Five…
Five more days, we’re down to one hand!
Here’s a goodbye to George from The Economist
The frat boy ships out
Few people will mourn the departure of the 43rd president
1/15/09
Thanks to Nu for the Twitter share
Six…
Just six days to go, you still have time to plan a party. We’ll behaving ours on Monday, to ring out Bush’s last night in office and leave us Inauguration to shake off this eight-year hangover and enjoy the inauguration on TV (which is as close as we’ll be getting). Here’s a fun web site to help you plan your own Bush Bash for next Monday…
Seven…
One week… sounds like a song.
Enjoy this collection of photos from Rolling Stone
President Bush, Thanks for the Memories
Thanks to Ken for sharing!
UPDATE: My blogging daughter noted that her most recent posting was her 100th, so I decided to check the count on my blog, and as it turns out, this is my 500th blog post! Congrats to us!
Eight…
A nice find courtesy of AmericaBlog,
David Letterman’s Top Ten Moments from the Bush Years:
Eight more days…
Nine…
OK, it may look like 9 and a half fingers, but it’s meant to be just ‘nine’, as in the number of days left until Bush is gone. The hands in the photo are mine, from a blog post I wrote more than four years ago about the nine trick. Then it was about math, today I’m just plain counting down.
10 More Days
We can do it now on two hands… count down the days until the end of an error. It’s been a long, terrible, painful wait… and now at last, the end is in sight.
Let’s count it down…. 10!!
Bodysurfing President Elect
Try and imagine any former President bodysurfing. You can’t can you, the images just don’t mesh. Now watch this video. You can’t help but feel good knowing our next President can do this. Who will be the lucky Secret Service body surfing detail? Nice wave Mr. President!
thanks to Neal for sharing!
Looking Back & Looking Forward
On New Year’s Day, it feels appropriate to look back and take some stock of the year that has just passed, and look forward to the year ahead. No major deep thoughts here, just a checklist and a draft ‘to-do’ list.
Looking Back at 2008
– lost 25 pounds
– ran a Half-Marathon, Marathon, and a 5k
– got a new dog
– worked very hard locally to help elect our new President
– first time visits to Austin, TX and Denver, CO (loved them both)
Looking Forward to 2009
– organize and enjoy a local inaugural ball
– run a Half-Marathon and a Triathalon
– paint the kitchen
– take a trip home to Huntington Beach, CA this summer
– send my oldest child off to college
20 Days
At last! We can count the remaining days of the Bush Presidency on our fingers and toes!
Take a look at this goodbye from Tom Tomorrow (it’s worth jumping through Salon’s advertising hoop to reach the comic)…
The Great T-Shirt Census
I often wonder if I might suffer from some degree of OCD. The latest evidence of which is today’s project, sorting and cataloging my t-shirts. I have too many t-shirts, and it would not be an unreasonable chore to look through them for ones that I might throw out. But I couldn’t just do that. T-shirts are one of my primary pieces of clothing. I have acquired those that I have over many years, and most of them have some sort of personal or historical significance, at least to me. Before any purge, there must first be a census!
So what did I find? Here’s some results from my T-shirt Census:
Total Count: 54
Type Breakdown:
Political: 14
I acquired a few in this last year, my favorite of which was this Obama/Biden shirt purchased at the Democratic Convention in Denver. I attribute Obama’s historic win in Virginia to my wearing of this shirt while running in my Northern Virginia burb. But I also love this bush-basher.
Sports Related: 17 (5 Chicago Cubs)
Music/Band: 1 (wow, this is a change. In my younger days, just about all of my shirts were concert tees).
Blank: 3 (two orange, why?, and one single plain white tee).
Top Colors:
White & Grey: (combined total of 21 shirts)
Tie-Dye: 2
Top Brand:
Hanes & Gilden: 7 each
Age:
There are two that date to the 80s. One of which, I’m embarrased to say is a black tee that reads ‘Hustler Muff Dive’, which I think I acquired in high school and I hope I’ve never worn, but just never through out either. The other says, “Miru Mir”, Russian for “Peace on Earth” from the foreign language house I lived in off campus at UCSB.
My favorite in the batch is one of the oldest. It’s a black t-shirt from the Internet World Conference I attended in 1995. The shirt has held together enough to wear, but the fabric has achieved a unique softness that feels nothing like the heavy cotton it once was.
What other insights did I gain? Probably just that I need to do a better job prioritizing my tasks. Feel free to browse my list of tee shirts here, and see what insight you can learn about me from it.