JEB:LOG Endorses the Obamas

While Stonegate’s End is unable to offer a unified endorsement, this blog is able to endorse the Obamas, and casted one vote in that direction today. That’s Barak and Michelle. There are several reasons behind this endorsement, but one conclusion kept repeating itself: “The Obamas may just be who the Clinton’s pretended to be four terms ago.”

Other thoughts:

* Barack was taken outside the U.S. for many years of his youth. One reason he sees America united is because that is how he thought about it for so long– home.

* Barack, like Tiger, embodies our diversity and makes the most of it.

* Barack’s mother was an intellectual and an atheist, teaching him to think about everything. She may not have made all the right decisions, but her decision to send him home to be raised by his grandmother put him on track for today.

* Michelle is an accomplished professional Harvard graduate who proudly says she is a mother first. You could tell the way she said it you better never suggest otherwise. (I’ve never heard Hillary sound that convincing.) She says work-life balance would be one of her major causes as First Lady.

* It’s good to cast this vote in Georgia.

Polls close here in 10 minutes.

Frozen People

You have to like a gag that results in spontaneous applause. No harm done… even the cleaning guy seemed ok with it.

MintyBoost x 2

mintyboost-two-teds-robot.jpgInspired by Ted’s experience, I ordered two MintyBoost kits. The girls will often bring their iPods on trips, running out of power because they had not planned ahead. Now they don’t have to plan ahead, because we can slip some of our rechargeable batteries into our MintyBoost kits and they are set. (We always keep 4 double-A batteries charged for use with our digital cameras.)

This project was just as fun as Ted describes, and thanks to Ted’s post, there were no frustrating moments. And of course it helped that Ted loaned me the tools. His “robot” third hand is shown in the attached photo displaying the two finished MintyBoosts.

Claire enjoyed helping. She put the tiny capacitors, resistors, etc. into the circuit board. Better eyes and smaller fingers than mine. The only “improvement” I can suggest is the step I took putting a rounded-corner piece of duct tape in the bottom to help the circuit board from touching metal. The padded tape would likely suffice, but the duct tape felt like a good precaution.

Thanks Ted!