They don’t send out kids party invitations to people in either party reminding them about the Caucuses on January 3rd, people just know about them. If you’ve turned on a radio, tv or picked up a paper today then chances are fairly good you know about them as well. The opening of the political voting season is brought in with friends and neighbors meeting in schools, churches, halls and other meeting areas for a chance to literally stand up and be counted.

According to CNN the democratic caucuses actually require a person “voting” for one of the candidates to stand in the appropriate corner of the room for the candidate, while the GOP Caucuses take a secret ballot. I prefer the secret ballot as opposed to standing in my guy’s corner, after all, one of the two things you don’t discus with friends is politics.

It will be interesting to see who from the Democrat side walks away triumphant (Obama, Edwards and Clinton are in a tight three way race) and I’m even more excited to see which GOP frontrunner takes it and whether or not Thompson can garner enough votes to stay alive in the race.

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Thirteen of my favorite posts from 2007
In no particular order…

1. starting over - I started the blog with a clean slate in January of 07. Here’s the first post from the new blog.
2. Back to linux - I’ve been playing with Linux on and off since 2000. This time, I made room on the second disk in the laptop and installed sabayon with all the eyecandy (which reminds me, I should really give vectorlinux a try).
3. It Could Happen to You - We had a harddrive die last year and its like loosing a member of the family…
4. When Tech Support Isn’t - I had to provide my own support when my host couldn’t get my box booted…
5. WUBI!! - WUBI is a Ubuntu on Windows installer that virtually gives you ubuntu on your windows install. It was cool.
6. Tower Power - Someone was trying to put up a cell phone tower on some property across the street from our neighborhood….
7. 4th of July to Forget - Our fourth of July adventures on the high seas!
8. Blogday 07 w00t! - I listed a list of the blogs I visit on a somewhat regular basis. Check them out.
9. IWTGBTP!! - I finally got to take amy out west and she got to see the splendor of Colorado and New Mexico…
10. So Many Plates - Life is like a balancing act…
11. Three Must See Shows - Not that I’m likely to see the complete seasons this year (thanks you greedy money grubbing studios) but these three were the standouts in a season prematurely ended…
12. Playing Catch up - This one is kind of cheating. Its was the first link in the series about our trip to Disney World for Thanksgiving and has links to the other posts…
13. Make EntreCard work for you - A post about entrecard and how to make it work…

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