Ramblings of the Mildly Insane

Wow – I finally did it…I know I’ve been saying it for oh so long…but I’ve finally done it. I’ve tweaked the insanity!

I’ve changed the design around a little bit and added a new header, however it should still have the same “feel”, just a little more organized and not so loose. The menu bar should actually work in IE now (I know I said I wasn’t going to do it – but it was a side effect of the update). I’ve kept all the stuff I said I was and there isn’t enough change to call it v2.0, so I’ll just call this v.1.2

There are still a few bugs I need to work through – but for the most part, it’s done for now…

Disclaimer: If you’re using IE, you’re not getting all the wonderful turbosalamander goodness of the design (sorry).

Accessibility Statement: This site isn’t very accessible. At least not to any older browsers…I may add more accessibility/usability later on (or in another lifetime)

Validation: If the site doesn’t validate – oh well, I’ll worry about that later (or in another lifetime)…

Feel free to let me know what you think of the tweaked design

I am thoroughly disappointed in FL and the direction their votes went – I am proud of my county though . If it wasn’t for the podunk north, I believe Kerry would have had FL…

I think the main things that Bush had going for him is the fact that Hussein was captured and although Bin Laden has reared his ugly head to let the world know he’s still alive, Americans are banking on the hope that Bush will be able to hunt him down and kill him too. It’s such a delicate time right now that many people didn’t want to start fresh with a new president, they wanted to see resolution and putting a new president in half way through may muddle things even more. However I don’t really buy that…

Also, the whole "moral" issue. I do believe that the US as a whole needs a strong belief system – however, I don’t believe it should be the hardnosed Catholic, Christian, or any denominational belief system. I personally believe in seperation of church as state, however, I do believe everyone should have a belief system in place, and the US should remind everyone that a belief system is necessary for the overall good (regardless of which one you subscribe to – i.e. if it harms none, do as you will).

I was expecting a lot more young people to vote – what the hell happened?! I’m seeing statistics that show the same amount of young people (18-29) voted this year as in 2000 – that’s just not right…overall, I am glad to see /more/ people voting this year than in 2000 overall – that was something lovely to see.

If Mr. Bush won this election fair and square, I believe congratulations are in order for the Bush/Republican supporters. However, information I’m stumbling across now is a bit frightening. An article on how diebold planned to deliver Ohio to the republicans and a Discovery Times program on how the election could have been easily fixed using the Diebold technology – now, what’s truly scary is that an individual woman, not a computer geek by any means, somehow managed to find the Diebold source code by Googling – which, not surprisingly, can be easily hacked – ouch. This was something I wasn’t paying much attention to while I was voting on an electronic machine, but it certainly does make me think now. I’m not about to call the election a fraud, but it makes me raise an eyebrow.

All in all, I hope for the best for this nation – I strongly believe everything happens for a reason, so we will need to see how this plays out to see the true reason. I hope Bush sees what’s important for this nation and acts swiftly and decisively to make America better, all personal vendettas aside…

And on the bright side – at least after this 4 year term, we can be assured Bush will not be back in office…I’m just worried about who they’re going to find to fill the slack…

And it’s official – I have cast my vote.

I know I was to vote on Sunday with my sister, but the both of us royally had a lazy day and neither of us seemed to be able to drag our arses from our respective beds…so we postponed until Monday at 8:30am (when the polls opened). She would drive straight to my house after work and then I would drive her truck over to the polls since she’d be dead tired after an all-nighter at the hospital.

Turns out, when we arrived at the polls (around 8:35am) there were roughly 300+ people in line waiting to vote – my poor sister looked like she was gonna cry and asked me to take her home cuz she was never going to make it through the line on no sleep and then having to go work at the Urgent Care in only a few hours. So, the Monday voting game got delayed.

Well, finally, the heavens shined down on me! I thought the line at my polling location was going to be really really bad, but oddly enough, when I arrived, there was only about a hundred people in line and it only took about 45-50 minutes to make it to the front – not very bad at all (thank goodness).

I even got called an angel – sort of. I think my goofy smile and cheerful semi-clueless bantor on some of the issues helped to brighten a few people’s mornings which I’m glad for. The gentleman behind me said as I got my voting slip, “did you get hurt?” – me, foolishly thinking he was referring to our previous conversations about healthcare, injury, and malpractice, commented “yes, when I was younger I broke my ankle, but it wasn’t anyone’s fault…” and he looked at me and said (with a laugh) “no, I meant when you fell from heaven” – oh goodness I could have died laughing! We had a little chit chat about his wife and his daughter (whom he was mad at for not voting) and he thought I was only 18 or 19 ROFL!!!

I can’t believe it, first I get carded for buying one of those cute little heineken keg can of beer – and the lady at the register refused to budge until she saw some ID and now this guy swearing I’m still a teenager…geez, I knew I looked younger without any makeup, but I swear I didn’t think I looked that young…

Okay, back to the subject of voting…it was quick and painless (sort of) – I was very glad I brought my sample ballot as my reference so I could just check my preselected answers (which greatly sped up my voting time) and when I walked outside, I believe I said kind of loudly “I JUST VOTED! YAAY!” towards my sister and everyone started giggling . My sister explained that it was my first time voting and then everyone applauded (apparently, I was the only first time voter there – or at least the only one excited to be voting)…

Well, now that it’s done – I’ll have my cute little keg can, a baked potato (with yummy cheddar cheese on top), and my ravioli’s all ready to go for the election tonight…soon, I’ll be able to point at the t.v. and say “woo hoo, I participated! I helped to make history…”