What'd I do...tried to enjoy a bit more of the vacation that shall soon end. Spent time w/the kids, played some Lou Reed tunes & now everyone's asleep and I'm burning some cds and grooving on some old Sly Stone tunes ("There's a riot goin on" and "Fresh").

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I've been a slug most of the evening; the spouse and I went out to do errands earlier today, had dinner out, then came home. He fell asleep on the bed from a couple of hours before getting the laundry going in our brand new laundry facilities (great new machines, bigger and better, and prices didn't go up as much as feared), while I added more songs to iTunes, learned how to sync my calendar to the iPod, then did so.

Tomorrow (well, technically today since it's past midnight) we'll be out late; we're seeing a comedy show being put on by The Party Progressive, featuring Will Durst and Johnny Steele. Should be a great show; last time the spouse and I saw Durst, we got stuck at a table right up front, and I was laughing so hard he actually stopped his routine, came over and asked me if I was all right.  (Yes, I was quite embarrased!) We're driving over to Fremont from the Silly Con Valley and taking BART over to SF; it gives us a little more flexibility than taking CalTrain (we'd have to wait about 2-1/2 hours for the midnight train after the show is over), and we can nap since we'll be getting off at the last stop. I have to admit, there are benefits to having the spouse off work for a bit...but I'll be glad to get back to what passes for normalcy around this place...

"Mr. Bush, you do not own this country!" -- Keith Olbermann, 1/2/07

Study, study, study. Finals today. Beer tonight. Then two-and-a-half weeks of bliss before I climb back into the meat grinder.

I'm in the home stretch. Only one more semester 'til I graduate with an utterly useless degree in English Lit.

Woo hoo!

"If Adolph Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway" -- Joe Strummer

Ah. . .a night on the town. . .the focus changes a bit as you get a little long in the tooth.  I cleaned up some of my email files, cursed at my computer. . . .all the blogs are running so slow on my dial up connection it is driving me nuts. . .only been so the last 2 or 3 days. . .

By then I notice it is 1:30 in the A.M. and I suddenly want a cappuccino.  I get myself presentable and drive the 20 miles into the "Big" city of Idaho Falls, find the all night grocery sometime after 2.  I do my dog food, cat food, Shirl treats shopping with no other customers in the huge place.  I say "Hi" to the folks busily stocking the shelves.  Save myself some serious $$ over the nearby to my home (5 miles) grocery, and enjoy the look up into a cloudless night sky that is dazzling with stars.  Sipping away on my cappuccino, it was a pretty fine time out in the big city.

Yep, my night out on the town. . .

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it was date night....date night was supposed to be tuesday night but it ended up being deal with relationship issues night....wed was supposed to be politics night and i hoped to drag savage over to the meeting but he had to work and i had to have make up sex...sorry i missed that meeting...any other interesting things happen at the meeting?

I am here now.  Hey BooMan, I wanna T shirt.

Seriously, good times last night....unfortunately I have to work now, and the hangover is complicating matters.  

I went out and had a coupla beers and played pool.  It was fun.  Other than that, nothing interesting to report.  Glad u had a good time, maybe Atrios will add you to his blogroll now  <grin>

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit - Octavio Paz / Latino Político

Last night, last night. It was so recent. Nothing political, well almost. A little work on the upcoming Great Democracy Auction see www.hancockdems.org and then a half hour phone survey by some firm obviously fronting for electric utilities which prompted research on a pending FERC rule which will force ratepayers in New England (and elsewhere) to pay utilities to expand their infrastructure. I'll turn this into a radio piece for my weekly 5 minutes of consumer info. Traded massages with my GF while we watched Kathy Griffin (who is wound pretty tight I noticed). Lost an EBay auction for a game called Dirty Minds. That's ok, there will be another. Still on an emotional Hackett high. Can you say Gov. Hackett? I know you can. The 50 state campaign starts Now :)

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."

This is Jeff Davidson (jdavidson2 from Kos) and I'm hoping to put you in touch with a board member of PA NARAL to help raise awareness for their financial plight and the possibility of closing down NARAL PA.

There is also a fundraiser at Mugshots Coffee House - mugshotscoffeehouse.com - next Thursday evening (21st and Fairmount).  Tickets available there or
at www.prochoicepennsylvania.org.  

{Disclaimer: I'm not a member of that organization, nor am I being paid by them - but an artist I may be working with is performing at the event).  

I'm a student at Stanford, grew up in Philly, and have done a lot of work (for my age) in progressive politics. I've worked for Dean (in Burlington, actually--the most amazing experience of my life), Hoeffel, Tom Daschle, and Rendell, and I've been curious ever since it first started to blossom what makes the Philly progressive netroots scene what it is. I'm applying for a grant this fall to take an academic look at it, and its ramifications for the local and national party, as well as for the nature of politics generally.

Anyway, to get the grant from Stanford to do this (I need an apartment in Philly, etc., because my parents moved, alas) I have to submit the proposal this fall. So if there are people who would be interested in being interviewed next summer, as ridiculously early as it is to ask such a thing, it'd be very helpful if you could drop me an email at gwinant@stanford.edu.

Thanks a lot, and hope to be in touch.

PS I'm cross-posting this or similar comments on a bunch of Philly blogs. Sorry if I'm being a bit aggressive. Such is the world of undergraduate research at Stanford.

Well, it wasn't so exciting as free beer.

I went to the local county Democratic Party steering committe meeting. I'm a co-chair of the budget committee and The Primate is Chair of the events committee (as well as Democratic committeewoman from our township.)

We discussed the planning for the 2006 campaign.

As I said, so free beer.

The mother and the baby and the College of War