In my search for brevity, I may oversimplify the following and not fully explain *why* I believe these things. If you want to know how I arrived at a particular conclusion (especially one you disagree with) just ask me.

Submitted for your consideration:

1. People too often vote their emotions rather than their beliefs.
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M and I are planning to go to Seattle some time in the next month or two.

Anyone interested in the details should comment here, and possibly select to receive notifications of comments to this entry.

Calling session for today is cancelled due to lack of interest. I’ll probably be making some calls anyway, but the house is not really in a condition to receive guests.

If you DO want to make some “get out the vote” calls, please do so anyway… you can visit moveon.org for info. Also, if you would like to join me for dinner, give me a call :)

I’ve decided to spend some time this weekend making political calls. Would you like to join me?

I figured I would contact some friends and if they want to join me, take them to dinner as well. I’ll be calling between 2 and 6 and going out to dinner around 6:30 or 7:00, on both Saturday and Sunday.

In fact anyone can make calls from home, but if you decide to join me that will be great. I’ll even buy you dinner! (Limit 10) You are welcome to drop by and say HI even if you’re not making calls, and you’re welcome to join us for dinner too.

If you can’t make it this weekend, but you still want to help out, you can make calls on your own from home… visit moveon.org for info.

I’ve set this up as a “Private” event, meaning that moveon.org won’t invite people I don’t know, but feel free to forward this URL or bring others along… “friend of a friend” is OK too. I expect this to be a pretty low-key event.

More info can be found here: http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=26707
Or, send me email or try me on IM (check my profile). Thanks!

I love our new kitchen, but our savings are pretty well tapped at this point, so it seems unlikely that we’ll be able to use our timeshare points.

For that reason, I would like to offer them to our friends. If you’re thinking about taking a trip before the end of the year, let me know and I may be able to transfer points to you. I would like to recoup a little cash, but not a huge amount… For a friend I’d probably ask for a bit less than a cheap-ish hotel stay, and the rooms are usually much nicer.

Anyway, send me a comment if you think you might be in a position to use them. If you’re not sure where you’re going I can give you some ideas and options…

Yes, I know, it’s the wrong time of year for it, but I was waiting on some investment paperwork and filed a six-month extension, and would you look at that, six months has gone by. Anyway, I’m getting a fair amount back, so that’s cool.

I also cleared out some space in the garage and moved things around so we have room for 2 cars again. And made cookies. woo hoo!

Interview at the Y went really well, and I am quite hopeful. Quick version: the job is on the User Database team (UDB is the thing that stores all the “user data” stored along with a user’s Yahoo account, including customization and settings for most or all of Yahoo’s various features (properties). People I already know on this team are Edgar W. (former AV) and Greg H (former SGI). They seem impressed with my abilities and background. Something like 2 or 3 other candidates need to also be interviewed, but I’m pretty confident we’ll be moving on to the Price Is Right phase soon.
More info, behind the magic curtain

Truck vs. House (not ours!)

Luckily, this is NOT, repeat NOT a picture of my house. The following is known about the accident:

• Driver fled the scene, truck presumed stolen
• Initial impact was not at angle shown, driver probably turned trying to pull out
• In order to hit the house, driver had to make it over a curb, bushes, sidewalk, more bushes, and another curb.
• Gas main had to be shut off (probably why house windows are open)
• This unlucky homeowner has the unit closest to the street. Our unit is furthest from the street (and not even attached to the same building.)

I had an interesting day, but thankfully not as interesting as the day this homeowner (or the stupid driver) is having. Seeing this when I got home (and the fire truck, police car and PG&E van) was actually the second-most interesting thing for me today.

The #1 most interesting thing to happen to me today… will have to wait for the next post (which will be friend-locked).

We adopted Godzilla at a recent gaming/scifi con and brought him home.

Doesn’t he look like he’s about to tell a joke?
“You know I had a gig in Osaka last week, and I really killed. Brought down the house, you could say!”
“So I was standing outside in Tokyo the other day… ‘cuz you know, can’t fit into most buildings?”
“Fear me! Rar!… Eh? Nothing? …. Ah well, it was worth a try. Good night, drive safe, tip your waitstaff!”