Odds and Ends

Clear and cold. It's getting wintry around here. Lucky for us that we now have some indoor games for the duration. Yes, we gave ourselves an early Christmas and bought a Wii and a Wii Fit. Let the games begin!

The Wii Fit is more than a game of course; it's really a fitness machine and well thought of among physical therapists. The most difficult exercise? That would be standing on the Wii Balance Board and letting the machine reveal your weight and BMI in LARGE numbers upon the television screen. After you've done that, everything else is fairly easy.

Sad news. Miriam Makeba died while on tour in Italy. What a voice and what a woman! (Somewhere in my garage is an LP of hers.)

More odds and ends: I was reading the other day that President Obama was denied a floor pass to the Democratic Party Convention in 2000. Irony?

The rest of the news this morning is simply 'the news' and I will have to wait for something to attract my attention. Perhaps some news about President Obama's cabinet decisions? I'm really hoping to see Bill Richardson among the intellectuals that will be shaping the future of our country.

And I hope the rest of the country found it to be tiresome when the Republican's immediately attacked Obama's choice for his Chief of Staff; accusing Rahm Emanuel of being 'hyper-partisan' before the man even had a chance to demonstrate what kind of tactics he would employ in his new job. Wouldn't you…shouldn't you - wait for an actual demonstration of that 'hyper-partisanship' before you accuse? But that would require fairness, something that has been lacking for the past 8 years.