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The town seems kind of quiet now even with the rodeo, SXSW, and March Madness, and spring break starting up. The almost palpable tension of the election is disappearing and Austin is getting laid back again. Lots of horror stories about the caucus process but ours was very well attended and organized. No name calling, no yelling, and the Pct. captains handled things with quiet efficiency. Cyndi said her caucus experience was very uncomfortable because people were loud and pushy and she was happy to put her information down and get the heck out of there.

My walking stats are kind of messed up here but let's see if I can get them down right. 3-2  no walk, 3-3 the weather was bad so no walking. Tried to get  out a bit but the wind was too strong. 3-4 I did do the 4.513 miles in the visibility walks during election day. 3-5 I did 3.075 miles. 3-6 had early medical test plus it was rainy, cold, and windy again. 3-7 I did 2.818.

On my thyroid test they found I have  a large goiter with multiple nodules and on the 19th and 20th of March I have to have a Thyroid uptake and scan. It involves multiple trips which is okay because we don't live far from the clinic and the taking of radioactive iodine or some such  thing like that. Oh well, perhaps I'll glow in the dark and that could be fun. ;-) Just kidding. I know the radioactive part is very minute. Wish me luck that it's all routine stuff that's found.

"The Harvard professor is quoted as telling the newspaper Obama's team had been disappointed with Clinton's campaign win in Ohio on Tuesday. In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win," Power is quoted as saying. "She is a monster, too — that is off the record — she is stooping to anything."

Power issued a statement Friday in which she acknowledged the comments but said she "deeply regretted them."

"It is wrong for anyone to pursue this campaign in such negative and personal terms," she said in the statement. "I apologize to Senator Clinton and to Senator Obama, who has made very clear that these kinds of expressions should have no place in American politics."

Obama's spokesman Bill Burton said in an e-mail: "Senator Obama decries such characterizations which have no place in this campaign."

Though Power immediately attempted to withdraw the remark, the newspaper insisted she had agreed in advance that her interview — part of a book tour — would be conducted on the record.

"You just look at her and think, 'Ergh'," Power is quoted as telling the newspaper. "But if you are poor and she is telling you some story about how Obama is going to take your job away, maybe it will be more effective. The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive."