Gleefully Off The Grid

Gleefully Off The Grid

With the weekend weather once again not looking so good, I took a day off to do a bit more Smallest Farm planting and a lot of mulch harvesting (aka mowing).

(Well, all right, I did have the Blackberry with me. But I checked it less obsessively than usual.)

Since I wasn't at the office I can't tell you how got first voter bragging rights for the June 8 primary. But whoever it was, it was today.

Nice turnout yesterday at Janelle Rettig's fundraiser; she's up and running even if no one else is challenging.

A dropout in the 1st CD as also-ran Jim Budde drops out of the Republican primary. Remember the Kerry Burt proviso: it's too late to get off the ballot.

Krusty reports on the 2nd CD Republicans at the weekend convention; not so good for Not Tom Harkin.

In the 3rd, Pat Betrouche gets a second Worst... Person... In The Wooooorld! of the week for Iowa Republicans, for his "in jest (?!?) suggestions that deported aliens get microchipped doggie style.

Roxanne Conlin has been liveblogging lately. Yesterday she was on with Charlotte Eby, which is dangerously approaching critical mass of redheads. If Conlin keeps doing this liveblogging I may need to loan her a beret.

The BBC says the floppy disk is offically dead.

The BBC also says the floppy disk is very much alive.