Because the preponderance of commenters over at the N&R's Chalkboard blog are North High Point residents who strongly opposed the Choice Plan, Susan Mendenhall's decision not to seek another term on the school board as the representative for that area has elicited much giddiness and plenty of discussion of who her successor might be.

Friday's N&R article mentioned two possibles: Garth Hebert and Tim Mann.  In addition, frequent Chalkboard commenter Barbara Ann McAbee is weighing her options as well out in the open at that blog.

To their credit, (and contrary to Chalkboard tradition) all three of them are not shy about weighing in on educational issues under their own names.  Tim and Barbara especially have been frequent commenters around the local blogosphere.  The trio can be counted on to provide well thought-out and forceful arguments for their positions. 

It is difficult to discern much difference in where they stand on educational and social matters from their public comments, so District 2 may have to choose from three candidates who seem to be all of a like mind.  Despite their familiarity with this medium and the time they spend submitting their thoughts, it is curious that none of them have their own weblogs.  In my opinion, candidate differentation will only come when the three of them clearly state their positions for public scrutiny, and there is no better platform for doing tha than a weblog. 

So, c'mon Barbara Ann, Garth and Tim - be the first school board candidate in Guilford County history to start a weblog ... then continue your blog after it helps get you elected.  If you need help getting started, just drop a line.

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As Cone noted, my laptop went dead Thursday night.  This occured right after I posted something negative about Pat Robertson.  My suspicion is that Robertson got wind of it and had a little talk with God.  I  suppose I should be grateful that a tornado didn't come tearing down Cypress Street.  Anyway... I got a reprieve.

I came downstairs this morning and just thought I'd try to fire my Compaq up to see what might happen.  It started up flawlessly.  Figuring this to be a temporary situation in light of the terrible noise my hard drive was emitting on previous efforts, I have spent the last two hours backing up all of the data. 

So here's to you, Mr. Robertson, Jesus loves me more than you will know.  Wo wo wo.

This scare has motivated me to get the hell away from Radio Userland as my blog software and to find an external hard drive for backup.  The computer is under an extended warranty that I resisted buying when I purchased this machine back in September of '04, so a trip to Staples is in my immediate future.

Question of caution:  If your hard drive were to die fifteen minutes from now, what would you lose?  The old saying goes: Its not a question of if your hard drive will crash, but when.

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