It is late at night and I am still tired from staying up until 4AM to watch the election results roll in. I slept in, but that meant I got 4 hours sleep instead of 2. I have to say I am going to practice the restore sanity mantra and assume that the Republicans will try and do what is best for the country. It just doesn’t seem to make sense to reduce the deficit when we are still struggling economically, but it will be interesting to see what they plan to cut. I hope they start with Farm Subsidies. I don’t understand the desire to reduce the deficit and reduce taxes that seems a little like getting the government out of Medicare. Well we will see what happens. I remain hopeful and respectful of the difference in opinion.

We bought a bunch of wood today for the Winter. We spent about 2 hours stacking it in the garage. The kids were a great help. I think it will last the Winter. I like making warm fires in the fireplace. I have been having problems with the Internet connection lately. I will be in the middle of a phone call and the connection will just die. Tom and Antoine dropped by after going to the movies nearby and I asked them to call the tech support for help. They really didn’t want to, but they knew that I couldn’t do it. Orange (the Internet provider) said that they did see a problem with the line and they would try and provision the line to work better. I have no idea how they will do that, but they said they would. I learned a difference between my attitude (American?) and theirs (French?) I wanted for Orange to just tell me what it was going to take and what it was going to cost to get the problem solved permanently now. Tom and Antoine thought that what I was saying made no sense. They thought that Orange should make it work since it was their job to do so. But they also were resigned that it might take a lot of badgering to get them to do so.

I keep muddling along at work. My boss cancelled our one on one today. I felt a sigh of relief. I have enough to do, but I know that I don’t really do much. I am not quite sure that I have resigned myself to this simple state of lazy work. I guess if it were a government job where I knew I wouldn’t be laid off or fired I would be even more relaxed. This is not the kind of work I enjoy. I preferred working at AM/PM helping people buy their cigarettes. That was a good job. It didn’t pay very well and I certainly couldn’t do it in France.

Kim and I walked around town for about an hour today. Life is very very good.