Presidential Primaries and other things

So I am currently watching millions of dollars being blown on the Presidential primaries. Touring around the country, democrats and republicans fight between themselves to choose their presidential candidate. Oddly in some states they let only party members vote – in others they don’t. Surprisingly there isn’t even that much clarity around Clinton or Obama. I read one commentator who said he pitied anyone who came between the Clintons and presidential power………that, I guess, is part of the problem. Nice dilemma for the voters; white woman, black man – I’m desperate to know how the southern states vote!!!
Life is busy and the weathers been trashy (damn cold too). Today is lovely and I am working at home. It’s Martin Luther King day on Monday – Cisco have it off but I have one meeting I have to attend (on the phone of course, very much the done thing at Cisco you can go to a meeting and find there are more people on the telephone than in the room). So I can do it from home, which is a bonus.
Starting to gear up for Spain and feeling very excited about going to Barcelona and the very stylie B&B in the mountains that Ruth has chosen for her four day celebration. So far planning to land, go to B&B hang out for four days then back to Barcelona for a few days then back here – 8/9 days all up. Can’t complain about that!
Went to Cirque de Solei last weekend – very cool.

Random stuff

Okay so this is kind of creepy and kind of cool (in that creepy cool way.........). The NY Times article titled "In A Blog, A Military Man Writes About His Own Death" is about a US Army Major who got posted to Iraq and started a blog (that then moved onto a news site). Before he left he wrote a final entry to be posted if he was killed. He was and this story is about his final entry. It's weird to read and then not. He says he likes to have the last word - so he does.
Weather here has been hellish for the last four days. Don't believe that "it never rains in California". We've had three storms in four days. The place is sodden and many slips. Driving over the infamous 17 is somewhat (but not much) short of terrifying (okay exaggerating and I did manage to not drive home on Friday night........luckily......as it turned into a four hour delay for my rideshare who did have to drive back to Santa Cruz.). Brownouts are common and appear to be taken in stride. So much for the modern western world. The weather appears to be coming right but not before Sharons pool came close to overflowing and has turned an odd shade of green (pool guy will fix it but it makes for an odd backyard feature right now).
Back at work full time, been out socializing with Sharon's friends and generally happy in my world.