Yeah, this is probably a GG&TT type blog post, but we need to lighten things up over here, so I’ll post it here instead of there.
Both of my girls are asleep right now.
At the same time.
It’s a miracle.
Glittergirl is better, but still not really well enough for school. I was waffling on whether [...]

I’ve had a few emails from people who feel that I’m too negative. Some of them are obviously just not smart enough to read and comprehend because a few of them offered “proof” that I’m too negative by saying that I’d predicted the CCAA would only refer one day last month. As a reminder, here [...]

Referrals began arriving this month on February 1st, though the brunt of them did not arrive until February 4. For consistency’s sake I’ve got the 1st noted on the historical spreadsheets, since I show the date of the first arrival on that day.
In the last 14 referral batches the lowest time between batches is 25 [...]

First let’s look at the poll on the left (closed March 11, 2006) as a historical marker. We can look at charts and see the same thing, but sometimes seeing it visually helps you get the idea that the reality is a pretty big bubble around the midpoint.
And next, let’s take a look at [...]

I’m primarily using the newest poll now. I’ve moved my base numbers around in an effort to remain as close to the previous benchmarks as possible.
First, let’s look at the size (in poll numbers) of the previous batches and this batch.

 
Next, to get an idea of how previous months have fared on the “Horrid/Bad/Mid/Good” [...]

Well, not anything, but, you get the idea.
I don’t have any fresh rumors to report on, and we aren’t likely to hear anything out of Beijing for a bit, so what do ya’ll want to talk about?
There are some news stories about Britain putting a gag order on their Olympians, here and here. I’m not [...]