This morning I left the house around 8:00 and went by the polling place on my way to work. I thought that if the line wasn’t too long that I might stop and vote early. But the line was huge - there wasn’t even any place to park the car.

I went on in to work and killed a couple hours there. Then I got up around 10:30 and told everyone that I wanted to go vote and no one gave me a hard time about being gone. So I drove back to the polling place and there was no line at all. I was able to go inside and check in and vote and get back out in only about 15 minutes. I have a little white sticker on my lapel that says, “I Voted.”

Then I went back to work and everyone was pretty cool about me being gone. I can’t wait to see the results tongiht on TV.

This week’s remark about Gov. Palin by Obama just tickled me. A good friend of mine uses “Lipstick on a Pig” as his screen name for the online multiplayer games that we play. I’ve always thought it was a very clever name, and it gets a lot of comments from the opponents - which is precisely the effect he wanted.

But Obama meant more than just a slight insult to Palin by using that term, don’t you think? Ahh, let the mud slinging and wallowing begin!

This year I can only imagine how many people are going to be utilizing the Internet for the fantastic deals that are always offered on line on cyber monday.  With tons of people turning to on line shopping for the sole reason of saving cash money, there may possibly be a lot less people storming the retail chains on the day after Thanksgiving known as “Black Friday”.

I know my wife won’t ever attempt the Black Friday madness ever again, once was enough for her and she has managed to find deals using other methods, rather than deal with all of that craziness. These people that wait in line since the wee hours of the morning in all kinds of nasty weather and the wild and wacky things that happen each year usually end up on the evening news and is very discouraging.

This year she has found a web-site called Blackfriday.biz that offers tons of savings to be had on Cyber Monday this year and has all ready bookmarked the link for her favorite holiday shopping retail store, Target, which is only one of hundreds of merchants that are offering savings and promotions for this huge event that can take place in the privacy of your own home. The wife has already spread the word about this savings opportunity by emailing the link to their web-site to all of her friends and family, along with a post or two on her blog that she manages to find time to keep up to date some how.

The Internet just keeps making life easier and easier these days!

The 3 day weekend celebration for Labor Day has officially arrived and the weather is making it a challenge for anyone to make any type of plans for any kind of outside activities so it is any one’s guess and we will just have to take it one day at a time.

Took the family out to dinner tonight at our favorite family restaurant, The Golden Coral, their large buffet makes it the perfect place to take everyone and suites every ones needs and wants perfectly, and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg either. I thought that it would have been packed, being as it being a Friday night and all, but we were pleasantly surprised to find that it was not busy what so ever and had a whole section that was empty at one point. Guess the economy really has hit this area hard, if the Golden Coral isn’t able to keep at full restaurant on what is usually the busiest night of the week for local restaurants in this area.

A good place to find a massive inventory of surefire illuminating tools, such as flashlights, beam filters, weapon lights and accessories galore, can be found at LAPolicegear.com and there is currently a promotion that offers FREE Ground Shipping of any Surefire product order of $50 or more. And another fantastic offer, of which I found very interesting, is that they provide you with FREE Batteries with most of their lights, just not on any of their many closeout sale items.

My father has owned one of these Surefire flashlights and has always thrilled with it and has never been disappointed with it’s performance, it appears that this would be a good time to order one for myself to rely on as well, these are the best flashlights that have ever been put on the market, you can count on that.