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Yesterday was Scott’s sister’s birthday. To celebrate, we went to see Darcelle XV & Co., a mainstay of ~40 year old women’s entertainment. At least, that’s what I gathered from the crowd. It was a lot of fun, and despite our being roughly half the age of most of the other patrons. There was a small part of me that was wondering how Rowdy Roddy Piper was doing with his comic debut just a few blocks away. I’ll just have to assume he was awesome.

I was tempted to buy the Polaroid photo they take as you enter with Darcelle himself because my mom also has a photo with Darcelle and my late, great aunt Irvene. That’s three generations! Alas, it was taken before the entire group was there, and $10 for a Polaroid is a bit steep.

A coworker also told me about the day the both Darcelle and his entourage were visiting Rock Creek campus for one celebration, and members of the Bush cabinent and secret service were also there. He said the mix made for an entertaining picture, especially because the girls in Darcelle’s entourage were taller than the secret service agents.

I’ve been having trouble relaxing lately. It may have to do what 51% of Americans see as important, or it may have to do with confusion over what the heck happened. Michelle keeps reminding me to take a break from news, issues, etc. that aggravate me and thus interrupt what she’s doing. But its hard. Especially with hope that some great plot or ruse surfaces before the Monday after the second Wednesday in December.

I guess I should relax and partake in some liberal media.

I know Buy Nothing Day isn’t until the 27th, but I’m in serious need of a Think Nothing Day right about now.

Hilary and her friend Emily moved to Portland this weekend to seek new fortunes. Yakima seems to do weird things to people, and I’m glad they chose Portland. They’re in a cool neighborhood in Macadam, and can see the river from their apartment. And they both seem to have some form of employment lined up, which is pretty amazing. Welcome!

My father-in-law stopped by on his way back from a fishing trip and gave us a large quantity of individually wrapped king salmon. A few hours later, an explosion across the street and the loss of power in the neighborhood suggested it might have been the wrong time to get a freezer full of fish.

Luckily, PGE was here and had the transformer fixed in less than an hour. I’m not sure I could have eaten all that salmon, especially if I had to keep all that beer from going bad first.

I know they’re not good for you, but I love a good rigid bristle toothbrush. They just seem so much more efficient.

One down, one to go.

Although I’m glad the Red Sox won, I’m almost as excited that the Yankees lost. Now that one evil empire has fallen, lets have another. yeah, you know who I’m talking about Rudy.

I loathe oldies radio more than just about all other uses of the FM band. I hate it even more when its piped into the bus and you’ve no escape from the over played music, droning yet upbeat chatter, dumbed-down political advertisements, and furniture sale commercials. We’re waiting to merge into a mass pile of cars on the interstate and I can only bring comfort by remembering that I’m “ridin’ on a bus.”

On a lighter note, I just got ready for visiting the doctor like I was preparing for a date. Is that normal? This is only my second official doctor’s appointment.

Oh, I guess there was that time back in 4th grade and I was wearing my best tiger striped purple briefs. In my defense, I wasn’t expecting to go to the doctor, I chose them for comfort. Nor was I expecting the doctor to know the name of the cute girl in the class and goad me about dressing for her.

I guess this is another part of the mother’s wisdom of always wearing clean underwear. You should always wear non-incriminating undies as well on the off chance that you’re doctor is also your friend’s dad.

The debate left me annoyed. But it also left me with these little contradictory boils that have been festering for the last couple days:

• People blindly recite that Kerry has no record, yet turn a blind eye to Bush’s record over just the last 4 years.
• Fundemental Christianity seems to be the biggest proponent for, and biggest threat to democracy.
• Republicans are interested in Foreign Policy
• John Kerry is Far-Left (see political compass ).
• The security of America lies overseas.
• The Democrats look like fiscal conservatives.
• Bush wants to know how Kerry is going to pay for stuff

It appears to me that the ditto-head is still very much alive and well.