Entries from October 2008

October 30, 2008

Today’s mail

And we didn’t even get any from Obama or McCain today.  Does this stuff actually work?  Has anyone ever pulled one of these out of their mailbox and said, “Son of a bitch!  This guy will protect our future!  Obviously, that other prick will work tirelessly to destroy our future.  I know who I’m voting [...]

October 26, 2008

Warning: this is a boring political post

Here’s a great picture from the speech the other day.  I am one of the pixels all the way on the left underneath the trees.  How cool is that?
(Photo credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)
I still can hardly believe that Indiana is a real live swing state this year.  It’s crazy.  The last time a Democrat won [...]

October 23, 2008

Barack Obama in Indianapolis

Now that Kelly mentions it, Big D and I went downtown today. This is the best picture I got:

Most of them looked more like this:

Or worse, like this:

They’re saying there were 35,000 people in attendance. I wish the blond would have stayed home though. I mean come on.

October 16, 2008

The Cat

We rarely see our cat Scout.  She’s never been crazy about the kids.  In fact, I believe she hissed at Big D every time she saw him from the day we brought him home from the hospital until he was about five or six.  It only made things worse when we brought Smella home.  But [...]

October 15, 2008

Mosquitoes and Negative Campaigning

Tonight, after the wife went to work, the kids and I played outside.  We kicked around balls and rode bikes and pushed cars and Smella and I were going to toss around the frisbee but on my first throw I nailed her in the space between the upper lip and nose which according to Google [...]

October 13, 2008

Fact and Opinion

1.  This is my second list post in a row.   Deal with it.
2.  I think this is the most honest assessment of where we are as a nation that I’ve read lately.  This is pretty good too.
3.  We found Big D’s paper that I referred to in a post a while back.

At [...]

October 8, 2008

Seven things you don’t need to know

The wife tagged me with a meme where I have to list seven fun facts about myself and then pass it on to seven other people.  Luckily for you, I’m not a spammer so I’ll just list some crap and not pass it on.
1.  I’m basically deaf in my right ear.
2.  I have a Big [...]