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Friday I was talking with a friend and said I wasn't doing anything this weekend. I lied. Between the "how did I get here" concert on Friday night and riding the Ojai Valley Century yesterday, I had a pretty full weekend. But today, I did nothing. Well, not really nothing, because I spent the day playing with my new TivoHD. I installed it last weekend, and we've been using it all week, but Friday afternoon the Time Warner guy came and plugged in their multicast cable card, and Poof! Yay, Tivo with HD, baby. What could be better than that? I gleefully downloaded all the guide data for 400+ digital channels, and spent most of the day watching all sorts of random stuff. Track and field. Baseball. Old movies. Even a biography of Hedy Lamarr, who improbably combined being a beautiful actress with inventing spread spectrum encoding. Anyway it was a great way to do nothing all day.
But meanwhile, it was all happening! A busy weekend... I can't believe it, but the Democrats actually seem to be self-destructing in realtime. Unbelievable. Who could have believed six months ago that any Republican could have a chance against any Democrat? But somehow it has happened; John McCain cleanly emerged from the pack, and has moved steadily toward the middle (plus, he could be the Republican least associated with George Bush). Meanwhile Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have spent the year tearing each other down and committing unforced errors. Obama has now thrown his whole church under the bus, and is confronted with an Iraq dilemma, while Clinton wins big in Puerto Rico after losing the weird debate over whether to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan. At this point I can't possibly vote for either Obama or Clinton. There had to be some great Democrat candidates out there, but where are they?
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