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OOhhh… just discovered another blog at the convention.  Another leader of Burnt Orange Report, Karl-Thomas (“KT”) Musselman, is over in Boston as the youngest person of the Texas delegation to the DNCC.  His blog  – Musselman for America – provides insights into KT's time in Boston.    Read his blog… it's quite good, and gives a great summary of all the events and planning leading up to attending a national convention.

Reviewing various blogs today, after being slack yesterday.  I am enjoying the fact that many representatives and delegates are making themselves available to the blogger community at the DNCC.

Byron over at the Burnt Orange Report has a great interview with Tammy Baldwin.  In her interview, when asked about the increasing tuition costs, Baldwin states that “the solution to the problem was increasing funding for the Pell Grant program, and lifting the ceiling on the amount for grants so that it could cover a higher percentage of costs.”  Being involved with the community college system, this is good news for students!

Over at afro-netizen, Chris Rabb was giving an overview of his social activities during the DNCC, and made the following observation: “Dean is now what I'd call 'fashionably irrelevant.'” (link)  He made this observation after describing his new suit (very fashion focused).

Don't forget to check out Susan's Diary.  She has made some great posts, capturing a different perspective of the convention, especially her comment about the blogger's roost (well, she repeated the term, but I read about it first on her blog).

Oh I just found out that Willie Nelson is performing tonight at the convention…  Chris just said this is the way to get his mother to possibly vote for Kerry.  Unlikely.

It seems that LJ allows email posts now! Let's see if this works

My internet service was down … how frustrating. Now all my diary entries are posted at the same time… though I could change that if I wanted, but that involves energy

Oh, I've just downloaded the client from Semagic for LiveJournal … looks very nifty!

I figured that it was time to move my journal to “friend” status. Some of my future posts are not going to be made public given the content, and even though I'll post publicly every now and then, if you want the “dirt” you'll have to get listed as a friend. So shoot me a message to be added now!

I've decided to take the plunge and do an online journal. It seems like this will be a good way for me to “write stuff down” and help me work through the issues that dwell on my mind. It's also a good way for me to remember what I got up to that day, week, or month.

This evening I spent listening to our HOA Board drone about how busy they have been, without actually doing anything. It seems they think if you put a group of slides together in powerpoint, then it shows you've been busy. Not sure which school taught them that, but it was so transparent.