I have been fighting off a nasty virus of some kind all week which has left me little time to get anything done. With that said, I am trying.

Right now I have a very specific to-do-list of things needed for the site which I thought I would share. I just got done updating the 2008 Presidential Money section. I now need to update ALL of the candidates bio pages with more detailed information about their Q! earnings. The end of Q2 is on its way so I need to get this done asap.

In addition I need to:
1) Update all the candidates bio pages and CREATE those that are missing. There are a lot of them and I need to get on that
2) Update the primary section of the 2008 President section to reflect recent changes and add more detailed information
3) Spend some time with the calendar system. I need to get to know how it works better than I currently do and figure out ways of integrating it into the site more efficiently
4) Finish building a polling tracker database and then plug in as much information as I possibly can. This is going to be a big project
5) Get myself on a more regular update schedule with things like the calendar, the blog etc.

I plan on having all of that worked out by the end of Summer. Then during the Winter I can focus on just updating information while building the Senate tracking section of the site. I don’t even know if I can efficiently get to following House races this election year. We will see.

There is so much information out there and so much to do! The only good thing is I have no shortage of content to put here, just a shortage of time to get it to you.

I have put together a new forum for the site over at electiongeek.net.

I don’t expect the thing to grow by leaps and bounds overnight which is why I have put it up so early in the season. It will give me a chance to work out all the bugs, get a core group of users and let it grow naturally. BUT with that said you are all invited to stop in, sign up for an account and start the discussion.

This is a perfect opportunity to get in on a new community and help build from the ground up.

A Political Lunch that is.

Thanks to Rob Millis for including the site in yesterdays program. (The first of MANY MANY mentions I hope). Best wishes and everyone go check out the program.

Hello all and thank you for visiting. The site traffic is slowly but surely increasing and I am thankful for your visits.

I have been doing a lot of behind the scenes work lately. A good deal of the site is still not organized and fully completed. Things took a lot longer to get setup then I had originally planned and life has been throwing more curveballs than expected. I am making progress however and I am enjoying the process of bringing the site to you. So if you have seen little quirky bugs etc., I apologize. I am in the process of cleaning everything up.

One quick note. I have installed and am in the process of integrating a site-wide calendar system. I tried many, many different pre-made scripts and none of them worked out as well as Easy PHP Calendar which unfortunately wasn’t free but was by no means expensive. I do have to throw in a free plug for the software and say I have never used a pre-made script as easy to install as this one. It actually came with a full blown .exe (no mac version unfortunately) file which did all the initial installation and setup for me. No major hoops done in about ten seconds.

From there on I could run and test every aspect before buying. I am really impressed and will hopefully have it integrated everywhere soon. Meanwhile you can check it out on the ElectionGeek ‘08 Calendar page. Luckily I can use the system for all future elections so I am happy.

Well, actually it is a not so lazy Monday. I have been really behind on updates lately so I spent most of this MLK Monday morning getting the site back on track.

As you can see from the photo above the weather isn’t so hot here. Ice and rain fill everything and I have heard from some people around Upstate that they have lost power. Lucky for me I had the holiday off and have been pretty warm and toasty and chosen not to leave the house.

The only thing I can complain about is the fact that Stern is off for the day but luckily Bubba The Love Sponge, fresh off his wedding, is live on the air. So I will spend the rest of the afternoon finishing updates and enjoying some Ned recaps of the wedding magillicutty jones on the backside with the deal on. (For those none Sirius subscribers, just ignore that last paragraph!)

Sorry I’ve now read ninety articles about Mitt Romney changing his political views so I am a bit loopy.