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| My monthly gas bill (ending before xmas) was $383. WTF?!? I blame Wynn for jacking the thermostat. Hopefully the next bill will be lower since we were gone for half of it and set the temp to 48. ugh. Until then, I have set the thermostat to 61. It is cold.
My To Do list never gets shorter. One of my January goals is to figure out how to rectify this situation. Woops, there's another item on the list. Ugh.
Wynn got me an iPhone for Christmas. I love it, but I can't help but feel that technology keeps taking more of our time and costing more of our disposable income. I mean, people didn't use to have to pay for cable and internet and cell phone and data plan bills! | | |
| Going into the election, it was looking like a likely Obama win, though everyone was rightly cautious to take anything for granted. What was amazing was that he actually won Virginia - early in the night it was looking very close - the former capital of the confederacy. And it's *looking* like he just might carry North Carolina too - last checked he was 14,000 votes ahead out of over 4 million. It's one thing to carry the Northeast and the Rust Belt and the West Coast and even Florida, but to win in the South... for a black man to win in the South... to get a higher percentage of the white vote than any Democrat in a generation.. is amazing. I think expanding the map into areas like the South and Indiana and Colorado really demonstrates his broad appeal across the country rather than just in typical liberal strongholds. Amazing. | | |
| It turns out I live in a very liberal neighborhood - in Greensboro, North Carolina. Who knew? The *majority* of houses have Obama signs in their yard and no houses have McCain signs. Just wanted to give a shout-out from the South to show we're not all a bunch of red-neck, Confederate-flag-waiving conservatives.
In other news, it is a dreary, wet and cold election day here. The good news is that 41% of all registered voters in NC voted early! Including me. So here's hoping the lines will be short enough not to deter the rest of them from standing in the rain. Update: rain has stopped, but it's just as dreary.
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| A house about a block away from mine had no fewer than 4 "Hillary" signs in the front lawn during the primary. About a month ago, they disappeared. Last week, 1 "Obama-Biden" sign emerged. I have tremendous hope for North Carolina. | | |
| I'm tired of desperation politics. That is all. | | |
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