Friday Already?

I woke up thinking of The Village People, the tune of In The Navy going through my head. We want you as a new recruit! I suppose my generation has much to answer for to the fresh one that's already taking over, but I like to think that The Village People is something we can be proud of. One time, we were out, and I saw a guy in uniform standing next to a construction worker. Look, I said, part of the Village People. My daughter didn't get it, but my wife thought it was pretty funny.

Speaking of whom, last night she went out to dinner with people from EDS to celebrate the thirtieth (!) anniversary of one of her co-workers. The person in question has had a tough life - divorced, then lived with someone who died, then lived with someone who ditched her - and she's come up through the ranks from a computer operator to systems engineer (which is what EDS still calls its technical specialists who install and maintain the software; screw what the real engineers think about the use of the name). She can be bitter -- apparently, she feels that in any layoff, she'd be the first to go, which is what everyone there feels, even their universally acknowledged technical guru; but in her case, she's probably right. Not because she ought to go, just because the feeling is that layoffs are done without rhyme or reason, and as she would be the selectee in a corporate game of Which Of These Is Not Like The Others, she'd probably be the one.

I baked those brownies last night. Turns out if you chill them, they're considerably easier to eat -- though correspondingly harder to cut. The recipe had said to cut while warm, and I tried, but they were literally molten in the middle -- and if you wait for the molten magma to solidify into lava, the edges are like rock. Yet another technique that I'll likely not learn because I won't be going to the CIA course. Ah, me.

I am amazed to discover that there are people who really don't like Obama -- not just prefer Clinton -- that, I can undersand -- but actively don't like. And I'm even more amazed to find that there are people -- a great many of them -- who'd vote for McCain, despite his stated eagerness to carry on the policies of the Bushman. I am amazed by that. What are these people thinking? I'd really like to know. Not so much the we gotta sport the presdent, you betcha, folks, and not the Deep Thinkers, who could make a case for supporting anyone, but the real people -- why do they support him? What do they see there that they like? What do they see that I'd like? I have to admit, I probably couldn't sell them on Obama, so why do I assume that if they can't convince me, they must be intellectually weak? I also wonder: you see candidates at rallies, and they're always talking to people who support them. Why aren't there rallies for people who don't support you, just so they can hear what you have to say? I know, thats expecting too much. After all, did I go to the Chelsea Clinton deal? No, I did not. Would I go to a McCain one? No way -- but all of that is because there's no substance there, its usually fluff and how wonderful life would be if everyone just went along with me. Obama doesn't do that -- though as things continue, I think he's starting to.

My wife's working from home today. I always like that, even though I grouse that while she's working in the library, I can't use the desktop PC to autodownload porn -- and as the House character occasionally says, it won't download itself. Still, having her around is worth any manner of inconvenience -- and besides, they'll make more!