I'm thinking picking Palin was mostly a good choice, she may get some HRC partisans, she upholds McCain's maverick image, and she's not Huckneyman. On the other hand, she's just as experienced as Obama, and has a good chance of becoming President.

I'm still recovering from my trip to Cleveland. I rented a nice HHR and my coworker and I drove down Monday, and spent many hours at the loud, smelly print shop. The company is the biggest in their narrow marketing niche, I found it interesting. I won a coin toss and got to drive back Wednesday afternoon, 5 hour of the Dead kept me focused and moving. I never ran into Bob Abooey, though the print shop was in a rough neighborhood, perhaps he was one of the bums looking for change.

I had three good beers, a Leinie's Summer Wheat, a Great Lakes Moondoggie, and a Great Lakes Dortmunder. 

I read half a book about Von Braun, it was thick, but I got past the interesting stuff in Nazi Germany. He should be the patron saint of Slashdot, at the time in Germany he was amoral and only interested in rockets. I never got to his conversion, maybe I'll take it out again.

Seven year old has been back to school since Wednesday, twelve year old starts the Wednesday after Labor Day, but already got her class schedule, she's taking Latin and Honor's courses. She's only in one or two classes with newspaper_girl, but has a different girl from her school in homeroom. Apparently the open house was very disorganized, no surprise.

Last weekend we did Seabreeze, due to scheduling difficulties it coincided with $corp day, and we ended up at the picnic table adjacent to my boss. We were too busy with our respective kids to talk much. Last Sunday twelve year old finally got to go to the $Porsche's lake cottage, she had wanted to all summer but again, schedules were conflicting.