Category — Rant

Just finished our league game tonight with Pi. It was one of the windiest games ever, not to mention frustrating. I called foul more times than I ever had in one game before. And it was all against the same person. I’m pretty sure that the person guarding me was on Temocil (for all you AD fans out there!). Side effects may cause numbness of the extremities.

Another player on the opposing team also had a side effect: hallucinations and therefore making terrible calls.

We ended up winning but it wasn’t super fun. It was so cold and people tend to get cranky in the wind.  I think it’s because the wind gets all in people’s heads and rattles around their brains.

Cute little Willow is attacking my foot and making this very difficult. Speaking of Willow, she has a big day ahead of her tomorrow: first shots.  I hope she handles needles better than I do!  We took her over to meet Bob, who is Jill and Mark’s cat. Mark has kindly offered to cat sit this weekend. By taking her to visit Bob we discovered that we have a bad kitten. She is very badly behaved and a huge trouble maker. Good luck and thanks in advance Mark.

Tonight we had another session of our training. Was a good session and by good I mean we got WORKED OVER. Lindsay and I have never really run intervals before. For htose that haven’t felt the pain.  Intervals (typically) are those exercises where you run a certain distance in a certain time and then have the same time to rest. Repeat way too many times….

The intervals in this case was two laps of 160m track in 70-75 seconds. Which I have no idea if that’s ‘good’ or not. Let me tell you though… it’s hard. Especially number 3, 4, 5 & 6.

Besides that I have a little rant.  My rant is how much the American Presidency Race (or whatever this candidate race is called) is costing… If we go to the CNN Election Center page we can see that Hillary Clinton has spent $80 MILLION and Obama has spent $85 MILLION! I also love the part when you break down the people who dropped out of the race.

• Edwards -> $36 Million
• Richardson -> $13 Million
• Dodd ->$10 Million
• Biden -> $10 Million
• Kucinich-> $3.5 Million

Did those last 4 really think they had a chance to be president? Seriously, did they?  Were they really that sure that they’d risk $3.5 million+ dollars on this? What a waste of money. And yes, I do understand the importance of this job.  However, maybe their should be some sort of cap on spending for a campaign.

Either way that’s $237.5 Million dollars worth of campaigning, SO FAR! And, I’m glad we’ll have to go through a similar situation when the democrats and republicans face each other. All I know for sure is that that money could feed one or two people….

End of rant.