Blood and Concrete

Some really good folks ended their careers with my employer this week.  Early retirement for some, but for at least a couple of others, no definite plans, and these are people within a few years of my age, higher and lower.  There's a massive warning sign there.

I'm still sorting out my take on John McCain's choice of running mate.  I don't know if it's genius or desperation, but I do know that Governor Palin (R-AK) is not going to make me at all interested in voting for her ticket.  Not that such an action was really an option, you understand.  There are things that McCain proposes that I like better than Obama's platform, but they're just not enough for me to support what I can't help but seeing as a continuation of the last seven years of awfulness.

Invested in a copy of iWork last night.  Had played around with Scribus, but it's missing a key bit of functionality that Pages provides.  I'm planning to spend a good chunk of time this weekend learning my way around the thing and getting some basic templates put together.  And next week, start generating content to fill those templates up.

Hunter: the Vigil continues to be a terrific read.  Need to put together characters for the upcoming Spycraft game.  This is going to be a productive weekend.