That's it I'm outta here

Moving my blog on over to WordPress. You can reach it here: http://patgallant.wordpress.com/

Possible problems brewing in Ohio?

From CNN:

Voters in Jefferson County in eastern Ohio will be allowed to cast ballots
over the next 10 days because flooding might prevent them from getting to their
polling places Tuesday, a state official.

Could this be setting up a protracted battle over Ohio to draw this out even longer? I smell a rat.

VOTE FOR MEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good lord.. Make her stop..

Energy Is Low

Tired and without an awful lot of energy today. I haven't been sleeping well lately and had a bit of a flare-up in my back last night. I'm going to just float with it right now. I know what appointments I need to keep and what things I need to accomplish today. Beyond that, I will accomplish what time and energy permits me to do.

 
 

Super Tuesday Part Deux

Is this the day that kills or extends Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign? There are primaries today in Texas, Rhode Island, Ohio and Vermont. The momentum is clearly in Obama's court, but Clinton refuses to go away. All signs point that even if she loses big today she will not concede.

Meanwhile the far right are encouraging members in open primaries to vote for Clinton because they are scared of how McCain would fair against Obama. New York has a closed primary system: you can only vote in a primary if you are a registered member of that party. At one time I thought that was kind of a dumb system, but now I'm seeing the wisdom behind it. The only problem I still have with it is that it leaves independents like myself out in the cold when it comes to casting a vote to help select presidential candidates.

Here's how my vote would go in November as of right now:

Obama v. McCain: Obama

Clinton v. McCain: I honestly don't know. I can't see myself voting for Clinton and McCain used to be a politician I respected until he sold out to the christian coalition after being smeared and destroyed by the Bush campaign in 2000. I might be tempted to vote third party or maybe I'll just go bowling instead.

Monday

Alright, partners…. I work in a white-collar office in upstate NY and the guy in the office next to me just strolled by wearing a cowboy hat. In NY. You know… where it's snowy and there aren't any dude ranches around.

Speaking of snowy, we currently have temperatures at 50 degrees (57 projected) and we're under a winter storm warning. Go figure that one.

The weekend was pretty good. We celebrated Pauline's birthday at her folks' on Saturday night and yesterday I got our taxes done. We're also entering into the world of selling things on Craigslist. Made a quick 14 bucks selling 2 Nintendo 64 games.

Did LOST add an extra day to February?

So here we are on February 29th. Leap Day, I guess is what it's called. It's bitter cold here this morning (-2 when I got up this morning) and I'm wondering why can't they just add an extra day to June instead of February? The sooner we get out of this wretched month the better.

Below are spoilers for last night's episode of LOST, so if you haven't watched it, turn back now.

• So it looks like the writers finally came clean about time travel being part of the show. It was rumored and theorized about for some time.
  
• Obviously time passes much slower on the island than off the island (the first evidence of which we saw during Daniel's rocket experiment a week or so ago). If that holds true, Oceanic 815 crashed on 9/22/2004 and Sayid, Desmond and Frank arrive on the freighter just before Christmas (don't remember the exact date. According to Lostpedia, the island is about 2 days ahead of off-island time.
  
• Daniel Faraday totally wished he was in Mike + The Mechanics back in 1996.
  
• There's some unanswered stuff dealing with paradoxes relating to time travel and I think they did a pretty sloppy job with it. Why didn't Daniel write in his 1996 journal to not let Desmond go on the helicopter? We could argue that he didn't want to get caught in a repeating time trap, but then he was clear to give Frank the exact approach coordinates so that Desmond (and others) would NOT time travel.
  
• So is Daniel time-travelling as well… Desmond is his "constant"
  
• Desmond and Penelope finally make contact. Why did she keep the same number for 8 years (out of love?)
  
• Was the door to the sick bay opened by Ben's "man on the ship"?
  
• There's an obvious (or perhaps false) divide between Frank/Daniel and the others on the freighter.
  
• Given the date that Sayid and Desmond reach the freighter, I wonder if the tsunami theory is valid and if the writers are gutsy enough to go with it given the real-life tragedy involved.
  

  
  

  I enjoyed the episode, but I think this was the weakest episode in an extremely strong season. Next week looks like some serious sh*t is gonna go down on the island.