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Like most years, Amanda and I went down to Jensen Beach for Thanksgiving.  Her family has a timeshare condo on the beach, and it is great.

Josh bought RockBand for the Wii, and we played that late at night.

On Wednesday (the first day), I was trying to balance myself on the upright support of a chain-link fence.  The poles were all rusty, and when I put my weight on the horizontal pole it broke free from the support leaving a sharp edge.  The outside of my wrist was sliced open on it, creating a gash approximately 1.5 inches long and down to the muscle (I don't think it cut into the muscle).

So, we went to a local urgent care clinic, and they cleaned it out and sewed it up.  It took 6 sutures.  It didn't hurt too much, just a tingling sensation really.  They had to give me a tetanus shot, which hurt after a few days.

Thankgiving Day was great, ate a lot of food.  Went to see "4 Christmases", which, although funny, I don't recommend.

We just hung out on Friday, since my wrist was hurt, I couldn't really play on the beach.  Josh, Amanda, Michelle, and I played Monopoly.  Josh bought every propertly he landed on, and put himself in a very good position.  I was stuck in jail for two rounds (I kept forgetting to just pay the $50 and get out), so I ended up with two properties and had to pay top dollar for some more.  Amanda was first to build houses, and then hotels, but Michelle built hotels on the Green spaces, and wiped us all out.

Saturday we decided to make our traditional sand castle.  I decided to carefully use the shovel, but I couldn't really get into detailing because I wanted to keep my wrist clean and dry.  Still, it turned out amazingly.  We built two castles with a causeway between the two.  Amanda made a very impressive staircase and porch-thing in the front.  I didn't build the usual outer wall because I was too tired, but we did extend the moat.  We got a lot of pictures, the are probably on somebody's Facebook.

We cleaned up the condo on Sunday, and drove home.

Other than hurting my wrist, it was fun, and relatively uneventful.

During Obama's first press release he said that even though we are in tough economic times, he would not push policy because, "the United States only has one President at a time".

Well, I guess the economy is just way to bad, because now he is pushing policy and having the Bush administration run all decisions by his team.  On top of that, he wants Congress to have a bill for him by his inauguration.

I am fine with the presumptive President-elect pushing policy, but don't get up and say that you won't, and the go ahead and do it.

What?  Has our economic situation changed so much in the last two weeks that Obama goes from "one President at a time", to we need to make decisions now?

No, he is just playing with us.  Telling us one thing and then doing something else.  He never intended on keeping his word on this.

So much for "change", and a new way of doing things.  Obama continues to fill his cabinet with ex-Clinton advisors.

How can you change when your closest advisors advocate the same old?  Has he selected any fresh, bright, clean people?  I don't see them.

Why do they keep referring to Obama as President-elect?  He isn't.  I guess the actual meaning of words don't matter any more.  A person doesn't become President-elect until the Electoral College votes for him/her.

It is as simple as that.  They haven't elected Obama, so he isn't the President-elect.  This only matters to people who care about the constitution and our state-based form of government.  The populus does not directly elect a president.  They elect electors in each state.  The states then vote for the president (based on the popular vote).

If, God forbid, Obama were to die before the electoral college met, they could choose anyone they want.  If he dies after, but before his inauguration, then the Vice President-elect becomes the President-elect, and there would never be a "President Obama".

I don't remember the media immediately referring to Bush as President-elect.  They didn't even do so after the Electoral College met because they said it was a sham (because the Supreme Court in Florida called the election).  In fact, they still have a hard time referring to him as "President Bush".  It is usually just "Mr. Bush".

Lets see how often they refer to Obama as simply "Mr. Obama".