Frustrations

1. Missed the bus this morning, which means I walked to the tube station at 6:45 AM for no reason. Grumpy? Me? Nah.

2. Sorting out all the financial/housing/etc crap about returning to St. Johns would be a lot easier if I weren't seven bloody time zones away. Normally if I have to make an important phone call or something, I say, "Okay, I will do that first thing in the morning." Regrettably, "first thing in the morning" here is somewhere around 2:00 in the morning there. So, e-mail it is. Not as fast, but it saves me from sitting there listening to the phone ringing three dozen times, wondering why no one's in the office on a Monday morning.

3. Does anyone actually doubt that McCain will get the Republican nod for 08? The slamming they just took pretty much cements that they'll go with someone a bit more moderate (eg, not a psychopath). And I have no doubt that John McCain will beat anyone who the Democrats put up. So far, the only remotely impressive Democrat who looks hopeful is Obama. While I really like him and he seems refreshingly honest, he's inexperienced, and putting him across from McCain will only magnify that.

Don't get me wrong: Probably of all senators, if not all politicians in general, I respect McCain the most. I respected him a lot more before he backed down on the torture issue, but he's still one of those rarities that cares about the issues, not the party. I don't agree with him on a lot of those issues, but I certainly respect that he knows what he's doing and does what he feels is right.

Still, though. I can't shake the terrible feeling that the 08 race is going to end up being between a McCain/whoever ticket and a Clinton/whoever ticket, in which case, why bother campaigning? The republicans can just send Hillary a "thanks for handing us the presidency" card and walk in.


Not an annoyance: using the new beta version of Blogger, the comment notification email not only tells you what post is being commented on, but gives you both a direct link to the commenter's Blogger profile, but also a direct link to the commented post. Nice.