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Yes it is that quadrannial time again. I have been following both campaigns and primaries of both parties for as long as I can remember now. The primaries were facinating as well since both parties were electing their candidate. We’ve come down to two and then they chose running mates that were polar opposites of each other which was also fun. People are tired of the campaigns now but I feel like I should have helped out more. Maybe one of the local Connecticut campaigns but I couldn’t get into them. I wanted to volunteer at a polling station that uses electronic voting just to help with computer problems and such but when I checked on New Mexico and Colorado you had to be residents to work at those. 

Anyway the biggest change for me during this election is how much I’ve come to understand who I am and confirm my beliefs. I am a Texas style Conservative. Here they have this attitude of, “just leave me alone.” It’s the kind of attitude that they just want to be able to work hard but play hard as well and basically let us fix the problems we have ourselves. That is a beautiful attitude to have. I’m glad I will be here for the election. I think I know 3 people in CT that are voting the same as me but I sure don’t know anyone that agrees with me on everything. That being said and realizing I’m 110% Conservative I don’t agree with everything in the Republican party or with John McCain. Although I can’t think of a single issue I agree with Obama on more than McCain. 

So it’s no secret I’m voting for McCain and I doubt I will loose any friends over it. I’ll be watching the results come in tonight and will be working with my map on 270towin.com at the same time. It’s fun. We’ll see how it goes but at least I’ll be with family to cheer or sob with.

So it’s been yet again a long time since I updated and I never got my old posts back. I fear I may have lost it the posts forever. A quick update on a status of things if you have a desire to keep up. I had two brothers in Iraq a little while ago which when you tell people they tend to give me this “poor you” look. I could not be more proud of both of them. I do have another brother in Iraq-like weather in Phoenix but I’m sure sure that counts because he has air conditioning. I get to talk to him in some form online almost every day which I feel just lucky to have such cool siblings. This includes my sister that pwnd her Illinois state teacher exams recently. I guess you may be able to tell I’m getting a little home sick. So Monday I will pick up Chase from JFK and we’ll toot around the Big Apple for a bit. Then afterwards we’ll drive to Texas with a couple stops in Pennsylvania and Ohio to visit some of his friends. Also on this trip I will be picking up a canoe Desley bought on eBay and taking it home. Hopefully we will be able to take that baby on a little canoe trip. 
Update: I didn’t actually post this till I got home to Silverton. Great to see everyone. Chase was a great road trip companion. Driving with the canoe was fun.