Twas the Day Before Thanksgiving

It's a snowy morning here in Amherst (and on GI when I left home). They've been getting wholloped in the Southern Tier this week, but we've had rain for the last few days, which melted the snow that we got last week. It's still too warm for it to be nice snow -- it's 32 degrees. So it's a wet sloppy mess for the most part.

Because Ethan stayed home with Russ and Will, I stopped at the local coffee shop to grab breakfast. A yummy egg, ham and cheese sandwich on foccaccia and the best decaf coffee I've ever had. While I was waiting for my sandwich to be made (yes, they made it from scratch), I noticed a number of homey-looking pies on one of the work tables. Cherry pies. I asked, and all but the one with the almond-crumble top were already spoken for. Well, I bought that one for dessert for tomorrow. It was still warm. Ahhhhhh.......

Of course, on the radio they had to do the story on Thanksgiving travel. Someone (I think from AAA), said that "Thanksgiving is a magnitudinous holiday." Huh.

Our New President

This was posted on the New York Times website four minutes ago:

"Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, as the country chose him as its first black chief executive."

Amen.

He won Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Three huge swing states. Amazing. There will be no questioning this ending. Not like the last two elections. I couldn't dare to hope. I mean, I did hope, but I didn't want to get my hopes up too high, having had them dashed over the last eight years. But this is real.

Will he bring the United States back up in the eyes of the world? I think so.