Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on August 14, 2011 at 4:27 am

• I have just about had it up to *here* (eyebrow level, or thereabouts) with the neuropathy waiting until my bedtime to flare up. #
• I think I managed a whole *2* hours of sleep. Work starts in 20 minutes, goes until midnight. I'm doomed. #
• On the plus side, the neuropathy abated pretty much the minute I got out of bed. I begin to understand what causes conspiracy theories. #
• I totally have my #geek hat on today. Editing PHP & CSS, managing a router, chugging Diet Coke and barely staying awake. Typical. #
• Duke Nukem Forever *sucks.* #blametheteaparty #
• My lawn died. #blametheteaparty #
• Uh-oh… router crash! #blametheteaparty #
• John Kerry seems to have been on TV a lot lately. I wonder… could he planning to "primary" Obama? I bet he thinks he could win. #tcot #
• listening to "Bruce Hornsby and the Range – Down the road tonight" ? http://blip.fm/~16onge #
• The only campaign promise I need to hear for 2012: "I will fire every single Obama hire." http://bit.ly/pdO4xC #tcot #
• (In case you missed it first thing this morning…) Thus Spake Russ: Mass(ive) Effect(s on my free time) http://emersons.net/?p=2676 #
• Being the bloodthirsty arch-conservative that I am, I'd take a Napoleonic approach to the London riots: "a whiff of grapeshot." #
• If I was lost/injured in the woods, I'm pretty sure I'd wait longer than 3 or 4 days before eating bugs. http://fxn.ws/qHVmwR #
• My cats would murder me if I tried dressing them up like that. #Redeye #
• I don't much mind the cat hopping up on my desk. I do, however, mind him deciding to wash his naughty bits while he's up here. #
• Ron Paul is kind of like that crazy/drunk uncle you have to invite for Thxgiving, but really wish he already had other plans. #amesdebate #
• Just finished my blog post to be published tomorrow. I amuse myself. #
• I wish I could figure out who it was that posted a link to my latest blog post on their Facebook. #
• Good lord, it's raining. About two months too late to save my lawn, but I'll take it anyway. #
• Those sabotaging Verizon strikers ought to consider how many unemployed people would be thrilled to have their jobs. #
• Having pointlessly beaten my head on my desk for the last 4 hours, maybe now I can go get some dinner. #
• It occurs to me that even after he's defeated in 2012, America will still have to put up w/ Celebrity Obama for another 30-40 years. Egads. #

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Posted By Russ Emerson on August 12, 2011 at 10:04 am

Occupied as I was with work last night, I had the GOP debate last night on the TV, but I kept the volume turned down so I could focus on routers. I get most of my coverage from the web, anyway.

I was able to catch brief moments here and there, however, from which I was able to draw certain impressions of the participants.

In no particular order, then:

• Herman Cain is rather a lot like the dad at the head of the table. Gruff and stern sounding, he is in fact a pretty decent guy. Like dads everywhere, though, he has a tendency to occasionally do or say something that’s want-to-die embarrassing.
• Tim Pawlenty resembles the cook for whom the dinner has to be the best ever — the result had better be worth the many hours sweating over a hot stove, or the family may just have to get someone else.
• Michelle Bachmann is the precocious 12-year-old who’s been invited to sit at the grown-ups table for the first time. Despite a lack of adult experience, she’s got something to say about pretty much everything, and you mostly wish she would just shut up for three minutes please, even though almost everything she says is factually correct.
• Mitt Romney is the oldest brother. He has just completed his third leveraged buy out; he’s now contemplating medical school as a bit of a change of pace. Of course he aced his MCAT. He gets stood up on dates as often as not.
• Rick Santorum gets seated all the way at the foot of the table; most of the best bits of food never make it to him, but when he gets his teeth into a drumstick he doesn’t let go. Much to everyone’s surprise, he never seems to get gravy on himself.
• Jon Huntsman shows up for dinner, but no one can recall who invited him or with whom he arrived. Everyone addresses him as “Jim” but he never complains or corrects them — he’s just happy to be there.
• Doctor Ron Paul (you mustn’t forget the Doctor, or his followers get cranky) reminds me of nothing so much as the frequently drunk and always crazy uncle who you’re required to invite to all family occasions, but you sincerely wish he’d call to tell you he’d already made other plans. His showing up is bad enough, but it’s compounded by the fact that he never travels anywhere without his pack of howling mutts.
• Newt Gingrich is the cousin everyone enjoys talking to, but at the end of the get-together no one wants to give him a ride home.

I’m nowhere near deciding who I will support for the nomination.

On the other hand, I can summarily dismiss Jon “Who?” Hunstman as well as Ron “anti-Semitic crank” Paul.

I do wish Thaddeus McCotter had been at the debate.

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