(I will not begin with lame excuses or apologies for not writing more. We moved in on September 11th, 2008 and are still working to get settled, but enjoying it. )Well, yesterday was "Decision Day 2008" for the citizens of the USA. Time to elect a new President. Apparently there were more people who turned out to vote this year than at any time prior, and the percentage of registered voters was higher than virtually any time this century. Apparently some people felt a sense of urgency in the air!
My parents went to vote in our little country polling place and had to wait an hour and a half to get to the voting booth. That was another first. In the past...well...you'd have to get into a deep conversation with the staff in order to have a reason to stay so long. It wouldn't be so odd to get in a deep conversation with the staff because they were always friends and/or relationships....remember I said "rural" and I meant "RURAL"! :-) Some friends in Florida said they had to wait over two hours to vote. Apparently Florida, embarassed about the "hanging chads" of a certain prior election, Florida now has ballots that you fill in and put into a scanner to be electronically read. If you can't figure out how to use a punch ballot, surely you won't be able to run a scanner! hehehe That seemed to be the issue causing such a long wait for my friends. People couldn't get the scanner to accept their ballots.
(As for us rednecks in Virginia...well...how much can you mess up a touchscreen? I'll have to admit that while I was there, they had a slight fiasco when somebody walked away without pushing the "enter" button to tally their vote...)
At any rate...I was headed down the road yesterday and next door to a polling place, I saw the sign at the top of this post. "Gods way is americas way!" I am not quite sure what the message means, but I am assuming it had something to do with the author's preferred candidate. ...hmm...which candidate DIDN'T have God on his side? I thought they both tried to drag him into their camp... Hmm....maybe time will tell. It usually does.
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If I was a provocative American preacher then I would have added a '?' mark to the end of that sign and used it a sermon title for this coming Sunday's message. Nothing like a bit of marketing to pull in the crowds hey Greg :-)
I'm just sad that as a non American I didn't get to vote in the election. I hear chick-fill-a were giving away free sandwiches to those who showed they had voted. (Would have need some good southern sustenance if I had to stand in line for 3 hours to vote). Could have washed it down with some of that free apple cider the Fletcher household is giving away.
Anyhow had a good time in Japan on the way home. Stayed in the Narita area (Aussie dollar/Yen took yet a further nose dive at the time) as travel to Tokyo was looking more impractical. Felt I got a good insight into the place and why your heart is still very much for this country. Tried saying 'mocha grasis' (Spanish for thank you) to everyone. Must have been a hanger on from my Peru trip. A similar thing happened to me in PNG when I found myself saying 'merci' to the nationals after being in Niger. Anyhow my time in Japan got me thinking and .... well that's a conversation for another time.
So I hope life in your part of the world is not to shabby at the moment. Looks like it will be (only) me again next year. Ran the figures for the Mexico wedding and talked with Amanda about traveling all that way with the girls and figure it is not going to happen which is a shame. But if you are still missing your 'baby' (Go Reachout) she is crying at the moment and I would be happy for you to come over and change her diaper anytime.
God bless,
Michael
Ahhh, dominion theology, don't ya love it! (not).
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