Birthday over

[andyhat]

Thanks to everyone for your birthday wishes! I was in Milwaukee over the weekend so I could celebrate with my family up there. May 2 was my niece's first birthday, so there were parties Saturday (mine) and Sunday (hers). And lots of yummy chocolate cake. Overall, a great weekend (other than having to clean Sasser off the condo computer on Sunday night, which was no fun when the only source of patches and current anti-virus scans was 33kpbs dial-up).

Before I left on Thursday, I mailed in my paperwork to file as a Libertarian candidate for NC House, District 40, and I see I'm now on the Wake County Board of Elections web site's list of candidates. I'd tell y'all to vote for me, but I don't think anybody on my friends list lives in my district.

Reading over the weekend was The Memory Cathedral by Jack Dann, subtitled "A Secret History of Leonardo da Vinci." It's an alternate history in which da Vinci and his apprentice Machiavelli leave Florence during the dust-up between Lorenzo Medici and Pope Sixtus IV and travel to Egypt and Persia, where da Vinci serves as Chief Engineer to the Caliph in his conquest against the Grand Turk Mehmed. The opening section with its endless Florentine soirees gets a bit tedious, but once the main action gets going, it's a fun tale of adventure and invention.

Comments

[a-nightengale.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an intriguing book. Glad you had a good birthday. And I'm in Durham but I'd vote for you if I could. :)

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

You're always welcome to borrow books, so long as you promise not to hurt them :)

I've been slowly adding my books, CD's, and DVD's to my collection at Mediachest.com, which would make it easy to track who has what stuff borrowed, but so far I haven't been able to entice anybody else to sign up.

[pnew8.livejournal.com]

Oh! I missed your birthday. *mutterings about how LJ used to remind me of those* Happy Belated Birthday! And good luck on the campaign trail! Door-to-door, I imagine. And thanks for all your best of the year list postings. Impressive.

[capitalfellow.livejournal.com]

Doh! Sorry I didn't know it was your birthday. Would you be interested in letting me buy you a drink on Thursday or next week ? I'd be curious to hear how organized the Libertarian party is in the state, even though I can't vote for you.

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

Well, so long as "drink" means Diet Coke, sure :)

It'll probably have to be next week, though. Thursday night Gary Nolan (one of the three front-runners for the LP Presidential nomination) is speaking at the Mecklenberg County LP meeting, so I'll probably be going to that. But next week all my evenings are currently free.

Hrmm

[tizzed.livejournal.com]

Ever hear of election fraud?

How hard can it be? Especially with a guy from Chicago (and good at computers)...

I think you can actually win the presidency with those credentials..

[andyhat.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately (fortunately?) I believe North Carolina has more or less given up on those electronic voting machines from Diebold and the like. Much harder to pull off such things when there's a paper record of the vgotes.