Time marches on

Not a whole lot going on around here. Work is work, the gym is the gym and the office at home is slowly getting cleaned up. Its amazing how much paper a home office will generate and how much is tossed every day. Yes, we recycle all our paper, much of it shredded. Actually, given all the stuff we put in to the recycle bin, I think we are recycling about 50% of our total trash.

I did renew the warranty on my dell computer for another two years. It may seem silly to do so since the computer is two years old, but I prefer to keep them longer and this one has been in the shop once and if it needs to go in one time, the insurance will pay for itself.

Going to Vegas on Friday for 3 days. We asked my sister in law's which buffet would be best and I was surprised with the number of responses. Apparently Paris is no longer any good, Bellagio is good for breakfast but not worth it for dinner and consensus is Wynn is the best one to go to. I like the Paris buffet but haven't been there for a while and never been to the Bellagio or Wynn so may have to try them out.

Several items in the news today:

Sunday August 12 was the 65th anniversary of the Dieppe raid. For those who don't remember it, it was a disaster, the Canadians lost a lot of troops and the question is always, was it worth it. It may have been, but not sure we will ever know. It definitely helped change the planning for the D-Day invasion two years later and so helped to guarantee the Allied victory in World War 2. Hat tip Lucanne.

A story about Nat Adams and how his actions in World War 2 saved the life of George HW Bush. Read it. A man who did his duty and went on with life and never bothered to tell anyone what he did. An American Hero.

When California Democrats and Republicans agree on something, its usually safe to fear for your property or liberty. Last week Republicans started to gather signatures to change the way California allocates its electoral college votes from winner take all to allocation based on who won each Congressional district. If this is adopted, any presidential candidate will ignore San Francisco because it's electoral vote will go for the Democratic candidate. Likewise, Orange County will be ignored because it will go Republican. So each candidate will be able to ignore the State and take it for granted. Not a smart move.

Well the Democrats, not wanting to left out of looking foolish, have started to gather signatures for their own initiative. They want to allocate electoral college votes nationwide based on popular vote. So New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles will decide the elections and the smaller States would be ignored. How this would work would be to pass legislation telling the California members of the Electoral College to vote for the candidate who received the most popular votes in the nation regardless how the citizens of the State voted. So in the 2004 election, California voted for John Kerry, under this new plan, California would have gone to George Bush, local votes be dammed. Again, not a smart move.

Hopefully both will go down to defeat and if only the parties would be punished by the citizens for making these stupid suggestions.

And finally, data thieves hit Monster.com. So if you have a resume there, be prepared for spam (email, snail mail and phone).

Have a good day.