So more than like likely if you are reading this, you went and voted. There's apparently a 50/50 or should I say 49/51 chance that you voted for Kerry. I have to say though, I am satisfied with my fellow voters, my fellow Americans, because you went and voted. This election garnered record turnouts here in Pennsylvania, apparently not seen since the Kennedy/Nixon election in 1960 did we see sucha turnout.

I was on the fence for a long time, mostly hoping that Nader would get on the ballot. I still want to see an outsider, a maverick come out and shake up the two-party system, but alas, alack, Alanis Morisette, it was not to be for ol' Ralphie . . . blocked of the PA ballot. I have a long digression about what happened there, but I'll save that for when I'm powerfully intoxicated. Anyways, I suppose I am a 'pocketbook' voter, going with my future as a teacher, and Kerry's Education Plans seemed a bit better than Bush's No Child LEft Behind. A good idea, if you bother to pay for it, but . . . well, he didn't.

I've heard a few folks say that they see a possible return to a political/social climate like the '60s, and maybe we will see that. There are a few parallels (go go Go-Go boots!!!) but I hope that the people of this nation are more about unity in the face of the adversity, than dissension. Speak your voice, but keep your fists in your words.

And on a note to lighten the tone, some news about traveling. I myself will be flying to Minnesota this weekend, but I'm not going to try flying this way...