Well, today was my first day back to work since Hur­ri­cane Gus­tav rolled through Louisiana and parts of Mis­sis­sippi. No dam­age was incurred here at our office – I was con­cerned about the amount of storm surge our build­ing would see. (It’s on an island.) From var­i­ous reports, the storm surge in Pascagoula was about ten feet.  Thank­fully, we didn’t get any water.

I spent most of my morn­ing tak­ing off the plas­tic we use to cover our com­put­ers and also attend­ing my grad­u­ate course via com­puter. All in all, just another slow Monday-Wednesday.

Ona totally dif­fer­ent note, I have been intrigued recently by the stance dif­fer­ent celebri­ties are tak­ing in this pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.  I have been sur­prised some­what, also.  John Voight is for McCain, and Lind­say Lohan made a halfway-intelligent obser­va­tion about Sarah Palin’s sit­u­a­tion.  Most of the time I am dis­gusted by celebri­ties’ views on pol­i­tics — sim­ply because they hardly know what they’re talk­ing about and usu­ally just regur­gi­tate what they’ve heard com­ing from the far left.  I must say that it is a refresh­ing change to hear that some celebri­ties (i.e. Clint East­wood, John Voight, Nick Clooney) are actu­ally think­ing for them­selves.  Amazing.