A Special Day

Today is special for several reasons. Can you think of what that might be?

Well that is not fair. Rather than make you think to hard lets begin by wishing Roxi Moon and happy 24th Birthday. I hope you do your birthday up proud tonight Roxi. I am sure the town will never be the same again. Oh and try and keep those clothes on.

Well now what to get your for this special occasion. Well lets start out with a cake but not just any cake. I think Roxi calls for something unique. So here is the cake I got you.


Now next we need to get you an outfit for the occasion. Now not knowing your size and not being a metrosexual like someone, I guess we will need to just settle for this outfit.


Now Halle Berry is not included but if you like I can inquire how much extra it would be.

I think we need to take care of the footwear next. I think these will do nicely.
I figure after you and Dan hit the bars and have a great time, you will need somewhere special to go. I hope this will work for you.



And finally, not knowing for sure what you will be drinking and since one can never have enough, how about some spending money. But of course we can't just do this the normal way. So how about this.


Now the rest is up to you to. Have fun you two.



Now the other reason today is special is it is time to vote. We are having primaries for non national offices tomorrow.

Now I have not felt like voting for years. There just never seems to be any candidates running that I want to vote for. Even when I do see someone I like, someone that I think might represent me well, that candidate loses. That is right, I vote for losers. Don't ever ask me to vote for you.


So why is today special for me? Well you see a long, long time ago in a land far, far away, I used to work for a research company. One of many things we did was do political work. We helped draft new district boundaries and plot them. We build large registered voter lists and generated phone lists, walk lists, etc. We also did exit polling in Michigan and I must say we were good. I remember many times knowing by 10:30 to 11:00 who was going to win. We knew which districts to poll, we knew how much to weight them. We knew where something unusual was happening and were able to expand our sample to correct for that. Yes we were good.

Now this was exciting in itself. I was involved back in the office with collection of data and cranking out results. I was more or less in command center which was fun. One year I was even at the television studio that had hired us feeding them numbers directly to their prompters. If you looked you could see me in the background when they were doing the local coverage for election night. That was also the night I got to speak with Mayor Coleman Young. Now I did not speak with him much but I was really impressed with how smart and how well connected he was.

I also loved being at the studio. You could see just how fake everything was. Just out of the view of the camera was lights, sets from many others shows, the lottery equipment, you name it. I have always been a sucker for this sort of thing.

Now what was best of all is the election party the company through. It was the best. They reserved several rooms and even had rooms if someone had a bit to much to drink. You would find sets everywhere. One or two of the rooms were reserved for fairly serious viewing of election returns and I believe more than a few cigars were always going. And then there was the main room that was were most people were. You could watch the returns, get drinks and even listen to some music.

Election nights will always be special to me. I always follow the returns now. I generally don't go out and monitor as many stations as I can. I stay up way to late and slowly watch the numbers change and finally see what is declared. This election should be interesting as they changed almost all of our voting systems. Hopefully everything goes well.

So now you know my little secret. I love election night. Not because there is someone I really want to see win but because but just for the memories of times gone by.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROXI!