Great - now my vote won't count

The presidential election came up today during a call with my old neighbor Wendy Wozniak... i told her i was going to vote for Obama. She said "we'll i'm going to vote for McCain, so our votes will cancel each other out!" sigh.

Beer in the brown bag

Jana was deep into her new favorite show Gossip Girl - so i hit the beach with my 40oz Corona wrapped in a brown paper bag. My bag caused quite a stir with the wine drinking beach crowd. "yes, we're technically in Burien, but do you have to use a brown paper bag?" "what's the bag for anyway?" the questions went on... i made my case... the bag keeps my hand warm and the beer cold. pure genius. The wine drinkers were not convinced. Then Pam brainstormed a new twist on the old bag... "you could make coozies that look like brown bags, put them in your freezer, and then you could carry around a frozen-brown-bag-coozie!" .... hummmm... i don't think that's gonna fly in the hood.

my virtual self - was all but dead

Drew woke me from my slow-blog-o-death... my virtual self was almost dead. severely neglected. But, his public ribbing was just enough to kick-start my engine.

OK, SO I'M BACK.... and now for a quick story about puke.

Wow. Sunday night. 4am. blowing chunks. I had clams with garlic, olives stuffed with garlic, ginger soda (super strong), rum, olive and garlic dip, some eggs, a beer... and POW. i blew up.

Revolutionary Meeting Room

We decided to take an alternative approach to the stuffy CTIA conference room... CTIA is a mobile event, so why not have a mobile conference room? :-) Our 2 days at CTIA are packed with meetings - this RV should make our meetings fun, productive and memorable!

And yes, if you need a ride between parties, give us a call. :-)

Cooking age: 21

While cooking dinner last night i realized i have the cooking skillz of a 21 year old. Remember the culinary gut-bombs you made back then? That's my level. My standard meal when i was 21 was a package of instant Lipton noodles (4 great flavors) and a fried plain white chicken breast. BAM! that's dinner. If i felt fancy, i'd toast a slice of white bread and add a dash of garlic salt. gourmet.

Fast forward 15 years... Jana's been cooking the entire time... but my cooking ability has stayed the same age...

damn. i forgot to vote.

This is embarrassing. ridiculous really. and yet, somehow predictable.

I was so busy helping everyone at the caucus that i forgot to check-in with my group and cast my vote!

At the end of the caucus, when i finally realized my mistake, i told myself "ahhh, I'm sure it didn't matter. it was just one vote." So i went to my precinct committee officer and asked about the results of our group... ohhh crap... one more vote for Obama would have changed the outcome of our group! Had i voted, Obama would have won another delegate (and Clinton one less). Crap. my vote does count! next caucus i'll try to remember to vote. ;-)

34th Precinct Caucus Results

34th Precinct - unofficial results:
Obama: 21 delegates (53.8%)
Clinton: 15 delegates (38.5%)
Uncommitted: 3 delegates (7.7%)

Today I helped my buddy Jeff Upthegrove with the 34th Precinct Democratic Caucus. It was great fun. There must have been 400 people.

My job involved running from group to group to calculate their delegate count. It was interesting to see the passion, the arguments, the negotiations and final results.

During the event a woman asked me...

Woman: What's your title?
Me: Uhhh. I'm just a helper-guy.
Woman: That's not impressive enough.
Me: Yes, you do have a point. (then i realized she was the secretary who was taking minutes for the meeting)
Woman: Can you come up with a better title?
Me: Ok, I'm the Precinct Caucus Calculator Administrator.

And yes, that's going on my resume. cause it's official. and impressive. ;-)