Oh, and ita - picture in this post - spectacles?

Mold is no small problem. Hubby's and my first apartment had mold behind contact paper that had been used for wallpaper, and it nearly killed me.

Owen tried the same thing with Crayolas with considerably less success.

made me laugh and laugh

What did not make me laugh this morning was posting on the adoption group list I am on. First a string of posts - "YAY a brown president, my kids can see what is possible in this country and see leadership that looks like them"....then..."how can you have your kids look to this man as anything good when he supports the genocide of thousands of unborn babies....Our lord and saviour says..." oy vey! The discussion has been stopped because politics and religion unrelated to the adoption of our kids is against list rules, but I think I am going to have to go post that I was horrified at the posts and would prefer to NOT know the other posters politics or religious beliefs - find another board for that.

Seeing the signs on the Lamp posts in the picture made me misty.

Just found out something interesting. I knew before that no Republican had ever won the White House without Ohio. Turns out that no Democrat has ever won the White House without Missouri - until now.

My theory on Missouri is that there are two bases the urban cores of St. Louis and Kansas City for the Democrats and outstate regions for the Republicans. The suburbs of the large cities are the swing areas and have plenty of Reagan Democrats who just didn't quite break enough for Obama to keep the bellweather status.

Seeing the signs on the Lamp posts in the picture made me misty.

Huh. I didn't read the whole article - Mayor Daily has been a big supporter of Obama, right? So maybe it's payback time for Chicago, huh?

It's still possible that Obama could pick on one electoral vote from Nebraska, since it allocates Electors by Congressional district.

If the alarm doesn't go off, I do not wake up.

If I turn off the alarm by accident the night before, the alarm does not go off.

I woke ridiculously late this morning.

At least I got plenty of sleep?

Huh. I didn't read the whole article - Mayor Daily has been a big supporter of Obama, right? So maybe it's payback time for Chicago, huh?

I'm guessing bigtime.

Speaking of, Rahm Emmanuel is an unexpected pick here (to me). Very tied in to DNC power structures, and a foe of the 50-state strategy that got us here. But also seems to be something of a hatchet man and an enforcer. Man picked himself a wartime consigliere. Fascinating.

(Also: the people who were flipping out because OMG Hussein he must be a Muslim terrorist unamercian woe!!1! must be seriously fucking losing it when his first named picked is this guy. Not that I know or care what Rahm's religious background might or might not be, myself, but then, I'm not a whacked-out nut job.)

And I wonder who's getting Obama's seat?

And I wonder who's getting Obama's seat?

If called, I will serve.