MindOverMary is going to become Mimi the grandmother of my neice’s son, Chase, when labor is induced at 6 a. m. Tuesday March 4. My LeftCoastSister’s birthday is March 5. I have a grandchild with a day-off birthday with my son. It’s a knit one, pearl two kinda thing with birthdays through the calendar in my family. I’m happy for them in advance, but 6 am their time is 5 am my time and I’m not up at that hour at no time.

I’d like to tell you something about the elections today, but I can’t. I don’t think anyone else can talk with confidence, either. The polls are very volatile. Obama had been coming up and pulling ahead until Sunday and Hillary looks like she has stopped the wave and started pulling herself back up Sunday and Monday. Is this the SNL effect? Is it the Rezco trial? Is it McCain and Hillary both working on him at the same time? Is it just a quirk in the polling samples because different polls are showing very different things? I can not tell you and I’ve done my best to study up on it. The two big national daily “tracking” polls are Rassmussen and Gallup and they both show Hillary narrowing Obama’s recent lead on Sunday and Monday.

I will say that my best guess is that ice and cold weather in north Ohio may supress the vote, especially for older voters who are, in the main, Hillary voters. However, as I recall, most of Ohio’s northern tier is Obama’s anyway and that there was early voting, so it might not matter one way or another when it comes to delegates. Obama has outspent her 2-1 on media in both Ohio and Texas and has purchased a 2 minute “closer” during television news Monday night, an extraordinary move. Reading tealeaves, Obama’s schedule has him spending the last two days of the campaign in Texas and I’d say he’s going to his strength and expects to do better there than in Ohio. At least a couple hundred thousand have already voted in Texas. Hillary’s campaign is reported ready to file suit over the dual primary/caucus system in Texas if they don’t like the results. Best I can tell, Hillary will win R.I. and Obama will win Vermont, the sideshows tomorrow.

Oklahoma’s weather is killing me. I had the top down. Then there were tornados. Then it snowed. WTF?

I spent the weekend tucked away at home, just me and Sinatra. Watched a movie: American Gangster. Did chores. Boring.

Sis, hurry up! then wait. Call me.