Sorry about the lack of a post yesterday - I just couldn’t come up with anything worth writing about. I’m not kidding. Here were some of the ideas rolling around in my head:

1. Deconstructing the lyrics of a Styx song, interpreting how ridiculous it is. Styx?
2. Some random technical crap.
3. That was it.

Yeah, I know, Hillary quit, Obama’s the official Democratic nominee… and I just don’t care. I’m sorry. To be perfectly honest, I was mildly surprised that Hillary got as far as she did; considering how many people she pissed off over the years, if you stop and think about it, it was almost insane that she was considered a front-runner in the first place. That’s part of the reason, I suspect, that Obama became so popular to begin with - he’s charismatic enough to get some attention, he’s the first realistic minority presidential candidate (Jesse Jackson doesn’t count), and he was smart enough to keep his positions really vague for a while. Of course, Hillary did a wonderful job of showing many of Obama’s weaknesses, which, to be fair, was really quite generous of her, but it doesn’t change the fact that, if there was an actual, real, credible candidate that the Democratic Party was willing to support, neither Clinton or Obama would have had a prayer this year. That said, from a personal perspective, it wouldn’t matter much to me - as long as the Democratic Party encourages candidates that talk about universal health care (because, as we all know, imposing more bureaucracy on our health care system is exactly the cure to what ails us) or adding any other entitlements at a time when our expenditures are already greater than our tax revenues, I’m not going to vote for them. It’s as simple as that. This is also why I’m extremely pissed at the Republican Party at the moment and why I think “compassionate conservatism” is a joke - lower taxes are great, but expenditures have to match revenues, at least in the long term. Long story short, before I go any further on this tangent, that’s why I’m not really blogging much about Obama, what his wife may or may not have said, or any of the rest of it - I wasn’t going to vote for him anyways. That said, in the near future, I might get into why so many people are having troubles with Obama’s racial issues. Here’s a sneak preview:

It’s not about racism. Just ask Mitt Romney’s dad.

Past that…

• Work is starting to mellow out a little, which means my post count might go up. No promises on quality.
• My personal life will be getting increasingly interesting. The ESO is due next month, so, once the kid is born, that’s pretty much going to nuke my personal time from orbit. In the meantime, I’m going to be fairly busy cleaning and fixing things, like that pesky intake manifold gasket on the ESO’s Malibu. I’m going to get into that at some point, too - that American car makers create cars with weaknesses that go out after 100,000 miles, require hours of labor to fix, and, if they fail, will turn the engine into a useless block of goo pretty much sums up why everyone buys imports. Seeing as the Malibu is a 2003, it’s clearly still an issue. More on this later. Much more.

That’s it for now.

UPDATE:  No it’s not!  I just remembered what I was originally going to write about here… see, I haven’t been getting much sleep lately (mostly self-induced), so I’ve been needing increased quantities of caffeine to function halfway normally (this probably isn’t helping the lack of sleep issue - I’m smart enough to know that).  Today, I discovered something glorious… the 32 oz can of Rock Star.  It only contains 320 mg of caffeine in a can (the equivalent of a little over ten cans of soda, or three cups of really strong coffee), which, according to Wikipedia, should be enough to induce caffeine intoxication.  The rambling flow of thought and speech is the part you should most look forward to - if I can get some of that going in blog form, this place is going to become really interesting.  Plus, there’s also a ton of other stimulants swimming around in there, so I should be in a really fun mood here pretty shortly.

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