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Moving n Stuff
Oct. 12th, 2009 07:01 amIf I'm going to miss one thing about CC, it's actually posting to an audience, but.. *shrug*
We had a busy weekend and we're more or less on track to be all packed up and ready to go by October 24th. We've hired the movers, as suggested by our friends Lynne and Amy, and we should have everything that's going into a box in a box by Friday night.
It's so weird to look around and see my life being slowly but surely boxed up and put into a closet where certain cats can't claw at the boxes.
There's not a whole lot else going on BUT the move at the moment. After the move, we'll probably be ready to start working on other things again, but for now, the move is all (with occasional sanity-keeping breaks.
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I want to touch on local politics for a bit.
In Virginia, it looks like McDonnell has a big lead over Deeds, and is probably going to cinch it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that McDonnell is our new governor and this is entirely the fault of Deeds' campaign staff.
I'll be honest. I don't see myself voting for Deeds this year. His campaign has been lousy. I still have no idea what Deeds would do FOR me/Northern Virginia. All he wants to talk about is McDonnell's twenty year old thesis which McDonnell's already said "Look, I was young and I was stupid and 20 years and 3 daughters later, I don't have the same attitude."
Deeds is running a negative campaign. Were his staffers not paying ATTENTION in 2008 when that didn't work for McCain? Did they not catch the part where talking only about how bad the other guy is without saying what YOU'LL do is bad politics?
It's as if Deeds expects that since we're Northern Virginians we'll simply vote for him because we're Democrats but.. I was in New York when Cuomo got ousted and Pataki got put in mainly because Cuomo made way too many assumptions about how Buffalo would vote. I know a number of Northern Virginians who aren't happy with the way Deeds has campaigned, my wife and I included (and my wife is more liberal than I am)
I'm calling this for McConnell.
We had a busy weekend and we're more or less on track to be all packed up and ready to go by October 24th. We've hired the movers, as suggested by our friends Lynne and Amy, and we should have everything that's going into a box in a box by Friday night.
It's so weird to look around and see my life being slowly but surely boxed up and put into a closet where certain cats can't claw at the boxes.
There's not a whole lot else going on BUT the move at the moment. After the move, we'll probably be ready to start working on other things again, but for now, the move is all (with occasional sanity-keeping breaks.
---------------------
I want to touch on local politics for a bit.
In Virginia, it looks like McDonnell has a big lead over Deeds, and is probably going to cinch it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that McDonnell is our new governor and this is entirely the fault of Deeds' campaign staff.
I'll be honest. I don't see myself voting for Deeds this year. His campaign has been lousy. I still have no idea what Deeds would do FOR me/Northern Virginia. All he wants to talk about is McDonnell's twenty year old thesis which McDonnell's already said "Look, I was young and I was stupid and 20 years and 3 daughters later, I don't have the same attitude."
Deeds is running a negative campaign. Were his staffers not paying ATTENTION in 2008 when that didn't work for McCain? Did they not catch the part where talking only about how bad the other guy is without saying what YOU'LL do is bad politics?
It's as if Deeds expects that since we're Northern Virginians we'll simply vote for him because we're Democrats but.. I was in New York when Cuomo got ousted and Pataki got put in mainly because Cuomo made way too many assumptions about how Buffalo would vote. I know a number of Northern Virginians who aren't happy with the way Deeds has campaigned, my wife and I included (and my wife is more liberal than I am)
I'm calling this for McConnell.
