Man, yesterday was great huh! I mean, Obama cleaning house, democrats taking huge majority in house and senate… Hopefully this will be the beginning of a new, New Deal sort of era where we can all work together and bring this country back to where it should be. I must admit, Obama really, REALLY knows how to inspire, but inspire not just in an idealist sense but in a very real and tangible one. Watching him speak, you really get drawn in to his passion for this country and getting it right. I’m not at all one to swoon over newly elected leaders (or leaders at all for that matter) but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t tear up at least a couple times watching him speak and acknowledge the crowd of a quarter million in that park last night. Anyone who questions his patriotism after that is a fool. You have to be a black hearted cynic to not have felt even the slightest bit of hope watching him up there. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/05/sot.obama.entire.cnn

Unfortunately my night of hope and good feelings ended shortly after that speech. It snowed a bit last night which turned I-70 into a sheet of ice which is never good when you’re trying to get a good night’s sleep. I totally jinxed it the other day when I was talking up how good it’s been to get paid to sleep like 10 hours every night for the last month or more for we were up all night. Shit. And of course, I actually had stuff to do today.