Alone and Unobserved

or, All About Me (motto: “Every Paragraph Begins with ‘I’ ”)

I am sick. “Sick” in the sense of being physically ill in some ill-defined “general malaise and fatigue” sort of way, and also “sick” in the sense that I called in sick and am home doing nothing in front of my computer. But now I am not doing nothing! Now I am blogging. I feel productive.

I just discovered that I am not a registered Democrat, as I had previously imagined. I guess when I registered to vote in Salt Lake County—in 2005! how can I possibly remember that far back?—I decided to go with “unaffiliated,” perhaps because it made me feel loose and unencumbered. Like choosing boxers over briefs, say?

I think I will be voting for Obama tomorrow, largely because of this video.

Inspiring, isn’t it? I’m not one-hundred-percent sure which way I’ll cast my vote (honestly, I like and dislike both Clinton’s and Obama’s policies in about equal measure) but right now I’m leaning towards the guy with MoveOn’s and will.i.am’s backing.

In other news, I went out and bought the first three Myst games, as well as the first two Age of Empires games with their respective expansions. Unfortunately, all of them have various levels of trouble functioning on my machine, ranging from Age of Empires I (has to think really hard when changing songs) to Myst III: Exile (waits until I haven’t saved in three hours and then freezes) to Myst: Masterpiece Edition (crashes and takes Windows down with it). Oy vey.