faboo mama

Title: Los Angeles Meetup
Location: My house
Description: Los Angeles Meetup for Plurkers, Tweeters, FriendFeeds and Seesmicers
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2008-11-01

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Thank you and hope to see you there!

I just awoke to find a litle ‘US Elections’ tab on my plurk page. Curiosity took hold; I clicked through to a contest page. Plurk is offering ‘One Plurk, One Vote’. You go to a friend’s plurk page and you can vote for your candidate of choice.

You don’t have to be a US citizen, but you do have to have a Plurk account.

Clever.

As of this moment, the scores are McCain/Palin -16%, Obama/Biden - 84%.

So why don’t you visit my plurk vote page and register your voice.

This is going to be pretty short and too the point.

There’s been mandatory evacuations called for New Orleans. During a presser earlier in the day, Mayor Nagin and Gov. Jindal made it expressly clear that there will be no government provided shelters for those who choose to stay/can not afford to leave their homes. Or in Nagin’s words, ‘”You’re on your own.”

Social media has been, excuse the pun, atwitter on this all day long.

There is now a Ning community for all Gustav related posts.

Seesmic conversation on the hurricane.

Many of my remaining family members are already gone. I’ve heard from friends (online and meatspace) whose families have fled already, as Gustav is being called as worse than Katrina. I believe we all know that he levees will not withstand anything over a Cat3 storm, so this is pretty big. Let’s hope that Gustav loses strength before it makes landfall. There’s already been 78 deaths in the Caribbean. I pray there’s no more.

Last night, the GOP put the word out that they may postpone their Convention in St. Paul, Minneapolis in Hurricane Gustav hits the Gulf Coast.  Their reasoning?

Senior Republicans said images of political celebration in the Twin Cities while thousands of Americans flee a hurricane could be dubious. “Senator McCain has always been sensitive to national crisis,” said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, noting that the senator postponed announcing his presidential candidacy in 2000 because of the war in the Balkans. “We are monitoring the situation very closely.”

This would be admirable, but I think all remember how “sensitive” McCain was to the national crisis of Hurricane Katrina 3 years ago:

Sen. Obama is back in Springfield today to announce Sen. Biden as his running mate.  Sen. Obama announced his candidacy for president in Springfield back in Feb. 2007.

As for Biden, well there’s a lot to be said about that pick.  I don’t like Biden, but when you say your campaign is about changing the culture of Washington, the last thing you should do is pick a Senator who’s been in Washington for as long as I’ve been alive.  I’m 35. So today, we watch as Sen. Obama introduces Sen. Biden and see the verbal acrobatics of how Biden isn’t as entrenched in DC.

That’s why I’m ignoring you.  Well, that and the fact that I couldn’t access a damn self-hosted of MU Wordpress blog for the past week or so.  Craptastic stupidity I tell you!

Anyway, I still don’t have much to blog about.  My sister and family have gone back to France.  I got a new phone. I’m crackdicted to plurk. And I still need to use my plane tickets in the next 3 weeks.

To make it worse, nothing of interest has happened politically in like 3 weeks. Not a damn thing.

I’m bored.

I want these fools to pick their running mates already so that I can start mocking the bad choice.  I think that McCain is going to go with Gov. Crist, just based on his most recent stupid shallow comments on
what his VP should look like.  And now that I’ve found that Gov. Crist has gotten engaged to his beard, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a quick wedding before the end of August.

Other than that it’s all McCain saying something stupid, the media ignoring it, McCain surrogate saying something stupid, media almost ignoring it…Media is obsession on how to cover Obama says a lot more about their inherent ignorance and racism than any of the stupid articles from the spring could have.

So, blah, blah, blah….I’ll probably post some of my silly 12seconds.tv clips out of boredom.

Happy Birthday little girl. Mommy and Daddy can’t believe you’re 5 already. You’re such a little lady, so polite and funny, stubborn and friendly.

We love you.

There was a lunar eclipse tonight.  It seems that only me and maybe 40 other people in the world actually care about these things. At any rate, it was pretty cool for me.  Finally, that damned moon and the earth put on a show before 10pm, it was visible on the West coast AND there were no clouds.  That’s 3 for 3 right there.  Honestly, I’m sick and tired of staying up at 3am to look at a cloudy moon.

To make it even more magnificient, the moon was low and HUGE tonight.

This is just after we got home.

A little bit later, you can see the earth is halfway across the moon.

 Almost there.  I could see clouds rolling in from the northeast and I thought they’d obscure this view.

And scene.  It was a pretty fast moving eclipse and about 5 minutes after I took this photo, the moon disappeared because of the clouds.

For the past couple of years, my husband and I have been in love with geeking out on Google Earth.  For whatever reason, we’ve never done it together.  Last night, him and the little girl devised a game.  He found our house and then they pretend to take off into the stratosphere.  Then a click of the button, they come plummeting back to Earth, but are saved by splashing into the pool.  I joined in bring the boy with me.  OMG.  We must be geeks, but that was seriously fun.  We each had our own blast off and splash down noises.  I’m sure the neighbors were like, “What the hell could they possibly be doing?”  But in Spanish.

That is, I didn’t blog here, though I’ve been all over the intertubes today.  I just needed to chill and digest some of the stuff I’ve been reading.  I would start writing a political post, only to wind up searching for gardening info, then don’t get me started on gadgets.  Ya’ll are lucky, I only bore you with the political crap.  I can talk some gadgets too.  There’s just too much drooling involved at time.

I spend another day in my garden, and it’s nice to see the changes happening so rapidly.  Today, I took cuttings from my succulents so I can put some in the front yard.  This should be interesting as far as water usage is concerned.  I still have no idea how I’m running my drip irrigation to the front part of the yard.

Man, today everyone was grilling something.  I went to the store and bought some chicken thinking, “Oh yeah, it’s grill time!”  When I went out to finally  got outside to get the grill going, you can just smell all the meats cooking around the neighbhorhood.  Music was bumpin’…it was like July, but colder!

I’m actually going to be able to participate in Weekly Winners tomorrow.  I can’t believe it!  At first, I didn’t remember it until Monday, then my camera battery died, then I just wasn’t really taking photos.  Well, I got photos and I’m gonna remember!