I got nothing today (that’s not entirely true, I have a bad mood, and I read an entire book, neither of which is useful to this endeavor), so here’s a shot I snapped while Anne was here that I really liked (and discovered on my phone the other day).

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Sadly, the portion of Anne‘s vacation that involved hanging out with us has ended, but we had a lot of fun.

We found employment for Nathan:

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Yesterday we drove to Blackwater Falls. The day was beautiful, the trees were gorgeous, it was in general a fabulous time.

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Just heard an interview with John Raese, Republican candidate to replace Byrd in the US Senate.

In an almost astounding case of, “Fuck you, I’ve got mine!” Rease said he wants to get rid of the minimum wage. “Asked if the federally mandated minimum wage should be abolished, Raese answered, ‘absolutely.'”

A couple of notes here, the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. If an employee worked 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year (which never happens mind you) they would have an income of $15,080.00 a year. The median income in WV in 2008 was $37,528. For the US as a whole it was $52,029, and in that same year, 17% of West Virginians had income below the poverty level.

Raese believes that West Virginians should be at the mercy of their employers in determine what is a “living wage” (Let me tell you, the minimum wage ain’t it)

He also doesn’t like regulation of industry, so not only does he believe that businesses can pay you as little as they want, he also seems to believe that industry can do whatever they want to the environment, their employees, their customers–that they answer only to their investors.

Yeah, we saw how well that‘s worked out.

And Raese’s record on safety speaks for itself as does his record on government spending.

Radio is playing post-game interview, announcer asked about penalties, to which Coach Stewart replied, ‘For as long as I am coach, I will never, I will NEVER allow my boys to play dirty football.’

Thank you Coach Stewart.

The weather has finally turned cool, and although we still desperately need rain, all we got were cloudy skies.

Decided to wander around the main campus today with my camera. Probably should have gone earlier in the morning when there were fewer people, but I picked a few buildings I liked and shot pictures, ignoring the students wandering by.

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Wandered around the downtown campus this afternoon (pictures of that tomorrow). The light was terrible, but I enjoyed the walk anyway.

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Went to the Arboretum today. Didn’t go very far on the trails, as my ankle is not up to those kinds of hills yet, but it was a beautiful day, and nice to be walking around outside.

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It is really wet outside.

Riiiiight

So I’ve been busy, which is why you get these pictures of the 4th of July fireworks a week late.

But at least I’ve posted something?

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Since it was supposed to rain, we decided to go to Blennerhasset Island instead of Blackwater Falls.

This had the added advantage of taking us to Parkersburg so we also got to spend time with Julliene. (OK, and Brian & Stacie as well.)

It didn’t rain at all, and was instead gorgeous.

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