Do You Hear. . .

. . .that sucking noise?

That is the sewer of Chicago politics sucking the life out of it's constituency.

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Congratulations!!!

Well Senator Obama, you did it! And we are all proud of you and our country. A landmark day in American and world history for that matter.

I still don't agree with your politics, but I still wish you the best of luck. Welcome to the hardest job on the planet. You need my luck, as well as skill, smarts and moxie. Plus some other great words I can't think of early in the morning without a cup of coffee.

Today I am traveling, so the posting will be light if not non-existent today. Please let me know what you think about the election in the comments. I, for one, hope we've finally cleared the major hurdle of race in this country. Maybe we can finally heal, together.

I hope we can change.

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You Can Keep. . .

. . .the change we believe in.

Just like this guy did in Chicago. But don't blame the Messiah, oh no.

(Originally posted on the LGF link contraption.)

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Ahh, Quiet Time. . .

This is the time of the morning I like most. It's quiet. No phone ringing. No compression machine in the back crunching concrete cylinders, no giant soil grinder reverberating from outside, no dumb questions, no messages, no worries.

The remainder of society is trying to wake up, to get moving. Me? I've been up for two and a half hours already. I fed the dog, petted the cat, took out the garbage, purchased some gas. . .my world is moving. Everyone else is asleep.

I could sit here for hours quietly doodling away or silently contemplating the worlds ills, however it's just a matter of time before the phone begins bleeping. Sometimes, I just wish one of my secretaries, instead of speaking through the intercom in a polite style, "Burnt Toast, Line 1", I wish, I wish one of them would just break down and hysterically scream, "Answer the goddamn phone you fucking moron!"

I dunno, it'd be a nice change from the norm.

I like change. Not the Barack Obama kind of change that really isn't change at all, just words. Anyway, change. Like packing up and moving somewhere new. A foreign land perhaps. I miss the adventure of years past. Today's change is whether or not I'm going to have coffee in the morning.

Today, it's coffee.

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