Grab a book or take a Nap, Its Friday Night

What do 57 year olds do on Friday night? After work, some of us go home and read another chapter or two in our books or take a nap.

I enjoyed catching up with Stumper (the newsweek blog at the bottom of this page) as it looks at the inevitability of the campaign trail and the current misfortunes of Hillary as she seeks the nomination by way of super delegate. The will of the people through primaries and caucuses are not going to yield her the win she wants. Obama is ahead by 100 delegates in the primary on the way leading up the March 4th contests in Ohio and Texas. It looks like the best she can do in these is to come out even. In Texas, tonight she is even. In Ohio she is up 6 points.

The primaries have become our new professional sport. There are weekly infusions of information. There are unexpected changes in power. There is a chance to have your voice heard, through your own primary or a caucus, and there will be a winner moved to the a grand and wonderful superbowl (electtion) in November. You know the players. We have been able to see them perform in debate and crowded stadium exposure, you have heard the ney sayers of each. We can listen with our hearts and we can watch a growing tote of how our players are doing. Just like pro football, some challengers fall by the wayside on the way to becoming anointed. And with that there is also the chance even the probability that the best team or candidate will not have a chance to play in the big show.

The Fresno market for TV adds is never considered a viable one for a flood political influence. We are just out of the mainstream. This means that the candidate will probably not stump the valley like they did for Micheal Dukakas. We went down to the train station to watch him give a little speech as the train rolled from one end of the valley to the other.

This is the weekend of the big bike classic in Merced. Pro teams from around the US come here to race around the courtyard square and ran a foothills course that starts in Merced and ends in Merced. This weekend yeilds about 3 million dollars in support for the community. There are racing in the morning for kids and races for women in various categories all morning and afternoon. The big race with the pro mens teams is in the afternoon.

The peach blossoms are out this weekend (just barely) and the apricot trees are showing there tiny little pinks too. The pluots are in high gear with at least 8 bees just working their little hearts out to pollinate the trees.

Take care

Pat