leave the house by 6:30 AM for the next three days, only to go and sit for eight hours in a classroom (give or take; I guess we get an hour for lunch, so I can get up and then go sit someplace else for a while) and see if they can teach me more formally than I’ve managed to figure out on my own (which I certainly hope is the case).

Hopefully I can at least find a podcast of Maron yesterday to listen to on the way.

As everybody knows, Maron makes an unexpected return to Air America today in the 3 – 6 PM Eastern time slot. So, I’ve opened up the MS Chat Room for anybody who’d like to chat during the show. It’s open now, and will basically stay open all week for the Wed and Fri shows, too.

I won’t get a chance to listen, unfortunately, because I’m rarely able to stream at work, and I have to scurry to get the boys out to the park after work, because Fritz has his first night of school at 7:00. He’s already smarter than I am (no great feat, admittedly), so we’ll see what they can teach him.

Happy fifth of May. You know, turns out gas in Kingston is about $1.18 a liter. That works out to about $4.50 a gallon when you figure in the fact that the Canadian Loonie is worth $1.02 US (used to be you got a break when you went up there; not anymore – thanks Dubya). So, I guess I should feel grateful that gas here is ‘only’ $3.75. And that I have a job to pay for it. Too bad it’s just to goddamn Monday.

There’s just too many mother uckers out there.

Didn’t get a chance to see who this week’s boobleheads are. I’m pretty sure whoever’s on, they won’t be worth watching. Have a good Sunday.

Hope you’re having a good weekend. Please carry on amongst yourselves.

We’ll be taking off for Canada as soon as I get home from work tonight. Since the 9^th Circuit says they don’t need reasonable suspicion (let alone probable cause) to search – and confiscate – your laptop at the border, I don’t think we’ll be bringing ours along with us. I don’t have anything illegal on mine, but would just as soon not be without it for months just because they think I don’t look quite right or something. So, enjoy the weekend, and we’ll catch ya again on Monday.

So, FedEx managed to misdeliver another package yesterday. Should have seen it coming. It’s only the updated maps for my GPS, but god only knows when I’ll actually get the goddamn thing. Would have been nice to have, since Granny and I are headed up to Kingston ON for the Canadian Fellowship Conference tomorrow. So I called them up and they told me to chill for at least 24 hours. Then they’ll try dicking me around for a while, until I just can’t stand it anymore. I’ve been through all this before, so I guess I just have to deal with the seller at this point. What a hassle. I really hate FedEx. Problem is, you rarely see who the seller is gonna use as a shipper until they actually ship the damn thing. Oh well.

No good shit to share this morning. Got a new remote control, which probably doesn’t sound too exciting, except you put in the make and model of all your devices, and it connects to the Internet and programs the thing, so all you have to do is touch ‘play dvd’ on the color touch screen, and it turns on all the correct devices (and turns off whatever’s on that you don’t need). You can even view photos on the thing. Pretty cool. Well, I think it’s pretty cool, but I’m sure there’s at least somebody that will be filled with contempt and disdain at the mere thought of such a thing. Fortunately, I can live with that.

I figured it was about time I wrote something really interesting and intelligent here. Unfortunately, I couldn’t think of anything, so I’ll tell you about the poo-poo my puppy left for me when I came home for lunch yesterday. I’ve seen a lot of crap in my time, but this was pretty amazing. Stellar, really, in terms of sheer volume for such a small (though quickly growing) dog. It had the consistency of wet mud, and had to have covered at least four square feet, at an average depth of approximately 3 1/2″ or so. That’s, what, almost 1.2 cubic feet of shit. I wound up using a snow shovel to clean it up. Good thing I didn’t put the shovels away for the season yet. That reminds me. I’d better go and get that shovel out of the shower. Thank goodness Granny will be home with him today.