Surprized? Not really.

I heard a story on the radio yesterday about a businessman in Airdrie who has dropped his old website in favour of a new one. Some time later, after his lease of the old domain name expired, it was promply purchased and renovated into a porn site. So watch out next time you're looking for Heritage Refrigeration's website.

But it got me to thinking: I hope that doesn't happen to blogs that are left alone for too long. What degenerate things would be posted on DarNat? (that's a rhetorical question, everyone, so please don't make suggestions)

So, yeah, we neglected the blog over the holidays. There were no pictures, musings about fruitcakes, stories about presents, games played and other debacles. Rest assured that all happened, but you didn't hear about it here.

No, our first post-holiday blog entry has to do with the election. Does that mean we've entered the election blogsphere? Are we one of the blogs that that writer in the Globe and Mail cruises? Probably not. We simply can't compete with Feschuk. We'd like to, but we can't.

So n0w that we've waded into politics, let me give you a bit of an update on the political state of the Le Bray/Sit household. Enamoured with the democratic process and desperate to see a Canada we like come January 24th, we have become slightly involved.

Yesterday we went to our candidate's forum at Broken City and watched the crew debate it up. It was pretty interesting/fun with standing room only. Apparently, I showed up on Global News in one of their crowd shots - so says Will.

We dropped to new social lows as we made plans around the two English leader's debates. Rather than ignore them like the rest of the population, we made plans to crash Ryan and Karissa's home, eat mozza sticks and pizza and watch the hillarity ensue. Good times all around. We have plans to do election night (January 23th) there as well.

And in more exciting news, Natalie will be a poll clerk for election day. Yup, she'll get paid to give you a ballot and explain how to use it. As I've learned, eating your ballot is illegal, so I think her job is to tell people not to do that. She'll also be responsible for counting the ballots, which sounds like a pretty cool job. That just means that she won't be able show up at Ryan and Karissa's until after her results are in... I think she's come to terms with that responsibility, though. I, on the other hand, will be eating homemade pizza and flipping between election and hockey with the Boley's. Good times are expected.

This will be unlike the 2004 election when I returned to my car after voting only to find that I had left my keys in the ignition behind a locked door. So, I asked the residents of a nearby townhouse if I could use their phone to call a tow truck and ended up watching the election coverage with them while I waited for two hours for the truck to show up. I was pleasantly surprized to find other left-leaning people in Calgary.

So go vote. Even if you don't know who to vote for or don't care. If that's the case, go spoil your ballot. Heck, you could vote for yourself.

Now, let's change the mood a little:















For more of this action, go to www.stuffonmycat.com. Yes, it's silly, but I need something to distract me from the election.

Cheers!