The Moon Garden Lounge

Nikki!!!!



You guys, I am enjoying hearing about your families, and also the students, so much. That is one thing that has been lacking on this board that I do like about ALFC. Because it is behind the subscription wall, perhaps, people have felt more free to share stories and it really helps in getting to know and makes things more fun and interesting.

To me, Adam's career is reaching a new stage -- a stage where being a fan has to become more sustainable over the long term than riding the rocket ship. And so I really like getting to know some of you better as human beings.

Now, apparently, I have some really bad karma to pay off, or something! Because I have to make a silly, unexpected business trip to a small town in East Texas. mahailia and lindag, this town is so small, it is the town Dairy Queen forgot. You will understand. I will not have Internet access. And I have to go with my crazy, narcissistic boss.

And in the spirit of getting to know ... allow me a small rant. You know the Numbers thread? Well, I don't care about Adam's numbers, but since childhood I have been obsessed with a certain set of other numbers. For you teachers out there ... in 1976, when I was in the 6th grade, we students were given an Electoral College map to color in for the election between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. I LOVED it. The next time I tracked election numbers all year long and made an elaborate notebook of events and numbers. I still have all the notebooks I made between 1980 and 1996. After that the Internet took over and I just follow along online.

The point is that every four years, I've tracked presidential polls and state-by-state electoral college numbers, irrespective of the prospects of the candidate I'm supporting. As a matter of fact, I've supported the losing candidate more often than the winner. And don't try to figure out how I've voted -- I swing both ways, I'm an independent. LOL. It is so interesting to me to try to understand who is voting, how they are voting, and why, in every state.

So I have to miss the last weekend of the campaign and all the last minute polls.

Maybe the universe is saving me from myself, who knows?

End of rant!

I'll be around a little today, then I won't see you guys until Wednesday morning. Smooches to all and especially nikki and melliemom.