sorry

long time, no write... I know

sorry... work, life, water polo, politics, college football, blah blah blah

Work has been crazy... Monday was an up till midnight day of work.... but today we finally got a development freeze... thank god

Life is crazy... nothing like prepping for Halloween (especially when we're going away for a weekend getaway to Vegas the weekend before Halloween... and man do we need it).

Kyle sat out the game two Thursdays ago for grade (just one game, but I think it made an impression... grades are up and he's back in the pool). Last Tuesday, he played the school he would have attended had we not gone cross-town. He only played the last quarter (the coach thought it a good idea to keep the pressure on... preaching to the converted here, coach), but played well and even scored on a last-second shot. Last Thursday he played another quarter (against a team that wouldn't challenge the team... and it would give the Frosh/Soph goalie some good game time). Yesterday, he played the whole game, and a good game it was. While he gave up eight goals, three were on man-down situations and one on a penalty shot. He had seven saves, two steals, and an assist, and the team fought back from behind to send the game to overtime. And they won their first overtime game of the season (they lost their other two OT games)... they're undefeated in league.

Politics have been on an interesting ride: Obama gets endorsements from Powell (hope he's willing to come on as Sec of State... and I'd hit up McCain as Sec of Def... but more on that--and not counting chickens, etc--later), Warren Buffet, Bernanke (of a sort), William F. Buckley's son, and 124 newspapers (to McCain's 46). It all looks good, kinda. Though the silly season is hitting hyperdrive.

We've jumped from "liberal" to "secret Muslim" to "palling around" with terrrorists (with constant references to his middle name)... to accusing Obama of smearing "Joe the Plumber"... to now GOP congresspeople hinting at Obama being "anti-American" to other accusations of Socialism, to discussion of areas of "real" America, to accusations of "communist" yesterday... where is this all heading? What's next? He's a pedophile? Necrophile? The anti-Christ?

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UPDATE: 11:20am... it's worse: they're back to "academic" ... damn, that's hitting below the belt.
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(of course, Biden doesn't help with his "testing" remark over the weekend, and Obama's pandering to both Philadelphia and Tampa's crowds over their baseball teams was just stupid)

Palin's appearance on SNL was pretty good (the open was great, the Weekend Update was idiotic)... she looked good... how much of that wardrobe was part of the 150K from the RNC? What would Joe the Plumber say if his wife (uh, ex-wife?) came back with a 150K bill on threads?

Even with all this, Obama's lead in popular vote seems to be growing, but I see his electoral vote dwindling to the point where his "on the face of it" victory is slim, and under the "Bradley Effect," he loses outright (though both margins are tightening as we get closer to election day).

My take is that when November 5 rolls around, we'll be looking at another Republican administration. Yeah, I'm a pessimist.

Anyway...

UCLA football won a great comeback victory... of course, yesterday we lost another offensive lineman... not good.

It's all crazy right now...

back to work... more chiro later this afternoon, maybe some more Halloween decorating... more work tomorrow, then off to Vegas for the weekend... man, am I looking forward to that...