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Courtesy of weather.com…

Hooray! T minus 4 days! [Edited]

EEK!

Today I booked my flight to Phoenix on New Year’s day….bright and early…6:15 am. I will be in Sedona for the most of my trip. Any suggestions on places to go in Phoenix? Sunday I will be going to the indoor flee market.

This is my home away from home [That I don't visit enough] :

Of course it’s not the greatest photo because it was waaaay back in 2005 with an expired fuji disposable camera….But I’m sure you get the idea.

Tons of pictures will be up on my FLICKr the week after I get back.

Much Love!

Blink.

Does anyone else miss these guys [together, I mean.] ?  Tom is amazing.

Word of the Day

Snarky

Pronunciation:

\?snär-k?\

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

dialect snark to annoy, perhaps alteration of nark to irritate

Date:

1906

1 : crotchety , snappish 2 : sarcastic, impertinent, or irreverent in tone or manner <snarky lyrics>

Circuit City Bankrupt?

So, as many of you know, I purchased a Canon Rebel XTi in May of this year.  When I purchased the camera, I also purchased a 2 year warranty on it which covered everything from dropping it in water to breaking the lens by accident. My question is will I still get to take advantage of this warranty if they are out of business?  The warranty is through another company I believe…….or at least I hope!!!

Please let me know if you have any information on this!

…..and the race begins!

HASTINGS, Minn. — The gates are open, and the race is finally on.  Again.

After two weeks of back-and-forth sniping, the recount in the Minnesota Senate race between the incumbent Republican, Norm Coleman, and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken, has begun.

Mr. Coleman had taken the lead after the initial vote on Nov. 4, but the paper-thin margin — a difference of 215 ballots of nearly 3 million votes that were cast — invited an automatic recount. What followed were lawsuits, bitter accusations of fraud, and reports of ballots turning up in strange places, like the backseat of one election worker’s car.

A victory by Mr. Franken would raise the number of Senate Democrats to 59, only one shy of the 60 needed for a filibuster-proof majority. It would leave just one more Senate race — in Georgia, where the Republican incumbent, Saxby Chambliss, is fighting to hold his seat — to be decided.

On Tuesday, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, convicted last month on federal ethics charges, lost his bid for a seventh term to Mark Begich, the Democratic mayor of Anchorage, as the final ballots were counted there.

The recount in Minnesota started on Wednesday morning in a small number of counties and is scheduled to stretch at least until Dec. 5, when a state board convenes to certify the results. All of the ballots are being counted by hand, a laborious process that will take place at 120 recount stations, with trained observers monitoring each location.

About 80 people gathered at the Judicial Center building in Hastings, the seat of Dakota County, about 20 miles east of St. Paul. Thousands of paper ballots sat on eight tables in a room, while election officials riffled through them and two observers at each table — one from each campaign — stared intently. Behind them, the lead lawyers for each campaign wandered the room, stopping at tables to peak in and occasionally issue challenges. Dozens of other people, mostly reporters and campaign supporters from both parties, were also in the room, roped off behind bright yellow police tape.

The workers involved toiled almost hyper-vigilantly, creating the sense of an abiding regard for the rules that verged on paranoia. It was also clear that for many in the room, this was unfamiliar territory. The lawyers and observers repeatedly referred to guidelines for the recount that were cited in a training video they had watched.

As of Wednesday afternoon, nearly 15,000 of 226,000 ballots from eight precincts had been counted. Five of them were challenged, each by supporters of Mr. Franken.

Joel Beckman, the deputy recount official for Dakota County, said the recount had a long way to go. Because it will all be done by hand, many of the workers, concerned about their fingers, were employing new techniques to limit wear and tear. Some wore rubber fingers that resembled elongated thimbles. Others were using a type of pink glue — called Sort Quick — that enabled them to sift through ballots more quickly while still sparing their finger tips.

“At the end of the day,” Mr. Beckman said, “your fingers get a little raw.”

Article courtesy of The New York Times November 19, 2008

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