female candidates...

There are a number of right wing/Republican politicians who delight in calling Hillary Clinton "bitch". For some reason, this strikes them as being the height of knee knocking humour. Some of my co-workers fall into this category.

It was the right wing folks who both introduced the "Hillary Nut Cracker" and talked up sales of it. One of the "impartial" talking heads on the "fair and balanced" Fox network crossed his legs and said "ow". Yeah, real fucking funny!

The same folks (at work) have fellan in love with the current Republican VP nominee. They are appalled that anyone could possibly say anything remotely snide, nasty or truthfully critical about "their" Sarah Palin.

Well, I didn't mention "so when can I buy a Sarah Palin nut cracker" for two reasons:

1. I have to work with these boys and I don't walk on water and
   
2. Sarah Palin no more deserves a "Sarah Palin nutcracker" than Hillary Clinton does!
   

I guess the boys at work are right; I may have been a member of the Junior Republican in Perkinston Mississippi in 1979-70 and a life long Republican but I guess I've gotten "liberal" in my old age. To paraphrase Ronald Wilson Regan

"I didn't leave the Republican party; the Republican Party left me!"

nocturnal leg cramps...

I made roast beef last night and it was quite good. Unfortunately, any fat with the beef stayed in the gravy. So, I didn't drink much with dinner and had a gin-n-tonic after dinner. I deliberately refused to drink much water for fear that my stomach would be too full.

One of the symptoms of diabetes I have is that too much liquids and a fatty dinner will result in barfing about an hour after going to bed. So, I abstain...

About an hour and a half after going to bed, I awoke with the beginnings of a leg cramp in my right leg. I sat up planning on walking to the main bathroom and peeing; by the time I stood up, my left leg was incredibly painful! I could barely get my flop-flips^* on and stumbled to the bathroom. There, it was simply too painful to do anything so I walked out to the kitchen. Then, for no apparent reason, I sat down on a living room chair and the cramps subsided immediately.

I went back to bed a couple of minutes later. My wife mentioned that maybe I was dehydrated and did I drink any water? I said no. (I typically don't drink water at night because it usually gives me a stuffed up nose.)

A couple of hours later, my right leg cramped and I did the put on slippers, go to the main bathroom to pee and went back to bed.

I had worked on hard on Wednesday and nearly as hard yesterday and I thought I'd walked/run too much on the treadmill. Maybe I did? However, the wikipedia page on noctural leg cramps said in part: "The precise cause of these cramps is unclear. Potential contributing factors are believed to include dehydration".

I guess they are right.

* I despise the phrase "flip-flops" as it is cutesy and "Americdan"; the correct name for these shoes is "zorrie" as they were invented in Okinawa and not Oklahoma!