Decision 2008; Sort of...

After getting most of my homework done tonight, my mind was drawn to some semi-serious thought about our current presidential candidates. While perusing around on the web for a few minutes, I came across a "Select A Candidate Quiz", put on by a Quad-Cities news channel. Click here to take the quiz yourself.

The premise of this quiz is that upon answering several multi-choice questions about different issues, and then stating that issue's personal importance to you, the quiz will spit out a score for each candidate (limited to McCain and Obama), thus telling you which candidate's political views are aligned with yours.

Now as to the validity (or lack thereof) of this quiz, as well as any bias or agenda there may be in the computations going on behind the scenes, I have no idea. It may-very-well-be that it's rigged by some right-wing extremist, computer programming news-caster... But either way it was fun for me to do and get one opinion of where my views are situated between this war-of-words otherwise known as, the Presidential Election.

My results gave McCain a landslide victory of 53-11 over Obama. I don't know how the scores are actually tallied so I'm not sure what the total number of points are, but it sure seemed to me like a lop-sided affair. Give it a try yourself, and feel free to post your quiz results in the comments.

In other news, Megs and I keep trucking along. School, work, school, work, see eachother for five minutes, school, work, football on the weekends. And thus go our lives.

Thankfully our teams' successes (Packers 2-1, Cougs 4-0) are keeping our spirits high, along with The Office premiere we watched tonight with some friends. Speaking of friends, Randy, one of my best friends, mission comp and groomsman got married this past Friday (to a girl from Wisconsin no-less) and we really enjoyed the festivities... We're happy that more of our friends are "joining the club".

Mum & Dad are sojourning their way up to the Lovely Deseret this next week to visit Kayci (oh, and us too) so I'm sure I'll be blogging again soon to recap the two minutes we get to spend with them amidst our school, work, school, work routine.

Love you all, and Go Pack Go!

Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood...

So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye...

And so goes our bittersweet melody as we now bid farewell to the summer that was, and ring-in a new year of football! (oh, and school too...) I apologize to all my ever-so-faithful readers for taking an extended hiatus from my regular blogging schedule, but in my defense, the wife and I have been quite busy in the past couple months traveling there-and-hence, to-and-fro.

At the beginning of August, I meandered my way back east to Nashville, where I met up with Kurt to drive out west with him for his "big move". Luckily for me, he had already made the trip once with all his "big stuff", so all that was left for me was a 12'x6' U-Haul and 22 1/2 sweet hours of road-trippin'. Never before have I had so much fun rocking-out to Neil Diamond's Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show.

Actually, now that I think of it, I don't think I ever have rocked-out to Neil Diamond's Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show. Oh well, no matter. Either way, it was great to again learn "the ways of the Force" from my old master, Big Skywalker.

And see Mum and Dad's new digs... Pretty fly retirement pad, if I say so myself.

In the second week of August, Megs and I went on a weekend trip to 'Frisco and nearly didn't come back. Yeah, we had that much fun. We hit up Alcatraz, Fisherman's Wharf, the crookedest street in the world and of course, went to see our beloved Packers play the Niners in a preseason game at Candlestick. We had so much fun. Megs posted an awesome write-up (including a plethora of pictures) about our trip on her blog.

Since getting back Megs and I have gone golfing, cheered on Cosmo at "The Lavell", and unfortunately, started school.

That's right, it's September and we're hitting the books once again. I made a minor change (literally) this semester in my schooling as I dropped my French minor in lieu of Business. I'm still majoring in Economics and absolutely loving it, but I got real fed-up, real fast with my French minor classes, so this change was a-long-time-coming and a HUGE relief.

Instead of banging my head against the wall while studying the intricacies of 16th century French literature, I'm now learning about GAAP and organizational management in my Accounting and business classes, along with econometrics and price theory in my econ classes this semester. By far one of the best decisions I've made in a while.

But as we all know, when August and September roll around and temperatures begin to cool, there is one thing that trumps all the other happenings of this time of year. Yep, you guessed it...

FOOTBALL IS BACK!

And Megs and I couldn't be more excited about it! Unfortunately, our Beloved Brett is now wearing a different shade of green, but as the world will see on Monday night...


Green Bay is Mr. Rodgers' Neighborhood now...

Clear your calendars, cancel your appointments, take your place in front of your TV set this Monday night and join us as fellow Packer fans to root on "A-Rod" and our Green Bay Packers against the hated Viqueens on Monday Night Football!

GO PACK GO!