Monday

[lesliepear]

Alan is still being a pain. Today he was complaining for the first time about not wanting to watch the "Thomas on Demand" - he kept asking for another one. Finally I stuffed a DVD in. And he pulled his usual stunt of running all over the place once he's out of the car. I think I'll drop him at daycare first then park at this rate.

Interesting stuff with a few people I know - a female coworker did the NYC marathon in 3 hours 19 minutes. It would take me 3 days and 19 hours! And a friend of ours attended a Democratic rally at the county courthouse, was in the front row of the crowd - shook ex President Clinton's hand and tried to get an autograph (the cop took the paper, but never returned it). No matter what your political persuasion, I think it was neat to meet an ex-president.

I had seen a flyer for this rally. At the bottom it said "no bottles, cans or signs". I assume they had no signs so people could see, not to restrict freedom of expression. I guess if you REALLY had something to say, you could have worn a shirt.

It's been quiet on the phone calls here actually, depsite the NJ Senate race. No recorded calls from famous people or politicians asking us to vote. My attitude on that is that if the person REALLY called me (not a recording), I'd listen - otherwise no matter what they say, I erase it.

Yesterday we went by our friends in Hackettstown. Alan did scare us - somehow while he was on the playground, he got a bloody nose - no one saw what happened, just Alan crying and bleeding. He didn't seem to be able to tell us what happened (he'd just been on a slide). But it cleared up quickly with no effects (and no blood stains!)

Comments

[lunameow.livejournal.com]

On the signs thing: most huge rallies don't allow them (partly because of visibility issues, and partly because that many people packed into a small space holding things on sticks is dangerous). But they do usually pass small signs through the crowd.