White Days

Well, I've been informed by some folks that I've recently been slacking off on my duty as a blogger. As we've recently acquired some new recruits to blogging, I suppose I should be setting a good example. So, during my long drive home yesterday, I tried to come up with a few things I could rant about. Here's what I came up with.

First of all, driving home after the weekend stinks. I like my job and I know Liz likes hers, too (when she's not in Austin), but why couldn't Rochester be 30 minutes from Clintonville? After a long drive home, I was welcomed to the treat of shoveling my driveway, as we got about 2-3 inches of snow over the weekend. Joy.

Let's talk politics for a moment... I haven't said much about politics since the election for a couple reasons. First of all, I'm generally not very active in politics. There's a reason we have elected officials - so they can worry about politics for us. I'll sure bet they don't concern themselves with how I connect to a SQL database from my J2EE app. (The correct answer is "through JNDI" for any of you that were actually wondering.) However, a conversation I was having this weekend made me think. My sister mentioned that, since the election, she's simply stopped paying attention to politics (as have I, and I assume plenty of others, too). It's to the point where I feel like "Geez...Bush is in office again, what good things can be in the news for me to see?" Now that Powell, who was the only one that I liked from that administration is leaving, I really have nothing to look forward to. Therefore, I simply don't look. I live my isolated life in Minnesota and hope the World isn't suffering from nuclear winter come 2008. Of course, if no one is paying attention to politics (except the Rupublicans, of course), Bush is going to run unchecked and do whatever he pleases. Honestly, the man reminds me more of Stalin all the time. I've never really been "scared" for the future of the US, but I am now.

Ranting aside, I had a nice long weekend at home for Thanksgiving. Food was great, seeing family was grand. I'd like to say I now weight 10 pounds more than I did prior to the weekend after eating my own bodyweight in turkey and stuffing three times over, but, alas, tis not the truth.

We crashed at Nate's new pad on Saturday and had a thoroughly good time doing so. It involved lots of sitting around, playing video games, watching football, and eating. What could be wrong with that? Nate's place is pretty nice - certainly all a guy needs when he lives alone. The sparce furniture is a little comical, but oddly familiar to my apartment in Green Bay. When you get married, women fill your house and men empty the fridge. I think that's just the way life is.

Anyway, enough blabbing from me for a while - I need to save something for the rest of the week so I don't get in trouble again.

Take care, all.