So, what was it?

Why, it was pizza cheese, of course.

With the astounding revelation that Barack Obama has “always supported decriminalizing marijuana” even though he has said otherwise at various times, I have updated the 2008 Presidential Candidates spreadsheet.

I am no longer updating the original (which shows Giuliani and Edwards before they dropped out), but feel free to download this update, which shows 31 important positions of each of the remaining 6 candidates.

In a rare event we seldom see in high profile cases, a known killer has actually plead guilty to the crime.

Wearing shackles, a bullet-proof vest, and an orange jail uniform, Georgia drifter Gary Hilton, 61, has just entered a guilty plea to the murder of UGA graduate Meredith Emerson.

The guilty plea came just three hours after a 23-member grand jury in Dawson County handed down a true bill indictment of murder against Hilton.

During a hearing that got underway just after 1 a.m., District Attorney Lee Darragh read the murder indictment and said Hilton had signed a plea of guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. Investigators told Hilton that he could make such a deal if he were to lead them to Emerson’s body, which he did earlier this month.

It’s too bad deals like this have to be made just to learn the truth about what happened to someone. Hopefully the investigators in the other cases they suspect him in can get convictions there as well so those families can have some closure.

Earlier today, the wife roasted a chicken, so we would have the meat for a couple recipes that are coming up in the next few days.

When it was done roasting, she let it “rest” for 10 minutes. When she went back out to start slicing it up, it looks more like it “aged” 20 years.

Looks like someone forgot the botox. (It’s still going to be tasty though).

If you follow my food and recipe blog, Bits Of Dust, you’ll know that my wife is putting together a complete 5 week “eating right” meal plan. She’s doing a magnificent job, although I am not allowed to post the actual recipes just yet, I have been sharing some of the photos as I get time.

Well, one of the things we make ourselves now, instead of buying at the store, are tortillas. It’s so much easier to make them ourselves, and they taste 100 times better when they are fresh too.

Tonight, while we were at the store picking up some meat for fajitas, I noticed the following sign.

Exactly what is a ‘hoestyle” tortilla? I’m not sure I want to know. “Hey babe, what’s for dinner?”

“Oh, I don’t know, why don’t we try something hoestyle tonight.” Blech.

I was sitting here tonight listening to some ‘older music’ when I heard a song that took me back. A long way back. As most of you know I spent my earlier years growing up near Las Vegas, and then living in Las Vegas until 1994. When that song came on the radio, I felt as though I was sitting in the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV listening to it live in concert. That’s the problem when I listen to music from the 1980’s. I always end up flooded with memories I didn’t know I still had.

I haven’t been inside the Thomas & Mack Center since December of 1987 when I attended the National Finals Rodeo. I was never a huge fan of rodeos, but I found myself with a couple of NFR Tickets that I had won from a local radio station. While it wouldn’t have been my first preference at the time, I was very lucky to have won them, and I had a great time at the rodeo. It smelled funny inside the arena, but that was understandable. These four guys sang the National Anthem, I can’t remember their names, but they were damned good, and the competition in the rodeo was very intense to say the least. I have no idea how those rodeo guys do it. I know I never could.

If I got the chance, I would love to attend the National Finals Rodeo one more time, although it was only one day out of my entire life, I have such vivid memories of it, that I would love to be there, even in the nodebleed section, once again.

And then there were 6. In light of the fact that Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards are dropping out of the race, I thought I would eliminate them from the 2008 Presidential Candidate ‘At A Glance’ Chart.

You can still download the original, or you can download this update.

Sherri Shepherd says she has never voted.

On The View this morning, Sherri Shepherd recounted her close call of almost missing the cutoff for registering to vote via absentee ballot for the election in November. (Shepherd resides in New York, but is a California resident.) And apparently this is the first time that Sherri will be voting…ever!

Having turned 18 in 1985, the now-41-year-old has missed out on the past five presidential elections because she “never knew the dates or anything.” She said it was important to vote in this one, though, because otherwise, she wouldn’t have a right to complain on The View about whomever is elected for an entire year. (She probably meant to say “four years.”)

Elected for an entire year? Is she serious? First she thinks the world is flat, then she thinks the president is elected for one year. She must have attended one of those famous government run schools.

Maybe there’s a reason why she hasn’t voted. (cough)