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Some black guy.

Psyche! He will…at least there is a 99% chance he will. Apparently an ailing Ted Kennedy wasn’t going to even show up for the convention, but the place went nuts when he did. Some good entertainment, just like a good movie. For example, people went crazy when they saw Samuel Jackson show up as Nick Fury at the end credits of Iron Man, maybe some people went crazy like me when Tony Stark showed up at the end of The Incredible Hulk. But like a Hollywood motion picture, politicians are nothing but great story-tellers.

I promised a little blog post about politics, so I might as well deliver. This election year there is only one word that can really describe my feelings and involvement: apathetic. I am not hearing what I need to hear, I suppose you could say. Obama promises change, McCain promises more of the same. One thing I can guarantee about Obama is a “change of mind”. I can elaborate on that later. As for McCain, a 2008 McCain is nowhere near a 2000 McCain — that’s troublesome.

During the primary season, I became a supporter for Ron Paul. (Unlike a majority running for president, he wasn’t a fairy-teller. He told you the reality and he told you what had to be done. As of now, he is just running a campaign to get back to the Constitution and no longer seeking the presidency. I really don’t want to make this a story about Dr. Paul though.) It was early, but my friend told me that if Obama or McCain ended up being the two party nominations, he wouldn’t be able to decide. I could agree, the two were the best of both worlds. However, as of today, he is a huge Barack Obama supporter. I don’t blame him, putting the two side-by-side, Obama appears to be a much better candidate.

I’ve spoked to some staunch Republicans about their views on McCain, and even they say that McCain isn’t their favorite but they support him because simply… “he isn’t the enemy Democrat”. I even went into the history of McCain, one didn’t take too kindly to my comments about how he may have received special treatment from the Vietcong because they discovered his father was a top admiral of the Navy. I shit you not, this is what the guy asked of me, “Are you saying he is unpatriotic?”. I face-palmed myself and just saved myself from mentioning how much of a terrible pilot John McCain was to begin with (he crashed 5 planes, Come ON!)

Then there is Obama. Who can’t say great things about him? I definitely can atleast say he doesn’t have my vote. I was always told that when something is “too good to be true, it almost always is”. For example, Obama has a tendency to do a 180° on everything he believed in. Then he picked Joe Biden. Obama has been bought.

And that is why I am so apathetic. Its no so much I am fatigued by having to listen to who the media wants me to support (as my one friend had been saying. It goes further than that. It’s the lobbying, the big-money, the corporate sponsors. Barack Obama was suppose to change all that, I was told he represented the good in all of us, but even he couldn’t escape the Telecom companies.

I’ve had a few people ask me who I was supporting, but they expect a short response, so they don’t allow me enough time to explain my decision. So I just sit back and shrug my shoulders, that’s all I can do until this one is played out.

Look at what I did!  I finally got all my posts imported.  Looking back, I realized that my posts weren’t quite worthy of being imported in the first place.  Oh well, its always nice to have a track-record, I suppose.

I would bother to write more, but I am tired and hope to get up at a decent hour tomorrow to do something productive.  Pay bills, pick up books, hug my kids. You know.

One focus I want to make my blog is probably sports. To me, sports is synonymous with the phrase “Football”. Okay, I’m only bullshitting. I have been getting into sports much more these past few years than I ever have. I wound up subscribing to Sports Illustrated all of a sudden. American football is an entertaining sport. I had a conversation with a random towney bar patron. It was during the time of the Euro Cup I was wearing my Germany team-soccer jersey when he shouted at me and told me the Netherlands would win it all. We got into the mechanics and entertainment between soccer and football. By George, he was right. Not that the Netherlands would win, but that American football is a far more interesting sport than soccer. He boiled it down to that fact that the strategy and play is predetermined before the ball is even snapped. Sure there is some strategy to soccer, but falls way short of the team-effort of an American football team. I would entertain this thought a bit longer, but I am sure some friends of mine would whole-heartedly disagree with me.

Right now I am looking forward to the NFL regular season. The Green Bay Packers are looking questionable, and not because Brett Favre isn’t under center. The defense is really in trouble. I had previously wrote in disgust that they tried “bribing” Favreback in retirement, but it turned out that things weren’t being handled that way. Speaking of Favre, I actually read an interesting quote on the front of USAToday, refering to Hilary Clinton.

“Sometimes dealing with the Clintons is like dealing with Brett Favre, They’re very good players and they’ve got a great record, but sometimes you’re not sure what they really want.” - Leon Panetta, Clinton’s former White House chief of staff

Funny.  I will have to make a post about politics later!

*insert Zelda sound f/x*

In an attempt to spice up my blog again, I decided to give it a new layout. In order to actually use a pre-made one from Wordpress, I had to upgrade. So I went ahead and upgraded, but the links didn’t work properly. So I exported my entries, deleted wordpress, and uploaded from scratch. However, when I went to import my entries, WP refuses to do it. Ugh. Oh well, might as well start from scratch right?

I don’t know how long I intend to post. Like most, I want to do it forever but life outside the Intertubes yearns for my presence. Who knows when I will be dragged away. I’ll see if I can set up my Macbook to get me into some routine.

School has officially begun. I will admit that I wasn’t fully signed up for my classes until a few weeks ago. If asked why, I can only admit that I was just scared of finishing my minor. My minor: English Creative Writing. Most people I’ve told began gagging at the thought. I had originally sought Political Science back my freshman year, but was shocked to discover I had put English instead. Instead of switching, I stuck with it, figuring it would improve my writing skills and actually use it to be able to analyze and deconstruct texts. Attending classes today, I finally realized that I was definitely mistaken. I was surrounded by people passionate about Edgar Burroughs, Lewis Carroll, and Olivia Newton-John. So I jumped ship, and landed on the USS Polisci, eventually turning back and waving to my former minor as it sank into the abyss of its own Romantic glory.

Looking forward with the blog, I don’t know if I will delve into my personal affairs as much. Although I would like to, but things wouldn’t be as special. I want to find a focus, but I am still young….okay I’m turning 23 next month. Fuuuuuuck. For right now, let’s see how I fair this next week.

If you have reached this point, please comment! I have installed a security feature that will allow people to post without having to sign-up. I am sure you have no idea what to comment about so I will post a couple of questions right now. Atleast answer one of them.

1. How do you know me, Westley Wamsley?

2. Do you like tennis?

3. How did the Chesapeake (Va.) and New England (Mass.) colonies vary in their settlement patterns?

BONUS QUESTION

If I have 6 eggs, and you took away 4, then where did all this grape juice come from?

That is the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard.  Up to this point, I didn’t care if Brett came back to the Packers or not, but the management has been acting like idiots.

You would be surprised at the number of times I open up my program to blog but never have the heart to hit post.

I don’t know what to say about 2008. Things have been up and down…or down and up? More girls seem to be getting interested in me more than ever, which is a definite plus. Tino and I have a good idea for a TV show for CBS conquer my hopelessness with women.

Why don’t you come back to me. If not you, at least someone like you.

2008 started with a bang, but really never started out great.

I won’t go into as much detail but some of the things I feel like talking about.

1. My car got a crack in the windshield. Possibly happened New Years day, as the next day I came out to the car to find it. Its not obtrusive as it is at the bottom, but I just hope cracks don’t get worse.

2. A girl I had a crush on now has a boyfriend. I shouldn’t be angry, as I we never talked to her. Her friends were/have been trying to get me to hook up with one of her friends, and what are you supposed to do in that situation?

3. My debit card has quite working today. No clue what the deal is. Everywhere I try it it says “ineligible transaction”…what the hell does that mean? Its as if the card was a fake. I will have to talk to my bank clearly.

4. No good music. Probably not a big deal, but “depressive thoughts” often to lead to over-generalizations. I put out a plea for good music but people seem to only recommend Top 40 corporate music. I want my indie rock!

5. I was peed on.

Here’s to not giving up!

I am going to a Vikings/Chargers game this Sunday and I think I will root for the Chargers. No bad blood with the Vikings really, but the Chargers have Chris Chambers. I’ve been a fan of his since he was drafted on my Cassville Comets team in Madden 06. I just found out yesterday he played football in Wisconsin.

I am trying to create a sign to show during the game. Perhaps a “touchdown phillip rivers /touchdown” in classic HTML, as a joke. No one will probably get it. I don’t even know where we are sitting.

Just a reminder, the 5th of november is few days away.

I found the latest Penny-Arcade comic to be particularly funny. I was quite ready to justify the humor in the comic-strip, arguing it to be the best written in a while. However, I realized that it was touching more on a personal level which could explain the bias. Dealing with pre-orders is particularly funny, and often time items are just so popular that they are hard to keep in stock. This sometimes perplexes the customer when they look to purchase the item.

I am sitting in the Acoustic Cafe enjoying a nice cup of tea and bumming off the free wireless internet. The internet seemed to be down at the house, typical, either HBC or Charter you can’t get a damn reliably connection in Winona.