Looks like we’ve just about made it through another week. Kind of an easy one, what with it being a short one (and following what seemed like an endless week of training). Plus I had the foresight to take Monday off, so it’s another long weekend. I actually went for a brief swim on Tuesday, which was a hot muggy day here. The water was a rather brisk 67° so I didn’t stay in long. I also turned on the pool heater, and by the next day the water was a cozy 83°. but of course it’s been kind of cool and cloudy since then, so I haven’t gotten into the water. Maybe this weekend.

The propane tanks were pretty low, so I had them come and fill them up – which cost me almost $600. Oy. The price on that shit has gone up about 50 ¢ a gallon since I last ordered it (which was 2 years ago). I need to get back to my plans to cobble together a hillbilly water heater. I’m thinking I’ll mount a coil of black garden hose to some plywood and hook it to a submersible pump or something.

Once again, I got an e-mail from the Working Families Party with a link to a survey asking if they should rubberstamp an endorsement for Governor Snotball or endorse a progressive (if you’re in NY, you should fill it out), and I once again told them to endorse a progressive. I’ll even give them money if they don’t reward Snottie for his decidedly unfriendly behavior toward the working people of NY. And for once it looks like they may actually be about to do the right thing.

For weeks now, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, a Democrat seeking re-election this year, has been working behind the scenes to soothe misgivings by the leadership of a small but influential political party made up of labor unions and liberal activists who believe his policies have veered too far to the right.

Late on Thursday, a co-chairwoman of that group, the Working Families Party, said Mr. Cuomo’s efforts were not likely to be successful.

“Unless there is a significant new development in the next 24 hours, I don’t expect the state committee to endorse the governor,” said the co-chairwoman, Karen Scharff, who as executive director of the liberal advocacy group Citizen Action of New York wields considerable influence in the party.

Instead, she said, the party expects to put its support behind an academic with scarcely any chance to defeat Mr. Cuomo: Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor who was the director of online organizing for Howard Dean’s presidential bid.

OK, well, I thought a couple of weeks ago there was a decent chance to get a third-party candidate elected. But even if she doesn’t win, Zephyr Teachout has got to be one of the best candidate names I’ve ever heard. For some reason, just hearing it makes me look to the sky and flash the peace sign. And the real key is to ruin any chance Andy has of running for Preznit. It would be nice to get rid of him in NY, but not at the expense of having him become President (or VP in the Clinton II Administration, though they probably wouldn’t go with two NY people – even though Hillary could probably officially move back to Illinois or Arkansas or something).

Besides, I don’t think Hillary is the shoo-in that everybody else seems to think she is.

Speaking of elections, I had a dream last night that a black guy (don’t think he was a real person) got the Republican presidential nomination. And my mailman (who was also a black guy) was really ecstatic about it. As was I – though I didn’t want him to actually win the election, ‘cuz he was still a Republican, but it was quite the historical moment. And fictional, of course. I mean, not only is my mailman not black, she’s not even a man. She also doesn’t always seem too good at distinguishing addresses. I mean, there are a total of five houses on my street (well, between my house and the next street up – you’ve gotta go about a mile in the other direction before you hit another house, and that’s in a different town) and she seems to constantly mix things up.

Which probably explains the “delinquent dog license” letter I got in mail the other day. I never got the original renewal, so it’s probably sitting in one of the neighbor’s junk mail pile. That’s all I need, to have them come and arrest the dogs (though there’s one who’s been pushing me lately, and might deserve a couple of nights in the cooler).

Oh well, I guess I better get cracking here. I didn’t make coffee ahead of time last night, and I need a little something to charge me up and get through the day. Good thing it’s a work-at-home kinda day.