I don’t think I could have summed up my upcoming day any better than this. Its going to be hell, I can feel it. The only bright side is that I get free food for dinner. And I get between 3 and 4 hours of overtime pay. Of course, its free food that’s picked over by the other 100 people in the office for god knows how long, and the overtime pay is not the fun kind of “can you come in for 4 hours to make sure the TV’s don’t go off” overtime I can usually count on. This is going to be dirty elbows, nose to the grindstone, kick me in the balls overtime. Fortunately, the next day, everyone should take a quick deep breath and snooze through the day. The operative word here being “should”. With all the acceptance speeches and 372.4 miles of raw tape coming at us tomorrow, Wednesday might be even worse. Good thing that’s my Friday.
I don’t have the detailed predictions that Dan has, though one number I’ve tossed in my head for a couple weeks is 281. If I have to make a guess (and not by tallying any “combinations” or totals or anything, just guessing), I’ll say that Bush will pick up 281 electoral votes and stay in office. Once that’s made official in June 2006, we can start looking toward the next election. Unfortunately, Montgomery Brewster is likely to not pick up any electoral votes.
Though here’s a twist no one’s thought of, I don’t think…
Say we get the convoluted mess we had in 2000, but worse. By mid-December, lets pretend that three Supreme Court justices pass away. (It would be a hell of a coincidence, but they ARE in their 120’s, you know.) If the vote gets to the Supreme Court, do they need a full nine members to come to a decision? If so, how fast can Dubya appoint his mom, dad and Laura to the Supreme Court, at least long enough to make him President again, but then get turned down and he has to pick three REAL judges? It’s 2AM on election day, I’m allowed to have bizarre thoughts like that. I *could* have said to nominate Fred Flinstone, Bart Simpson and John F. Kennedy, but they’re too busy voting Democrat in Ohio.
Okay, election stuff is gone. I almost got real patriotic and turned this page into a red, white and blue-a-thon, but 1AM was too early to try to figure out the CSS that would kick my ass anyway. In theory, it had pretty stars and stripes, and a ballot, too! I did, however, make a nice little button for my Christmas list. Its actually just my Amazon list, but if I can throw a good amount of stuff in there, I can just point at it when anyone asks if I have a Christmas list.
I had thought of doing something similar for the nauseating NFL picks Pete and I have been doing, but its coming up on Week 9, and I’m getting my ass kicked, so I thought I’d pass. I did win this week, with a whopping 6 games right. I think that cuts Pete’s weeks won lead down to 5-3, and I’m within 6 games total. Plenty of time, my friends… plenty of time.
One final election note, actually…
There has been alot said and done in the last 9 months or more, too much to sift through, but if there is one thing to remember through all of this, Michele says it perfectly.
Thank you, good night, don’t drink and vote!