The recent Presidential election was quite a treat. For the first time since my first time voting 16 years ago I felt like my vote really mattered and that the experience was actually kind of fun. It was the first time I had to duck the campaigners on the way in ... I don't care what they wanted to tell me, I made my decisions, I don't want to hear anymore (anyone else glad there are no more political commercials on television?). I especially enjoyed two guys who were standing just in front of me in line. They were most definitely college students voting for the first time ... they had that "just rolled out of bed look" to them (why they didn't wait until later in the day, I won't ever know). Still, they made it a point to go and vote. This leads to the fact that for the first time I wasn't the youngest person voting ... by a long shot. There were tons of young people (listen to me, am I someone's grandpa?) in line voting while I was there.
I was pleased with McCain's concession speech and Obama's acceptance speech. Yeah, it's politics, but they both played nice. I appreciated Obama's honesty that it might take a year, it might take all term. And well, it must have been alright, Oprah was there.
On to other thoughts ... What does God have in mind now? I mean, God's hand is in this whole thing, so what's next God? I guess we all have to listen. I'm tired of listening, but I've got a lifetime of it ahead of me so I might as well get used to it. Actually, I do plenty of speaking too ... I get to talk to too many people and somehow they are all convinced I know what I'm talking about. I guess I did something right.
Why is junkfood so bad for us? We all love to eat it and it tastes good so why does it make us fat? I would love to live on nacho cheese sauce ... there's just something disgustingly good about it. As a second course I'll take chocolate in pretty much any form. I've rarely found chocolate I don't like ... now, that doesn't count things that are "artificially flavored" simply, that is not chocolate. Now that Halloween is behind us, I have been fighting the urge to eat every "leftover" candybar in our house. Slowly but surely they are getting eaten, thankfully not all by me. Equally, why is fast food so bad for us and so expensive? I remember being able to eat out for under $5 ... those days are gone unless one eats on the "value" menu and where's the fun in that? I know, I should bring my own lunch, but alas some days I am too lazy to pack one (I'm honest) and other days, nothing sounds good (that has nothing to do with the fact that we're still eating cold cuts that we froze after Olivia's baptism 2 months ago).
Why don't the Packers ever get television coverage in California? I'm tired of the 49ers and Raiders, I think everyone admits neither of these teams is worth watching. Can we please have some other options in the Bay Area? And no, I am not buying Sunday Ticket in order to see the games I want (not like I get to watch the "early" game anyway since I'm in worship during that time). And what's up with this football at 10am thing? Can we not have time-delay on the game for those of us that go to church in the morning? I know, it's called a VCR but that's no fun for me, I'd rather complain.
I'm pretty sure that what I've typed above isn't worth much. It's just the ramblings of a mind that has spent too much time thinking over the last few weeks. I think what I really need is to sit in front of a good Hockey game with a nice glass of Jack Daniel's Single Barrel - remember Jack learned to distill from a Lutheran pastor, so it's part of my Lutheran heritage to drink JD.
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