No Celery Please

So neither of my teams is in contention for the Super Bowl…  The Panthers having sucked their way through a season full of third string quarterbacks (actually, it was a miracle they won as many as they did) and the Steelers having been unceremoniously taken out of the running by Jacksonville last weekend.

 So I really have no real feelings about who wins the Super Bowl this year.  I guess if I had to root for someone, it would be the Colts.  I think Manning is an excellent player.  Watching him QB is kind of like watching art (you know, violent, bone-crunching art).

Right now I am watching Green Bay and Seattle slide around in a crazy snow storm.  Green Bay is in the lead and I believe they are going to stay there.  The game is fun to watch, though, just because of all that snow.

 But at 8…  New England is playing Jacksonville.

This is going to be a great game for me.  I am not happy with Jacksonville.  They manhandled my teams pretty badly this year.  I would enjoy seeing them lose. and New England is undefeated.  Not only do I have a big streak of Schadenfreude in me that would LOVE to see the undefeated team get taken down, but if NEW ENGLAND gets beaten by Jacksonville, well, then the Steelers really had no chance against them anyway, right?

So I am looking forward to this game tonight.  I will cheer every time anyone does anything because, hey! I want them both to lose!

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Update.  So the Patriots won, which is fine.  also.  the Colts Lost!   I can’t believe the Chargers beat the Colts!  ah well.. the Patriots will take care of them.

Do you know how many times I have logged into WordPress since I switched my account over?

 I’ll tell you… none.

 Why?  Because WordPress remembers me on this computer!

That’s why.

It doesn’t take much to make me happy.

When you give a group of people a work assignment that ought to take somewhere between 2 and 5 hours to complete, and you assign it to them in May and tell them that they have until the end of July to complete it… do you think they ought to be able to get it done?

 Then, when none of them get it done because “it’s budget season and we’re busy” and so you give them a reprieve and tell them that, OK, we talked to audit and now we have until December 31 to do this 5 or so hours of work, but, seriously, audit is going to check… it really, really, really HAS to be done by December 31.  Seriously.

 Do you think they ought to be able to get it done?

I’ll give you one guess as to the answer.

Now… 8 months after the original assignment and 2 deadlines later, some people, finally realizing that ignoring this is not going to make it go away, are asking… now, when do you need this?

So now that the 2008 election season is ramping up (more than it was), I was starting to think about voting, and the fact that thisyear, the lines will once again be HUGE and it will take me an hour to go vote when the time comes in November.

 Now – I vote every year, whether I want to or not.

I think that deserves a little consideration.

Most years, when I go to vote, the line, if there is a line, has a couple of people in it and it moves right along and I get in, vote, and back out in a matter of minutes.

So something I saw in the Philadelphia Airport got me to thinking.

They have a special security line there for people who are frequent enough fliers that they have gold or platinum memberships.  That line is much shorter, because most people don’t fly that much.

Why can’t the NC Board of Elections do the same thing?

Every year, as I go in and vote in off-year elections, they could stamp my voter card or something.

Then, when the presidential elections come around, I (and anyone else with 4 stamps, hell, make it 3 – whatever) could breeze in through the “frequent voter” line, get in and out with my usual speed, and the other folks who only vote when it’s a presidential year can continue to stand in the long line that they created.

I think it’s a great idea – and I bet anyone else who votes in the off-year elections and dreads the lines they will see come president-picking time would agree.

It might even get some more people voting in those off-years just to get that stamp!

I believe we are going to give WordPress a shot.  I am just, well, tired of having to deal with Blogger giving me crap.

 Switching was so easy, and I got to import all my posts, so it’s not like I am starting again on yet another startover blog.

So far I like the interface better.  But we shall see – who knows – WordPress probably has its issues too!

It has stats, too, which I think is cool.

So now, in addition to the ABSOLUTE REFUSAL of Blogger to “remember me on this computer”…

The comment fields for posting seem to no longer be allowed to remember my email address.

Used to be, I could type “s” and there my address would pop up, as though I had, I dunno, perhaps entered it a BILLION times to make comments on blogger.

But sometime last week, well, no, no more. Now you have to type the whole email address.

Come on, Blogger… we have already established my laziness. Making me type my whole email address every time I want to log in to make a comment?

Next I suppose they will set it so it doesn’t even remember me during the same IE session and I will have to log in separately for each and every comment.

It’s like they are doing it on purpose.

So Obama won the Iowa caucus.

He is my favorite of the viable Democratic candidates. (I took the candidate quiz – and I can’t believe the the candidate I had the most agreement with was Kucinich (sp?) – seriously – I didn’t think I was that nutty, but I guess I am – but he can’t be elected, so it matters not).

So, my preferred viable candidate won in Iowa, which I thought was cool. Although, John Edwards came in second, which I thought was not cool (My dislike of John Edwards goes back to a form letter his office sent back when I wrote to him saying we shouldn’t be going to war in Iraq and this letter came back basically saying that he “knew things” that regular folks like me didn’t know and we had to go to war in Iraq for the good of the planet, and, oh god, just don’t even get me started – I vowed that day that I would never vote for that man again in my life (because I had voted for him to be senator in the first place).

So Obama wins Iowa.

But then… on the Republican side… Huckabee. Huckabee? Seriously?

So now I’m thinking that maybe Iowans are crazy as a whole and the whole Obama thing is a fluke and Hillary will probably carry New Hampshire (which is ok – I mean, Hillary’s not my favorite, but she does have a good energy policy – I’m just not real big on some of her actions / statements on middle east politics and I am concerned that while she might win over the Dems, she might have a hard time with moderate Republicans, and, lets face it, without the moderate republicans, the Dems are not gonna win anything.).

Huckabee?

You mean “let’s abolish the IRS (right like that’s ever going to actually happen)” Huckabee?

OOOOOOKay, Iowa.

I guess we shall see where this goes.

Oh, yeah, and I know I said I was sick to death of hearing abuot all this stuff, but I can’t help it. Even though the nominees will be decided by other states than mine, I can’t help but be a little interested. Egad – especially if the Dems end up running EDWARDS! I might have to bow out of voting at all in that case.

(Oh – for the record, I am a registered independent, but let’s face it, the independents never really put up much of a fight in these things)

I miss cheese.

Back in the day… back when I was, you know, morbidly obese, and not merely chunky – as I am now… I would eat cheese on everything.

Lots of cheese. Melted. Yummy piles of melty goodness on almost everything.

There is very little in the way of food that cannot be improved by the addition of melted cheese.

Did I mention lots of it?

Now I will have a piece of cheese sometimes. On a sandwich. Grated cheese on a salad. But just regular sorts of amounts. Not the ridiculous piles of cheesy goodness that used to abound.

Every once in a great while, I will break down and buy an “Amy’s Vegetarian Enchilada” then cover it with about half a bag of grated mexican blend cheese and microwave the whole thing into a gooey pile of cheesy tasty heavenitude.

But not very often.

That time may be coming again.

I miss cheese.