Abbie's Real Life Blog

I’m going to stay away from the politics today (in this blog, anyway; I seem to be viewing CNN and reading blogs obsessively these days, and even dreaming about this election) as I said my piece yesterday and the speech last night was exactly as I suggested it would be.  She did great!  She’s a fantastic candidate!  Let’s build up expectations for her so that the GOP can’t cry foul, oh poor little woman can hardly be expected to handle big boy work, when she’s requested to do some, you know, interviews with real media and then, you know, debate with Biden next month.  (Oh, they’ll probably do that anyway.  Good old GOP.  It’s whiny until they do it, and then it’s unAmerican to disagree.)  (Actually, speaking of interviews, it will be interesting to see if the media deploy only women to do those interviews.)

Okay, I said I’d stop talking about it.  I will.  For now, anyway.

I started using Google Chrome yesterday, Google’s new web browser, and I like it.  It’s not nearly as clunky as Firefox, which I admire from a distance and recommend to family members but never use myself.  Also, unlike Firefox and pretty much all other non-IE browsers that I’ve ever used, it doesn’t seem to be allergic to MS Windows, although Hotmail doesn’t like it at all.  But then, that’s just not surprising.  (Hotmail is my junk mailbox, if you must know.)  The only thing that bothers me is that when I open a new tab, it opens this page that shows me all my most-visited websites and gives a search box for my search history only, not all of Google.  Which is frustrating, because my usual start page is Google so I now have to click on the Google bookmark to get to Google.  Just a tidbit of irritation.  Not too bad, all things considered.

The remains of Hurricane Gustav are pushing through the region, so it’s been raining steadily for a couple of days now and should stay rainy through the evening.  It also turned a bit chilly yesterday (which, in early-September-in-mid-Missouri terms, means sixty-five degrees) and today I busted out a sweater cardigan.  I like the chillier weather.  Late summer giving way to autumn giving way to winter… it’s my favorite time of year.  Not that it’s autumn yet.  We’ve got several more weeks of humid, hot weather in store for us, but it’s a nice little tease.

I am supposed to second-shoot a wedding this weekend, but I haven’t heard from the main photographer for a few days so maybe I am not on tap after all.  I am, however, shooting another solo wedding next Saturday, though it’s another small and nontraditional one.  And I might have my own second shooter if she decides it’s worth her time.  (It is that small and nontraditional.)  In fact, the fall is really filling up with stuff I have to do.  It’s frustrating to realize that all your weekends are booked for the next few months, especially when you had stuff you were thinking you’d like to get done, you know?

Ahhh!  I can’t not talk about the fucking election! Go Read: The lies and exaggerations from the speeches last night (from an AP reporter, thanks, not just some random blogger)!

And Jon Stewart uses the Republicans’ own bullshit against them. Not that that was too hard, really.

Maybe tomorrow, when McCain’s speech is over and playing against the clips of Obama on the Bill O’Reilly show, maybe then I can calm down a little bit. Gah.