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The rain has started again. Cold, wet, dreary rain, almost everyday for the past week. Having gotten sick four times since November (contrasting with the sickless previous eight months) I’ve come to realize that the pervasive humidity of the bay area does, in fact, have something to do with my health. So I’ve been bundling up more, more than I ever have before in my entire life.

That guy who used to go to high school in the dead of winter with shorts on? He’s gone.

Of course, back in high school, my “outdoors experience” in wintertime usually consisted of me waking from my car to the door. Here, it’s a little different, in a city as walkable as San Francisco, I spend a lot of time, well, walking.

One year in this city, one year living in Northern California. It is the longest I’ve been in one city since high school – college always had the summers breaking it up, and I only spent a since summer in California, my freshmen year.

Yet I still feel the road beckoning.

Out of about 10,000 people who participated in DailyKos’s electoral projections competition, I finished in #1625th place. I beat Markos! 84% percentile, just like the GRE!

I got the percentages almost perfectly right, and the Senate right on the dot. Didn’t do so well with the electoral college (damn you Missouri! I did pick Nebraska correctly), or the house though.

Barely beat Chris Bowers of Openleft…always a victory when I beat that pompous ass.

I’m a news buff, and probably spend about 1-3 hours of the day reading news. From blogs, mainstream, international, sometimes even foreign language (not nearly often enough), I read news.

So starting today, I’m going to share some of the best articles I run across. Credit given where applicable.

Dockets Life of Lessons – Great article about one of the participants in last week’s Super Bowl and the challenges that he’s overcome in his life.

Carl Pope (my boss) is planning to step down as Executive Director – good story about the guy who made the organization I work for. 

White House Unbuttons Dress Code – Funny, I though Bush was a “people’s man,” but his White House was positively Yale aristocracratic style. Nice to see Obama doing things more midwestern.