Bloggery, Boredom, Banality, and Biden

The morning: brief bloggery, washing dishes, blogging off and on, and worrying about client demands and my lack of focus on them.

The afternoon: lunch with my wife at a Mexican restaurant close to the office, a bit of work at the office on meeting client expectations, a 35 minute "quick" car wash that's still not complete (but I'm not $16.95 poorer, thanks to the wait), and a quick visit to a grocery store, Indian soup experimentation (and moments of delight attached thereto).

The evening so far: A quick trip with my wife to the bank to make a business deposit, a decision to buy fast-food hamburgers at Sonic instead of eating my wonderful soup (my wife's call...must be her mood), washing sweaters and long-sleeve knit casual shirts, and vain attempts to find something of interest on television so I can vegetate and be entertained. All that excitement has led to this post, an exercise in boredom. Actually, I'm just fatigued, I think, from the extra client work lately. My wife has been working 7 days a week, more hours than I put in...she is the only one with a good excuse for fatigue.

Speaking of boredom: I heard a snippet of something on NPR about boredom as I was in my car today. Something about Chairman of the Bored, I think. What banality.

Oh, Biden's comments are getting coverage. Frankly, I think they were taken out of context and were probably harmless, but we better hold our politicians to a higher standard if we want to hold on to any semblance of power and have the capacity to make change happen.

It's utterly shameless to support Biden's stupid lapse if we would not support a similar screw-up by a Republican. As much as I loathe Glen Beck on CNN, I did hear him comment on the matter and, gulp, agree with his position vis-a-vis stones and glass houses. But I suspect he changes his position to suit circumstances... Democrats and other liberals and centrists cannot afford such a luxury. We have to be steadfast, or we'll lose the hearts and minds of the masses, not to mention our own sense of morality.