Sold my house after 3.6 years!

I have had my Seattle house on the market for over 3 and half years, and today we closed on its sale. Hooray!

I should give a huge thanks and endorsement of my realtor, Julie Varon, who stuck with this account through thick and thin. She fought hard for me for over two years of this ordeal.

I hate salt

Sodium is very bad for large men in their 40's, and yet the people who love me and cook my meals use very much salt. I don't understand it. I suppose I could refuse to eat it, but there must be a better solution.

Android is changing my life!

I got my Droid in Nov 2009, and liked it right away. I enjoyed the way that all my google apps installed and synched immediately. Now, a few months later, I am blown away. Google Listen is amazing while driving -- I am no longer dependent on boring, commercial-laden radio, and instead I can listen to Buzz Out Loud every day. Kindle for Android is incredible, and I am now immersed into books again (although maybe they are no longer called book?).

Kindle! Android! Google Apps! I love it!

They got the stimulus site fixed

OK, they got the site fixed. I just checked for stimulus for my zip code. It says that $64,000 has been spent in my zip code and it has saved/created 0.00 jobs. They can track it down to the one-hundredth of a job created! I am eager to see when my zip will get its first 0.01 job from that $64k spent.

Everyone should check their zip code and see how many hundredth of jobs have been saved/created in their areas. It would be so cool to hear that some zip codes have actually created a tenth of a job! Someday we might hear about a full job created -- we might have to dump a few more billion in first, but if it creates a job, then it must be worth it.

Football Future?

My son is huge. He just turned 6 and he is over 4 feet tall. He is slim, but solid muscle. He has an interest in "football blocking moves", and has demonstrated an expertise in this. My best guess is that he will be a tight end and/or defensive end.

Comparison of Katrina and H1N1 -- levels of government

The sad part is that Katrina and H1N1 are very different disasters in
the timescale of their effects. One type of disaster (Katrina), is
localized, sudden, and immediate, and is perfectly designed for local
government to handle first. The other type is nationwide, and brews
over a longer term of months (H1N1) and is more appropriate for the
Federal government to help with.

Where was the criticism of the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor
of Louisiana for Katrina? Why is it Bush's fault that the city and
state were not prepared? I will give Bush full blame for his wild and
reckless spending, but Katrina is not even 1% his fault. I give the
Mayor of New Orleans 80% of the blame, the Governor of Louisiana 19.5%
of the blame and Bush 0.5% of the blame.

With H1N1, the federal government promised that everyone would have
the vaccine in September, and now here it is heading into December,
and most people still have not had a chance to get it. And these are
the jokers that people want to turn over our entire healthcare system to.

Your Tax Dollars at Work

We spent a trillion dollars on economic stimulus, and here is the website that tracks it.