Pawprints From Space

So today I was supposed to drive an hour-ish to go to the Relay For Life Winter Training. This is usually a fun event where volunteers from all over this part of the state get together and share ideas, attend meetings etc. It is kind of like a convention. Not going. Apparently there was an ice storm in the city where they are having this thing last night and since I no longer have a 4-wheel drive vehicle I am not risking it. Now I know what you're thinking, and you're right. 4-wheel drive is not helpful on ice. But it is helpful when you slide off into the ditch in getting you back out of said ditch. My little bitty Honda can not do that. Plus is it white so if there is a snow storm in the midst of all this no one would even be able to see me in the ditch until spring! But seriously, the American Cancer Society is not going to cancel this thing. The people putting it on went down there yesterday and stayed overnight. They don't have to travel. And who the heck cares about t...

Well I suppose I should tear myself away from that exciting new reality show currently airing on several networks at once: the 2008 Presidential Race. I admit it, I'm addicted. Not that I have been voting in Presidential elections for eons but seriously when is the last time it was this much - dare I say it? - fun? Here we are with Super Tuesday behind us and we still have a race, nay a dogfight, ahead on the Democratic side and the Huckster isn't bowing out yet on the Republican side. Heck, we could go all the way to the convention for a change and actually have it be a convention and not (sorry to borrow your phrase Huck but it is appropo) a corronation. Not that I want decisions to be made in the back room by the so-called super delegates and the party officials but wouldn't it be cool to be a delegate and actually have passionate discussions with other delegates? Damn! I wanna be a delegate!! This would be fun!!! Okay I work for people who are so Republican they ooze re...