I have been sitting at the King County Democratic Convention for a grand total of 10 minutes.
Never in my life has the desire been stronger to vote a straight REPUBLICAN ticket.
Bleh.
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Ivan and I recorded our show a few hours later than usual, then I had a few other things to do, so the podcast isn’t edited and posted yet. I’ll have it out before another 24 hours go by though. Promise.
A group from the Seattle Children’s Chorus (including Amy) sang today at a ceremony welcoming the first ever Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Seattle. Woo! I did some camera phone video of some of the songs too, but the audio quality on the cell phone video was horrible, so I won’t post it. I’ll probably be in bed by 9:30 UTC. Better than last night when it was about 11 UTC. But it is still a long way from the 7 UTC… or even 6 UTC… that I should be heading to bed. Bleh. Two days ago I only had 2 hours of sleep. Yesterday I had a conference call at 16 UTC and had 3.5 hours of sleep. Today I have a meeting at 15:30 UTC. To make that I need to be up at 14 UTC. So I’m looking at 4.5 hours of sleep tonight. That’s better, right? The trend is going in the right direction at least… Woo! But it is nowhere near enough. Something tells me I’m going to sleep all day Saturday.
On a regular basis I should be getting to sleep by 7 UTC at the latest. And getting up at maybe 14 or 15 UTC. For the last week I think the earliest I have gotten to bed was 9 UTC. Yesterday I didn’t go to sleep until almost 13 UTC. Right now it is 10:30 UTC. I am not asleep. I have a conference call with Europe for work at 16 UTC. Last night I had less than 3 hours of sleep. Looks like if I’m lucky I’ll get 4 tonight. This can’t last. I need to force myself back onto a regular sleep schedule again. Bleh. Going to try to head to sleep now. For a variety of reasons, I only got about two hours of sleep last night. I am dragging through the day, doing what I need to do, but it is painful. The comfy round chair my office-mate brought into our shared office a few months keeps beckoning, but I am resisting and trying to keep productive. Need to make it through the day, then I can get home and… well… I’ll have passed the wall by then and probably still won’t fall asleep until midnight, but I can still wish for an earlier sleep, can’t I? Just to add to my bleh, a few minutes ago I got lunch from the cafeteria. The entree today was cheese quesadillas. I was wary, but I didn’t want to wait in line for a burger or what not. So I got them. It is aweful. I tried about three bites, but trying more is just not something I have in me today. So I’ll probably be off to the vending machine soon to make up for the lack of real lunch. In the mean time, here is my short lunchtime post. :-) Bleh. I mentioned briefly and without detail on the last podcast that we were in the process of making some tough choices relating to having Amy continue at her current school next year or trying somewhere or something else. There are a number of factors in play including some stuff the school is doing, some of how Amy is doing, and also of course the costs involved, which are not trivial. The official deadline for deciding on next year is tomorrow. With the information we have today and the situation today, that would have been a very hard call for us to make today, and Brandy and I were leaning in different directions. This morning though, we had a 40 minute meeting with the Head of School to discuss some of our concerns. In the end we’re going to do some stuff, they are going to do some stuff, and we now have until the end of June to make a final decision on next year. That helps a lot. Hopefully by then we’ll have a much stronger sense of where things stand and if it looks like things are starting to look more like they did in 6th grade (very positive) as opposed to how they looked the first half of 7th grade (not so much). So… three more months… and in that time we… and Amy… and the school… have some work to do. We’ll see how that all works out. Brandy’s new laptop just got delivered by FedEx. She is dropping Amy off at school right now. It will be here when she returns in a few minutes. Meanwhile, I still feel icky, but in a few minutes I’ll drag myself in to work. There is one meeting later today I don’t want to miss. And I don’t think I am contagious. Yea! on the first. Bleh! on the second. Brandy and Amy are home again. It is a good thing. Watched McCain’s speech earlier. Am watching Clinton’s speech now. This has solidified one thing in my mind. McCain is a reasonable moderate Republican and a honorable man. Clinton represents all the worst tendencies of American politics. McCain will do many things that I think are horrible. So would Clinton. (So would Obama for that matter.) I don’t agree with any of them on policy matters. The difference for me is not about policy, it is about character. My pick is Obama. But if Clinton somehow manages to somehow stick this through until the convention and then somehow pulls out a win… something which I still think is highly unlikely… then she will have definitely converted my vote from a “D” to an “R”. Hillary Clinton will never, ever, get my vote. I am one of those voters for which the Democratic choice of nominee will directly effect my general election vote. How many of us are there? Are there more who lean in my direction than the opposite direction (meaning an Obama win would convert them to Republican)? I don’t know. But it is a real and important dynamic. |
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