I Can't Wait..... Literally

I think there are a few different kind of patience. There's the kind of patience you show by sitting through a boring class. There's the kind you use when someone asks you a million questions in a row. These types of patience are obviously beneficial to mankind. It allows us to be productive and not kill each other so much. But then there's another kind of patience: the patience demanded of us to wait until December 25th to open our Christmas presents. I don't like this kind of patience.
My mom used to wrap my Christmas presents in multiple layers with notes on each layer which read "I know today isn't Christmas! STOP UNWRAPPING THIS PRESENT!" She knew me well.
Jill, my wife, and I are going to have a baby in September. The ultrasound where we can find out whether it's a boy or a girl is coming up in a few weeks. We always told each other that we weren't going to find out what it was. We wanted to be surprised....
I don't think i'm gonna make it another six months.
To make it worse, i'm taking a child development class right now. It's enough to feed my anxiety for the rest of the week.

Meetings

How many meetings does the world need?

Well, judging by the effectiveness of the meetings i've attended, zero. I am actually currently sitting in a meeting. My typing is working to my advantage, I think. It looks like i'm writing down notes. Looking around I see two people actually paying attention, which includes the person speaking. What are we going to get out of this meeting besides anxiety? A whole bunch of papers that i'll leave in my car for a few weeks and then throw away as part of my bi-annually car cleaning. *Speaking of which, the weather is getting nice outside. That means it's about car cleaning season.*

I'm of the persuasion that we, as Americans, are over-meetinged. We live in a technological world full of technology-whatnots, and how do we utilize this ingenuity? By using technology to communicate to each other the times and places which we should meet to communicate to each other....

While in high school I stumbled upon this great little website called quickdot.com. If wonders exist, it was a wonder. You could add these little boxes on your quickdot page wherein you would have little instant message sessions. They weren't so much instant messages, more like little message boards. So on one page you could see all your "quickdot" conversations at once. Simple, convenient, and many more adjectives of the like. You could even add group quickdots. We had a group of about thirty friends where we would all chat about whatever we felt like for the day. The best part was, just like any other message board, you didn't have to be on at the same time. You could log in any time during the day and see what everyone else had said and add your two cents.

Now that's a meeting I could get behind. Every time I saw a post from "that guy" who always had something to say but never seemed to have a point, i'd just skip it instead of sitting for ten minutes mentally repeating "we don't care, we're hungry, stop talking!"


*DISCLAIMER* quickdot.com went offline in 2001 despite my attempts to tell the world about it.

The Florida and Michigan Problem

I completely agreed that both Florida and Michigan should have had their delegates stripped on the democratic side when they moved their primaries up earlier than February 4th in violation of party rules. But now things are different.

Florida and Michigan together possess 367 delegates (including super-delegate). Currently the difference between Obama and Clinton is about 105 delegates, with Obama being ahead in the count. There are only 611 delegates left which are still up for grabs. If this past Tuesday was any indication, they will most likely be split fairly evenly. This would leave Clinton down 265 delegates, and Obama only 154 votes shy of the nomination. Those sweet 367 emissaries from the cheating states should look pretty desirable to both campaigns right about now.

Before John Edwards dropped out of the race he was able to rack up a couple of delegates for himself. Some of those were automatically divvied out to the remaining contenders, but Edwards was able to hold on to 26 delegates since he "suspended" his campaign rather than simply "dropping out." What a sweet day it would be for John Edwards if his measly 26 delegates were able to decide the nomination.

This mess may be a blessing in disguise for the Democrats, however. With the historic nature and the closeness of the race, little attention is being given to John McCain. Now that he has the Republican nomination we can presume that he's rushing to gather support from the conservatives who loathe him so. Whether it will work or not will be pretty hard to tell, since nobody will be covering it. My guess is that McCain will launch a pretty big accusation at the Democrats or maybe have another scandal that turns out to be the product of the liberal media. Anything else just won't make headlines, and without headlines John McCain will head down the same path as Rudy Giuliani did. The path of "isn't he still in the race?"

Super Tuesday 2, afterthoughts

The second super Tuesday has come and gone. Wasn't so super. Was hardly even a Tuesday. It was more like a Thursday how you feel that the weekend is coming but then you realize you still have to get through a whole other day. Well that's kinda how I feel. I was hoping for some excitement, but apparently excitement is still months away. Don't get me wrong, politics are fun to watch, but i'm starting to develop ADD here.

You've got McCain who has been the clear Republican nominee since the beginning of February, but we had to pretend that it was possible that Huckabee still might part the Red Sea and sneak a victory. Even Huckabee knew that wouldn't happen. At least now there's some real closure on the red side of the isle. Now McCain needs to pick a running mate that will do something for him. Recent polls say he not only loses to Obama, but now also loses to Hillary. The way I see it he has two choices: go the conservative route and pick a VP who will rally could get disenfranchised Republicans to actually vote, or he can choose an independent who can cut away some of the Democrats votes. Tough choice.

Now we have the Democrats. There is no way this one will end well. Some kind of deal should have been made a long time ago. This one's going to convention, but I think Obama's going to come out on top. The general masses have been screaming "CHANGE" in their minds for the past 4 years and have been shrieking it vocally for the past two. Both McCain and Clinton epitomize the Washington establishment more than most others residing in our nation's capital. The masses will most likely realize this sooner or later. Probably later.

On a related note...
A few days ago Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, announced that he would not be seeking the presidency this election cycle. He also said that he would be throwing his support behind the person who demonstrated themselves to be the most bipartisan..... HELLO! Could he possibly support anyone besides Barack Obama? Not a chance. Clinton is more divisive than George Bush. McCain might talk like an independent, but has the policies of Bush.
Obama needs to snag Bloomberg as his running mate. Now that is a winning ticket. Moderate leaning republicans and the business elite would be having second (or possibly third) thoughts about McCain. It would be pulling McCain's bread and butter right out from under him. Democrats are going to show up to vote no matter who the candidate is. Just as long as they beat the Republican. This gives Obama a lot more freedom to choose a running mate that will maximize his independent and conservative votes in the general election.