Yekrats.com: Scotto’s Seafud Shanty

Despite it being one of my categories, I don’t like going political in my blog. I’ve noticed that there are two things can really get under people’s skin even talking about disagreements, and one of them is politics. (The other being religion.) So if you disagree with this, I apologize in advance. However, I think it’s important that I let my friends know what I’m doing and the reasons I’m doing them.

That being said, I was really dismayed at McCain selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate. Is a former Miss Congeniality/small-time mayor/18-month governor really the most qualified person for the VP job? Would she have been offered the job if she was a man? I highly doubt it. Furthermore, if she’s refusing interviews with the press, is she ready to do her primary duty: to take over for the president if he chokes on a pretzel on day 1?

I was so annoyed at the selection, I decided to volunteer for the Obama/Biden phone bank. Yes, last week I went to the Obama headquarters and called Lafayette residents on their behalf. I plan on continuing to volunteer until the election.

Indiana is close this year. The last poll has Indiana within 2 percentage points of McCain. The current electoral map shows the Obama/Biden ticket with 260 electoral votes with leaners. So, it might just take one little bump to make a significant difference. If I help a little, Indiana’s 11 electoral votes might make the difference.

I encourage everyone to decide on the issues that are important to them, and then look at the sites of the candidates to see how they match up to those issues. I did. Look at the issues page of both candidates. You might think that’s a wise idea for any voter to look over the issues, but not according to the McCain campaign manager, who said the election is “not about issues.”

I think McCain’s selection of Palin, who he only met once and looked at her background only cursorly, show that McCain shoots from the hip. However unqualified Palin is, the fact that McCain made that pandering decision, shows an even greater flaw with him.

I had been trying to achieve the goal of 100 push-ups, as suggested by HundredPushups.com. Well, I did have the question whether I’ve kept up with the push-up routine. The answer, “Yes and no.”

Between Week 2 and Week 3, the site asks you to do as many as you can and do as a test. Unfortunately, the minimum number for ranking is 16. I could do only 10 maximum at the time. So what to do? Well, the site is not exactly clear about that. It says to repeat the weak that you’re having problems with, which is significantly less than 16 pushups at a time. (Fact is, I still can’t do 16 push-ups.)

That being said, I’ve kinda invented my own 3-times-a-week routine. I’ve done a number of pushups, taking from where Week two left off, and gradually increasing it. I am getting stronger, and can now do 15 pushups in a stretch. Right now I’m doing about 5 sets of 10.

The way I figure, if I can do 5 sets of 20, that’s 100. Then I would just need to decrease my rest times in between sets, and that’s 100, right? I think doing 100 pushups is possible for me, but just not within the 6-week window that the site suggested.