Today, history will be made, one way or another...
Well, as you can tell from my last post, I voted this morning. The day was beautiful (as I mentioned) and on the way home for lunch, I stopped at Kroger's for their 10 for $10 deals this week. I got 10 cans of Campbell's soups for $10 US and 10 cans of Carnation evaporated milk (I use this occasionally for baking and, more often, for cooking when I don't have fresh milk on hand). The receipt tells it all. I spent $19.00 US for what I bought, and, according to them, I saved $18 US. Sweet!
Back at work, I noticed that, after 4:00 PM, it was only me and Ying, the Chinese programmer, which were still "in the house." We assumed the rest all went to vote.
Back home after work, I went out to take a photo of the black squirrel nest in the black walnut. By the time I treated the cats, changed clothes and got outside, it was what the Scots call the "Gloaming" or twilight.
I took a photo of the now exposed black squirrel nest in my black walnut tree, just to show you how the poor bastards have to get through the winter. Hey, squirrels, I sympathize but, at least it's not Alberta, Canada, right?
Using the rest of the twilight, I went back in the back and got the two hoses that hang on the reel holder. I dragged them both up to the patio. Then I picked up the end of each hose, held it over my head and switching hands over and over, slowly walked to the other end. This is a technique my friend Leon taught me, BTW. He has a cattle ranch and needs to provide water even in the dead of winter to his cattle. So, that is how you drain the hoses.
Back inside, I heated up the remainder of the first pork chop, some potatoes and gravy and the Brussels sprouts for dinner. I watched some TV (taped) and went to sleep about 10:00 PM.
I woke up at 1:30 AM and turned the TV back on to see who won (as if I didn't know). Sure enough Obama had already won it, before midnight! It's a historic moment, of course, the first black President. But you know, I think it was also people wanted a generational change in leadership, much like we all did back in 1960 with John Kennedy.
Anyway, I did lose my bet with the Webmaster, so he gets to redo the site FOR ONE WEEK ONLY.
"I did lose my bet with the Webmaster, so he gets to redo the site FOR ONE WEEK ONLY."
ReplyDeleteWhat!? Only one week? The logo says 2008, so we could run it thru December 31. Can we vote on it? Start a petition? Deluge your inbox with campaign requests?
We must remake this website the way it's been done in America: page by page, pixel by pixel, calloused hand by calloused hand.
When our kids ask, can I see the Obama logo on Papa John's page, we know the answer. Yes we can. Yes we can.
"I think it was also people wanted a generational change in leadership, much like we all did back in 1960 with John Kennedy."
ReplyDeleteSure. I wager you were as much into the election at 12 as my daughter is at 8. Yet I wonder, what was your first election?
The voting age was twenty-one until Michigan lowered it to eighteen in 1971. You would have been right on the line in 1969. Did you scrape under the age limit and vote for Richard Nixon? Surely you were old enough by 1974 to vote for Gerald Ford. Did you vote then, or wait?
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Oh, as I recall it was just as exciting when Kennedy was running as it was with Obama! He was the youngest president as well as the first Catholic one, so everybody was either strongly for or against him. Both he and his wife Jackie defined the word charismatic!
ReplyDeleteI don't recall the first time I voted, actually. I know I was a regular voter by the time we moved to Palms Road, though.
But, I wouldn't have voted for either Nixon or Ford. Up until about 10 years or so ago, I was very much a Democrat. As Winston Churchill once said, "Every right-thinking man is a liberal in his 20's and every right-thinking man is a conservative in his 40's." (or something like that, lol!)
"Anyway, I did lose my bet with the Webmaster, so he gets to redo the site FOR ONE WEEK ONLY."
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, it could have been worse, P.J. Losing your bet could have meant that you had to don a pair of red underwear and make a web video ... singing about your "Crush on Obama." :)
@Dad: Interesting bit of history, thank you. About Churchill, I am clearly not a right-thinking man. I have consistently considered myself a socially-liberal financially-conservative independent. But who knows, there is still hope for me. I may straighten out in my fifties and be a financially-conservative socially-liberal voter.
ReplyDelete@Jyl: Hey, watch what you write! I caught this on the way home on my Blackberry. You had me thinking of Amber Lee Ettinger and patriotic thoughts and then I couldn't drive straight for miles.
@ All red-blooded males on this blog: I highly suggest you celebrate Obama's victory (or bereave McCain's defeat) by googling "Obama Girl." Watch the videos and feel your patriotism stirring.