VOTE!!!
Let's pretend:
You won't visit any other blogs or news sites today. So I find it's not only my duty to vote, but to encourage you to vote!
A quick voting story:
There I stood, out under the eave of the Amazon.com Customer Service building, with Chris, a man who quit the job on a regular basis, smoking a cigarette (which I no longer do and didn't do well and one hopes will never do again, but it was a good way to walk out of the building on a regular basis back then). Chris said, "I never vote. Who ever won by one vote, anyway?"
It was gray and chilly and dripping rain lightly. It was late October 2000. I was within days of my second anniversary with the company, which would also be my last day there. Of course, it was also within days of the night I'd go to sleep and miss the biggest news drama of the year, of several years to come, the drama that would end so depressingly in December at the Supreme Court, but a day that was still "pre-9/11."
I voted for Al Gore. (and John Kerry, but really? John Edwards, to me, a Kennedy plus a Carter transported into the 21st century. Not that I'm good with history, I just have a soft spot for guys who actually want to solve the problems everyday citizens of this country are facing -- every day.)
I'll wrap up this post by saying that I usually avert my post-urge on days when "everyone is doing it." Lately, I have been mulling over this "not a joiner" mentality. The truth, I've discovered, is that I don't want to join the crowd--I want to win the prize [in all of its many guises]. Let's add the extrapolation on this topic to the "I'll tell you later" list (now includes the mysterious nephew, Seth's giant green sweater, and an examination of some of the problems of using fiction for role modeling). However, I will show you a picture [one of the crappiest examples of phone photography ever] of Seth showing off his knitting. Yes. That's right. His knitting.
PS One more story for another day: The Fight. Anyone have good self-defense recommendations?
You won't visit any other blogs or news sites today. So I find it's not only my duty to vote, but to encourage you to vote!
A quick voting story:
There I stood, out under the eave of the Amazon.com Customer Service building, with Chris, a man who quit the job on a regular basis, smoking a cigarette (which I no longer do and didn't do well and one hopes will never do again, but it was a good way to walk out of the building on a regular basis back then). Chris said, "I never vote. Who ever won by one vote, anyway?"
It was gray and chilly and dripping rain lightly. It was late October 2000. I was within days of my second anniversary with the company, which would also be my last day there. Of course, it was also within days of the night I'd go to sleep and miss the biggest news drama of the year, of several years to come, the drama that would end so depressingly in December at the Supreme Court, but a day that was still "pre-9/11."
I voted for Al Gore. (and John Kerry, but really? John Edwards, to me, a Kennedy plus a Carter transported into the 21st century. Not that I'm good with history, I just have a soft spot for guys who actually want to solve the problems everyday citizens of this country are facing -- every day.)
I'll wrap up this post by saying that I usually avert my post-urge on days when "everyone is doing it." Lately, I have been mulling over this "not a joiner" mentality. The truth, I've discovered, is that I don't want to join the crowd--I want to win the prize [in all of its many guises]. Let's add the extrapolation on this topic to the "I'll tell you later" list (now includes the mysterious nephew, Seth's giant green sweater, and an examination of some of the problems of using fiction for role modeling). However, I will show you a picture [one of the crappiest examples of phone photography ever] of Seth showing off his knitting. Yes. That's right. His knitting.
PS One more story for another day: The Fight. Anyone have good self-defense recommendations?