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So, the girlfriend’s been sick the past couple days culminating in a fever of approximately 101.9 degrees fahrenheit…not fun. Luckily we had just picked up some new super-tylenol-fix-all medicine and her fever is now down to around 99 degrees. While I’m not one for over medication, three cheers for knocking her fever down so quick…I get so worried when she is sick like this.

In other news I finally broke down and re-organized my mountain of email to a much simpler, action based system. After following Merlin Mann’s 43folders blog for a couple of years, and talking with good friend Dr. Dave, I took the leap and am flirting with “inbox zero.” The quick version is that you move all of your old email into archived folders, and keep your inbox as small as possible, only filled with emails that you need to read or reply too. It’s a fantastic system and while I’ve only been using it for the past day or so I’ve become better about replying to friends and collegues emails by an order of magnitude. And it makes email into a sort of game to see if I can keep the inbox down. Wish me luck.

Anyway, just kind of up late staring at the walls listening to JoCo songs and planning world domination…something every guy is wont to do when his lady is battling a sinus cold. I thought I would post something a little more personal considering I’ve been posting so much technial and political stuff as of late. Until next time…courage.

As I poured out my breakfast today this little guy fell into my bowl of Cheerios! I can’t remember the last time I found a surprise in a box of cereal…now if only it was legos. ;)

p.s. Sorry the pic’s a bit blurry…I had to leave the packaging on for a friend of ours who “loooovvvessss hot wheels.”

Last night was one of the most thrilling events in my adult life. It wasn’t the hour long wait to even get inside the caucus, or pushing 5 cars out of the mud, or even being a part of a clear and amazing majority of Obama supporters filled with friends and co-workers. It was showing up to vote in something and actually having my voice matter on the national political stage.

All in all 2,218 people showed up at at my location, overwhelmingly for Obama. In fact, during the first alignment of the caucus Hillary was 20 votes short of being inviable, meaning that had Hillary started out with a 20-30 less people the entire State Congressional district would have gone Obama. Instead, after the Kucinick and Edwards people re-aligned themselves, Obama ended up with 9 delegates to her 2.

As you can see I snapped a few photos last night, however try as I might I couldn’t get a wide shot of the mass of democrats that showed up. For that, check out this panorama by an LJWorld photographer.

Also, Joel, formerly of my favorite LJWorld blog Cup o’ Joel, shot some video of the event for his new blog redblueamerica.com. He also liveblogged the event, which I attempted to do via Twitter but my phone’s lack of a keyboard made it a little cumbersome.

Here are a couple more links as to how the caucuses played out in Lawrence, and also in Hutchinson. I would have killed to see that kind of Democratic turnout in Hutch (my hometown), especially after reading some of my friends parents switching party affiliation just to have their voices heard in this Democratic primary.

I hope everyone who could got out and voted/caucesed last night. It was a big pain to wait 20 minutes in traffic to drive one mile, walk in the mud and snow, stand in line, stand around while everyone else waited in line just to stand in a big group and caucus. However, I couldn’t be happier with how the night turned out, or more excited to wait and watch Obama win the rest of the country!

p.s. Mike, I didn’t steal the headline from your facebook status…I actually wrote half of this last night until I fell asleep. Honest!