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I always find these maps interesting.  Not so much the fact that it’s mostly red.  It just illustrates the difference in lifestyles of Americans.  Those blobs of blue on each coast represent probably 90% of the votes for Kerry.  You quickly come to a realization that as much as liberals want to think that the country is bitterly divided, it’s really just the two densely populated coasts where liberal ideas are prominent.  The rest of the country has very different ideas of what are important in our lives.

Anyhoo, I just wanted to share this cool map.

Hi, my names Alan and I have a problem.

An EB Games opened up 5 miles from my home.  It’s now become even easier to get my gamer fix than ever before! 

Today I spent nearly 100 bucks on games.  I got four Nintendo Gamecube games.  Zelda: The Windwaker, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Phantasy Star Online: Episode I & II plus and Megaman: Network Transmission.

Allright it isn’t that bad of a problem.  Considering the last game I bought was Simpsons Hit and Run back in like march I think.  It’s not like I blow tons of cash all the time on games.  I decided to treat myself.  Now that I have a job I can afford a luxury every once in a while.  These games should keep me happy and busy for a while.

Maybe I’ll do some reviews of the games later or something.  For now I’m off to go play!

Been a pretty boring week around here.  I got back from NYC on Monday morning.  Woke up at 5am and zipped over to the airport for a 6:30am flight.  Leaving after spending the weekend with my girlfriend is the hardest thing I do.  I get so used to us being together and having to say goodbye with the knowledge that it will be weeks before we are together again hurts.

I’ve just been working every day at UPS.  They moved me to a a new truck last Friday.  It’s much more heavy than Wadsworth was.  I went from loading 75% of a trailler a day to moving 3-4 trailers a day.  I’ve gotten used to the work though so it doesn’t bother me too much.  The main thing I’ve found is to just relax.  It’s very easy to get flustrated and stressed out when the boxes come pouring down the chute with avalanche force.  The thing is you just tell yourself it doesn’t matter.  The supervisor might ride you a bit to get the chute cleared but you just ignore him.  Work at a steady pace and you’ll make it to the end of the day.

It’s Friday so payday.  Thankfully, I have direct deposit setup so I got my money into my bank without problem.  The checks and stubs weren’t here today so those unlucky enough to get real paychecks are screwed till Monday.  The funny thing is the checks are actually shipped via UPS to the place so somebody along the way managed to misload the box and so the checks for this facility are probabbly in a truck going to some other town!

Anyways, this weekend I have a several things on my todo list.  First is to make a budget.  I’d like to start saving up some money to afford to move to NYC within a year or so.  Second is to get working on my ExpressionEngine modules that I’ve sort of put aside for the past few weeks.  There are a few other things I’d like to do that I can’t remember right offhand but I’m sure I will later.

I’m heading to New York City for the weekend again.  I’ll have very limited internet access so I’ve turned on comment moderation. Lately I’ve been getting some comment spam and I don’t want to have to worry about having the site overrun with crap while I’m gone.

I’ll be taking a 6:30am flight Monday morning to come back.  I’ll go right from the airport to work so I won’t be back home to later that night.

See you then!

Sure enough right after I leave for work Kerry goes and finally admits defeat and gives his concession speech.  Now it’s over folks!  Only Wisconsin, Iowa and New Mexico are left to report in as Nevada finally went to Bush giving him 274 which is enough to win. 

Man, it feels good knowing that Bush as won and this time he even got the majority vote!  So all you liberals can just keep your mouth shut.  There were no courts involved in making the final decision and GW got the popular vote.  It was a win fair and square.  Never mind the crap you guys pulled!

Things like stealing signs, slashing tires, making phony calls to people telling them to go to the wrong polling places, paying for new registrations with drugs, vandalizing and breaking in the GOP offices… I can go on and on!  For the group that claims to be all about peace and love you sure do get pretty violent and hateful!

I still love you though.  We conservatives ended up winning on our own merits even with all the dirty, rotten tricks you tried to pull.  Maybe just maybe you should take a look at the whole country, not just your fellow liberals and ask what they want.  The answer today is loud and clear!

Well sometime last night after I went to bed they decided that Ohio was going to Bush.  So here’s the numbers as of right now.  As long as all the states being counted stay where they are Bush wins.  You need 270 Electoral College votes to win and with 269 is all but guaranteed for Bush.

There are two possible outcomes.
1) Bush wins at least one more of the states currently not counted (Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, Wisconsin) in which he then has over 270 and is the winner.

2) Kerry wins the rest in which we get a 269/269 tie.  The tie-breaker vote is made in Congress.  In which case you have two things going for Bush.  First is that Republicans control Congress so there should be little doubt where the vote will be.  Second is that Bush does have the popular vote so Congress would feel great pressure from the public to cast the tie-breaker for the winner there.

Number one is the most likely outcome.  Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico are all leaning toward Bush right now so it’s very likely that at least one will end up being called for Bush.

The dems claim Ohio is the tossup right now but I disagree.  Ohio has gone to Bush and no number of absentee or provisional ballots are going to swing it the other way.