I had the distinct pleasure in taking part in Community Organizer training this past weekend put on by the Moses Organization, an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation. As some of you may know, the Gamaliel Foundation is where President-Elect Barack Obama first got started as a community organizer on the south side of Chicago. In fact, Mike Kruglik, the man […]

As I have mentioned in some of my previous posts, I and a few others in my local area that were involved in the Obama campaign have been staying in contact and have a had a couple of meetings. Turns out some stuff I wrote over at the Daily Kos got noticed by a reporter from the Boston Globe. I […]

This is kind of a big deal so I’ma brag on my awesome, talented and sexeh wife. As I wrote before, Barack Obama was given one of her Out of Many, We Are One posters. Well, she found out today that he came back and signed some of them and the barber is going to send one back to her. […]

I was checking my insurance claim on Progressive Insurance’s website for the car bonfire I had last week. We’ve only had one other claim with them; last year my wife was run off the road by an idiot SUV driver going too fast for the snowy conditions. Here’s the claim history for our household: Take a look at the dates. […]

Last night Mrs. E and I were making our holiday 8-hour drive to St. Louis to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my Most Awesome In-laws. About 30 miles from our destination, Mrs. E commented that she had been smelling smoke for the past couple of minutes. I agreed, saying that there was probably a fire somewhere nearby. Just then the […]

Bit of a hiatus this week as I traveled to Belgium, Germany, and Italy for work. Interesting to see how focused on the US election Europeans are, mostly holding their breath, waiting for us to do the right thing and elect Barack Obama. Nobody over there that I spoke has anything but the highest admiration for him and complete puzzlement […]

We’re back from our trip to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Much fun was had, many beers were drank and four years of wedded bliss were celebrated. We spent the evening of our anniversary drinking the same sparkling wine (“Talismon“) from L. Mawby winery that we served at our reception while lying on the beach where we had the […]

I’m off to go backpacking in the Nordhouse Dunes National Wilderness Area for a few days with my son before he heads off to his freshman year in college. After that it’s a few days with my wife in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Then it’s back home to put our noses to the grindstone to get Senator Barack […]

Speaking of sexy ladies, I present Mrs. E: Isn’t she just the cutest and sexiest thing evah? I’m just sayin’…

Hah! I knew it!!! Vegetarians Live LongerThe battle has long been waged, and will certainly continue in spite of this study. Are humans designed/evolved to eat everything and at risk of malnutrition as vegetarians? Or is vegetarianism the healthy and ethical choice? The most impressive data arises from a study of 1904 vegetarians over 21 years by the German Cancer […]

Well, having jumped the sinking ship that is efx2blogs.com, I find myself landed here and managed to get my blog looking pretty familiar now. I’ve been able to duplicate the look pretty closely and I’m happy with that. I’m having some issues with the widget layout thing because (I think) the template I used has some flaws in it. But […]