The Week in Review

Ugh. I know I've been really lax in blogging as of late, but really. . .it's been kinda hectic 'round these parts.

Fall Break was last weekend, a rather nice departure from Midterm Break as an undergrad. Here, we get TWO days off instead of just one. Yeah, I'm really living la vida mocha these days.

Fall Break was rather uneventful. . .which is exactly the way I needed it to be. I sat around on Thursday, went to a few meetings, watched too much TV and cleaned the house for Nena. She got home on Friday to a relatively organized and normal house, which is the least I can do for her. She's on the road for work from Sunday-Friday. I can only imagine how draining it is to go from hotel room to hotel room on the other end of the state. She travels Liberal to Wichita; Hutchinson to OKC on a weekly basis, yo. To help relieve the soul-sucking I make sure the dishes are clean and the floors vacuumed when she does get home. Give her something to come home to other than her own bed. . .and a lack of room service. Yknow, maybe life on the road a'int so bad.

Weekend went by too quickly. I really need to remember how to do work on the weekends. As it is right now, I work so hard all week that I want to check out for a few days by the time Friday afternoon rolls around. Add in the fact that Nena's actually home and you have a really unproductive slump that ends when Nena's out the door on Sunday afternoon. I know I'd have to work less during the week if I managed to work during the weekends, but it's just a hard thing to do.

Saturday, Nena wanted to by a TiVo so I dragged her down to DAS ’ļBERB’ļY as quickly as I could. I mean, when the wife decides she wants a TiVo, it's my obligation as a guy to get her one before she changes her mind, right? In addition to Artoo (yes, I named it before Nena could. . .I suck) we also bought Nena a new cellie. Her Sprint plan is FINALLY up and so she's switched back to Verizon. Yes, I know it's my fault she switched from Sprint to Verizon (and now back) but it really did make sense at the time.

Dear lord, how much does Sprint's cell coverage suck? SOOOO much. Fewer dropped calls my ASS. If I ever run into that Sprint PCS guy I'm SO kicking his trenchcoat-wearing ass. Ugh. Not that Verizon is mindblowingly amazing. . .but it's a whole lot better than the crap service we used to have.

The week rolled on and apparently my dad bought himself a new car. He'd been talking/threatening to do so for a really long time and I'm glad he finally did. The man hasn't had a new car in 30 years (if ever, now that I think about it) and he deserves it. As far back as I can remember he's sacrificed himself to provide for the rest of us, and now he gets a chance to actually reap the benefits of all his hard work for himself. Whenever there was a new car in the house, it always went to Mom, while he drove her old car around. . .yeah, the big guy deserves this one.

He bought a 2004 Nissan Murano, fully loaded. Thing has heated fucking seats, yo. I'm really happy for him, it had 6 miles when he took it for the test drive and 10 when he drove it off the lot. Yeah, it's a big, gas guzzling SUV (It gets 20mpg- city 24mpg-highway) and for some reason the 2005s aren't out yet. . .but it's a hellasweet car, something Papo deserves. . .and it's got a really cute nickname. They've been calling it the Cruz ZaMurano. Enough of you will get that, I hope, to make it worth mentioning. (I'm looking at you Robert and Azu. . .)

That's really the rest of the week. Nena and I are off to a wedding in NC in a few hours, and I'll be back to the grind on Sunday. I'm taking a load of papers to grade (WHOO!) with me. Someone remind me to blog about TiVo ownership at some point. It's. . .interesting.

And now, with a few days left until election day. . .I present to y'all two different websites.

Electoral Vote.com
These guys have taken state by state polling data to predict how the Electoral Votes are stacking up. Their methodology seems a bit shaky to me. Someone want to actually do the work to verify this for me? It's not the way the compile their data, but rather who they get their data from. . .

The next one I stole from CK. . .or was it OZ? I dunno, it comes to me via kVo but I'm sure they'd be happy that I'm spreading the word.

Votergasm.com (Really not terribly work friendly.)
Basic premise? Don't vote on Nov 2nd, no sex for you. I signed up as an American Hero. :)

Nothing really methodologically sketchy here. Maybe kinda raunchy. . .but a bit entertaining. Someone remind me to buy a Republicans for Voldemort shirt one of these days. . .when I have the money for such frivolity.