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That’s how I was greeted as I answered the door last Saturday. It was around 7 ish, and we were getting the girls ready for bed. As those who know me can imagine, my patience for door to door salesmen is premised upon 2 things; entertainment value and my interest level in the particular snake oil being sold.

Alex was not off to a great start.

“I’m here today to talk to key homeowners in the neighborhood about…..” I was already looking for an opportunity build a trap door underneath him as he droned on and on about why APX security systems were this and how I could really use that, and then, quite unexpectedly, his entertainment quotient went through the roof.

“Let me walk you though how these systems functuate.”

My ears perk up. “I’m sorry?”

“How they functuate? How they work.” He says.

Me: “Yeah, got it.”

“These systems protect your home in all sorts of emergencies… fires, heath emergencies, bugleries…”

Me: “Bugleries?”

“Um, burgaries. You know, a break in.”

Me: “What about a robbery?”

“Same thing, right?”

Me, trying to wrap this up: “Well, no… Do you have a brochure I can have?”

“Well I have these here, but we only give them out to customers.”

Me: “So I have to buy your system to get a brochure to read about your systems?”

“Yes.”

I proceeded to give him some line about needing to go and how I would look them up on the web, yadda yadda yadda. I can only hope that in anyone DID order from this clown they sent someone a tad more intelligent to installate a functiating unit.

Due to a filing error at my new job, according to my health insurance, for the next 4-7 days (until Oxford can get it fixed) I’m now considered a woman.

I hope the scapula isn’t cold.

I usually don’t dabble in politics on this blog, but… I was watching some of the non stop CNN coverage last night and I was struck by what has become something of a theme amongst the never ending slew of talking heads these news shows roll out as ‘experts’ to analyze political races. The topic being discussed was how if Obama were to win the nomination, Clinton supporters would somehow vote for McCain out of protest. I find the notion laughable for a number of reasons, but watching Obama give his Iowa speech I realized that this was the first time in a long time I felt that this country could actually be ready for REAL and MEANINGFUL change. To me, the real disaster of the Bush administration is not the war, the deconstruction of the Constitution, the economic filings or any other headline du jour, but rather the extinguishing of the flame of the idea that is America. This government used to be an instrument for good, a hope for the world. But now? I’m not so sure. How can you watch Obama speak and not like him? I’m talking to you Clinton supporters. I realize you’d rather have Ms. Clinton, but could you really vote McCain after hearing this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcIRsLRBdgU 

So I’ve been out of commission for a while, but promise to write about the curent goings on in the Evans household. Here’s what’s been up (with more details to follow later)

• Moved back into the house after firing my contractor and having him make threats against my unborn child
• Starting a new job today, so in turn, I left the old one
• Began trying to get my youngest to sleep in a bed (from a crib) so not getting a ton of sleep

Coffee, my friend, don’t leave me.

From the LA times in February (link)

“The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances.

The surprise assertion from the Bush administration reopened a debate that many in Washington had considered closed. Two laws passed by Congress in recent years — as well as a Supreme Court ruling on the treatment of detainees — were widely interpreted to have banned the CIA’s use of the extreme interrogation method.

But in remarks that were greeted with disbelief by some members of Congress and human rights groups, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that waterboarding was a legal technique that could be employed again “under certain circumstances.”

What’s the big deal, you ask?

Have a lot of stuff going on, will bring you all up to speed soon. In the mean time, here’s a scary article about how hospitals are demanding up front payments for critical patients without enough health care coverage.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120934207044648511.html?mod=2_1566_leftbox