Well, guess the 2008 election season is well underway, with candidates announcing left and right (in both the figurative and political senses). Still time for more to get in the race, for McCain to do some more pandering flip-flops & for Hillary to make more excuses about her war vote, though. Anyways, ran across 2008 Presidential Frontrunners Quiz which matches your stances with those known for the candidates (or at least until they change their positions if its one of the less stable ones).

Mine matches pretty well with my current leanings. I’m kinda thinking an Obama/Richardson ticket would be interesting.

I’m not counting Korea since all I’ve seen so far is the airport in Seoul. Still haven’t had the chance to hit the other countries in the region, but I have done more traveling in Japan than most Japanese I know. I figure I’m much more likely to visit the other countries at some other point than some odd spot here in Japan — might as well visit it while I’m here else I’m unlikely to ever get around to it.

After a week of “training” my brain with Brain Age for the Nintendo DS, I’ve finally gotten the score to match my real age (I started out at something like 71 ^_^;; ). That’s despite how amazingly slow I am at simple math, though that’s not helped by it having problems recognizing my writing on occasion. Also there’s something about how I say the word “blue” that gives it trouble during the Stroop Test (where you say the color of the word, not the word itself — which is the name of a color). My reading test results have been completely flat, at around 3.4 syllables/second. The passages they use are mostly older texts that have a different flow to them that makes them harder for me to read aloud. Aside from the tests, I’m starting to get into the sudoku that are included — so I can fit right in with the older guys doing their math puzzles on the train here…