I went to Target last night as my big activity. There were as many young nauseating couples there as there would be at a movie theater. There is no way to escape…people…except by staying at home. I splurged. A splurge these days is defined as purchasing anything I don’t absolutely need. I bought a new bedsheet set. That and some other stuff added up to $67.

This afternoon, I went to Southpoint to get some lunch and kill some time. I decided I needed some shorts, since most of my shorts don’t fit as well as I’d like. I went into American Eagle, and I was promptly offered assistance by no fewer than four different high school retail tarts. 90% of the store populations was under 18. I’m too old to shop at these mall stores. And I’m probably too old for $35 cargo shorts. But I grabbed a $12 polo shirt. I went to Sears next, because shorts are shorts are shorts, as long as they are made decently, and I found a decent enough pair of shorts (why is it a pair of shorts) for about $12 on sale.

In an ok mood because I know I’ll be headed out later, probably to dinner with J&J and H&C and possibly to see Manchurian Candidate or Bourne Supremacy.

Next weekend, Jenn will be here, and I’m looking forward to that as long as she behaves and doesn’t start verbally beating me up.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush did not see the speech.
“He went to sleep last night. That was a late speech,” McClellan told reporters, but he said Bush had “read some of the coverage.”

A guy trying to hold on to the most powerful position on the planet cannot stay up to watch the speech of his rival? He’s going out on the stump and claiming things about Kerry without having listened to Kerry’s ideas. What kind of yokel wants such a ignorant, pompous guy leading the country?

Coincidentally, Bush also slept through the days January 20 – September 10, 2001…

I have an ankle sprain, but my only prescription is to do stretches. All of the running around with Duffy was the worst thing for my foot.

I got to work at 9:45, but I’ll leave soon to go to see the doctor about my foot. It’s gotten to the point that I cannot walk on it, so time to spend money on copays, a brace, whatever. I don’t exercise much anyway, but it’s a bit more difficult when I can’t put pressure on my foot.

Meanwhile, I got a call from the HR person at Strategic. She wants to discuss my resume. Oy vey. When I sent them my resume, I figured they wouldn’t call me. I’ve been getting my mind into the mode of trying to find work at a non-profit. I suppose I’ll see how this conversation goes before trying to figure out what my mind should be thinking.

It’s late, so I’m not feeling up to commenting, other than that Kerry’s speech was powerful and inspiring. Politics will continue to aggravate me in the months ahead. I’d love for Kerry to get a 60-40 lead, but that is unlikely. If it remains close, every conservative jab that Kerry is a flip-flopping liberal is going to piss me off. Perhaps I’ll write some more tomorrow; perhaps not.

Because the networks are showing Amazing Race and Law & Order:SVU, millions of Americans are never going to hear Barack Obama’s amazing speech. And they’re not going to learn about embyronic stem cell research from Ron Reagan’s powerful presentation. And they have no f’n clue what’s going on in the world. It’s f’n appalling. And CNN runs a news crawl that includes such tidbits that Jenny McCarthy has a new sitcom coming, as if people who are watching are going to be bored lest they have garbage news to distract them. I’m so inspired by all that I see from Boston on the stage and in the crowds, and I have to believe that there are millions of Americans who would be, too, if only they were watching. But the news media and the powers that be that control them and the indifferent Americans they cater to, they all disgust me.

Wow. Clinton was awesome last night speaking to Democrats, but Obama was brilliant in speaking to all Americans. I’m not a positive person for the most part, and it takes a lot for a positive message to overcome my cynicism of the syrupy and the cliched. I loved his refrain that we are the United States of America. No one can claim Bush is a uniter, not now. Obama will be a VP or presidential candidate someday…

It wasn’t…oh, it just stopped…I was gonna say that it wasn’t until around 4:45 that T’s computer stereo began blasting music. But I had no tolerance when it started. I just went outside an observed the thunderstorm going on right now and tried to contemplate whatever it is that my life is right now. But then I came back in, and the music was still going, but then it stopped. But I had no work left in me to do anyway.

This is one of those jobs that if I left and the next job sucked as well, I’d wonder why I couldn’t handle this job better and why I didn’t just stay put.That’s been the case with most of my jobs, going back to high school. Why couldn’t I put up with this? or that? or them?

Anyway, I will leave in a few minutes, and drive back to Apex for one more night with Duffy. And more watching of the Dem convention by myself.

Jason, Dave, etc. have planned a poker night for tomorrow. First of all, there’s a Kerry for Durham meeting, which I may or may not go to. And second, I’ll just want to watch more convention stuff. And I won’t want to hear about my friends’ disinterest.