You know the horny fundamentalist priest went over well with an 8 year old boy around.
Then I woke up Saturday unable to bend over far enough to tie my shoes, and have had the same lower back pain ever since. After some googling, it seems I must have a slipped disc from rearranging some furniture on Friday afternoon, though I didn't feel it at the time.
The same sources I found on Google say it can be 2 to 3 weeks of healing to get over a slipped disc...I'm frustrated after 2-3 days; though I have learned that alcohol is a far better painkiller than ibuprofen or oxycodone, and likely cheaper as well.
Apparently there are more important things happening in the world today than my lower back pain. I'll likely be sitting around medicating and watching polls and numbers and people singing the praises of McCain/Obama's campaigns all night. I like CNN's big touchscreen 'magic finger' technology so far, though I'd like to be able to access the breakdowns myself, without them picking and choosing. I haven't found it on the CNN site so far, but I'll keep looking.
17:41 EST - CNN Exit Poll update 72% of new voters so far voted Obama; the top state being California, which was guaranteed Dem anyways.
18:10 - 5+ hours in line to vote? We're no America, but in Canada you get in and out of the voting station in less than 20 minutes (including 5 minutes to stop at Tim Hortons)
18:17 - CNN is busting out all kinds of fancy graphics technology - pure filler.
18:33 - Exit polls are great and all that; except when you remember how the exit polls all had the Democrats ahead in the past two elections.
18:42 - White evangelical voters in favour of McCain, who knew? Numbers down from support from the same demo. of Bush. That's a plus. Wolf Blitzer "loves these numbers". Stay tuned closely going to and coming back from commercial breaks, he may be standing over at the 'voter analysis board' rubbing his beard against it sensually.
19:00 - CNN projects Obama and McCain get Vermont and Kentucky respectively. No alarms and no surprises.
19:15 - CNN busts out a hologram looking like the Emperor and Lord Vader talking in Star Wars.
19:48 - Flipping around a bit; NBC has McCain projected in South Carolina, CBS South Carolina and West Virgina, CNN is being more cautious.
19:56 - CNN all night has been showing some great breakdowns of the current votes by county, and comparing to the 2004 election. CNN now projects South Carolina as well.
20:00 - A slew of expected Democratic states have come in. Why aren't there more states like Maine and Nebraska that can split their electoral votes?
20:30 - Another northeastern state for Obama in New Hampshire. I like that CNN is actually waiting for a significant number of actual ballots, as opposed to exit polls which I have a hard time trusting.
20:44 - The latest versions of Firefox have become increasingly bloated, and prone to crashing. Software developers need to stop taking memory usage for granted. I think its time to switch to using the much more streamlined (though less customizable) Google Chrome on my laptop.
In the meantime; Obama has been projected to win Pennsylvania which is a nice pickup.
20:54 - I just came out of the bathroom and thought I heard Wolf Blitzer say Clay Aiken had won a seat in North Carolina. Turns out it was Kay Hagan, which is probably for the best. Clearly my 'medication' is starting to catch up with me.
21:01 - Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota all for Obama. NY was no surprise. Wyoming and Alabama to McCain. Race as an important factor or not a factor votes the same according to exit poll demographics, lending some credence to the suggestion that for every person voting for Obama because he is black there was someone voting against Obama because he was black.
21:34 - Ohio. As Ohio goes, so goes the White House. McCain is running out of seats quickly.
21:39 - The McCain HQ has turned off the news coverage of the election. Even Fox News apparently; I'm guessing there's no way to spin it in their favour at this point, even at Fox.
22:02 - Indecision 2008 is on CTV Live. I don't have to wait like most nights not having the Comedy network. Excellent.
22:28 - They're talking about concession speeches with more vigor now, I think I'm done posting updates for the night. Suffice it to say I'm pleased that its so clearcut at this point, with little chance for even vote fixing to save the Republicans this time around.
23:19 - I'm pretty sure that the intro music theme that was just played before McCain's concession speech was a slightly altered theme from Top Gun...Maverick to the end; hilarious. Lets hope he doesn't let Palin speak.
23:27 - John McCain remains a classy man, after cutting off hate mongering supporters at rallies in the past weeks, he has delivered a humble, and apparently honest concession. He suggests that he has no regrets about what might have been, but one still has to wonder how much closer it would have been if such a divisive candidate as Sarah Palin hadn't been chosen as the VP candidate.