I dined with Alan, Glo, DD and Mom last evening. Tracey didn’t make it because she was at work. She worked this Saturday so one of her nurses could have a birthday off. Alan said that was nice of her, but would the nurse do the same for Tracey. I don’t know ... I would like to hope so. Other than the cold wind we didn’t have much to complain about last evening. And after a phone call to my sister Rhonda who lives up on the shore of Lake Superior in northern Minnesota ... we didn’t feel too so bad about the temperature down here. Alan called her on his cell phone and then we passed the phone around so everybody had a chance to gab with her. Rob and Rhonda moved up there last fall and this is their first full winter there. Rhonda said they have 3 feet of snow on the ground now and the temperature will be -25° F. by this morning. They go out to start the car every evening before going to bed and let it run so it will start again the next day. I told her I would be getting a heater for the engine!
CNN had a bunch of talking heads running off at the mouth about the Nevada primary but I never did hear any numbers last night. This morning they are all squawking about Hillarity winning big in Nevada but from what I can see she got 12 delegates and Obama got 13 delegates. I get so sick of the media spin on all of this. They want to yak about the percentage of votes when ALL that really matters is the delegate count. Obama is still beating Hillarity in actual delegates representing real people. Now if only the Democratic party were actually democratic he would be winning. But this not so democratic political party also has over 400 Superdelegates ... backroom luminaries who sell their delegate votes for political leverage. Hillarity will get most of those because she sleeps with Bill. (Or maybe I should say USED to sleep with Bill?)
A Greenpeace inflatable boat is seen next to Japan’s whaling fleet’s factory ship Nisshin Maru and hunter vessel Yushin Maru No 2 in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary January 18, 2008. Greenpeace said its protest ship, Esperanza, had successfully stopped Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean after intercepting the fleet’s factory processing ship, the Nisshin Maru, at the weekend and chasing it north through heavy seas.
“Hi honey. This is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?”
“No Daddy. She’s upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul.”
After a brief pause, Daddy says, “But honey, you haven’t got an Uncle Paul.”
“Oh yes I do, and he’s upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now.”
Brief Pause.
“Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy’s car just pulled into the driveway.”
“Okay Daddy, just a minute.”
A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone. “I did it Daddy.”
“And what happened honey?”
“Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming. Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she isn’t moving at all!”
“Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?”
“He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too. He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn’t know that you took out the water last week to clean it. He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he’s dead.”
***Long Pause***
***Longer Pause***
***Even Longer Pause***
Then Daddy says, “Swimming pool? Is this 555-5731?”
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