View From the Bushes

I went home early yesterday to help in the FEMA-run disaster clean-up that was taking place at our house. Actually, it wasn't as bad as I thought, nor anywhere near as bad as it could have been -- there were a couple of times when the cleaner combination I was using seemed to be taking off several layers of skin (my right hand still feels like it's been sanded) and when the fumes from the chemicals brought me close to passing out. But like I said, it could have been a lot worse. On that subject I dropped my car off at that mechanic last night. I just got off the phone with him; it looks like another $400 or so there...

Other than that, I did watch most of the vice-presidential debate last night. I have a hard time forgiving Edwards for being a trial lawyer, though maybe that's a case of hating the player when I should be hating the game, and though Cheney has done a lot of things I don't like either, he still strikes me as something of the only adult on either ticket. In general I'd have to agree with those that said that Cheney may have had a slight edge in the first half when it was about foreign policy, while Edwards seemed to hit his stride a little more in the second half. Looking at the news, it seems to me that the consensus is that Cheney won, but by a fairly narrow margin.

As you might imagine, beyond the disasters of yesterday I don't have much else to say, and looking around it seems like a pretty slow day elsewhere on the internet as well, though I did come across an story yesterday about a car whose cruise control got stuck at 120 mph. Interestingly, my first reaction was wouldn't it be cool to have an excuse to drive down the freeway at 120 miles per hour?

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Ross