Presidential Debate--The Drinking Game!

Well, nothing spices up a debate more than alcohol!
We are watching John "The Maverick" McCain and Barack "Husein?" Obama verbally duke it out on National TV.

However, adding to the challenge of attending to information is shots of sake.
We chose 5 words to drink on.
CRISIS
TERRORISM
SECURITY
WITHDRAWAL
FUTURE

Let me tell ya, I knew that initially the KEY topic of this debate was to be foreign policy and (obviously) the financial *CRISIS* became an additional issue.
They were tossing that one out like Bud Lite cans at a Boston Sports Championship Duck Boat Parade.
We are one hour into it and I have to say, for artistic merit McCain is leading by using the word FESTOONED. Obama did follow up later with EMBOLDENED, but is still a tad behind the flamboyant "Maverick" in the vocab. department.
It is now 10:10 and let me just say--I don't want to count how many times these words have been uttered, but at this point, I think we picked some MEAN words.

That's enough of that.

Something I bet I am not alone on

Networking craziness!

Do you log on to the net and spend time that could be used seeking out weird entertainment on useless pseudo networking?
I do way too much.

I check my Yahoo mail, Hotmail and Google mail. The GMail tells me who is after me from
MySpace, Facebook, Tribe, RenSpace, Google Groups. The Yahoo keeps me up to date on who may be after me in Yahoo groups, on Pure Volume and Unsigned. Hotmail shouts me out if there is action on Friendster and LinkedIn. I have pretty much dropped the last two due to overlap.
Yes-the overlap is incredible. My youngest sister is on MySpace and Facebook. So are the other members of the band. Some of them are also on Tribe RenSpace, Renforums and NE Rennies. We also have a band only Google group.
Yes, there are people I meet outside of those circle, but with my friends sending me notes, comments, writing blogs and writing on my walls, how much time to I really have to meet anyone new? What time is left for actual networking? I have to check for new pictures of my niece on my sister's Facebook and MySpace...I do this pretty much every day. I accept new friends and reply to questions and comments for the band on MySpace, Tribe, RenSpace, unsigned and purevolume before I go to our Google group and relay pertinent messages that aren't for the general public there. I check my own MySpace and deal with the questions, comments, and of course, surveys there. It goes on and on.
Luckily, now I just hit my StumbleUpon link to get my surfing started

Yes, that's why I haven't blogged since January.
Yes that is why my web page still says under construction as my domain expiration approaches.
Yes, that is why I probably won't put the links in for all of those locations.


Yay! Technology of communication?

Where am I?

I was full of good intentions when I started and here it is 2008 already!

What the heck happened?

Music making, feasting, riding around in the car with a picnic basket, shopping - all the ordinary stuff that gets me off track.

Last week I made the cutest top for my niece and that pic should be here tomorrow. I forgot to bring it to take a pic before it goes to Alaska.