Ross Perot 08!

Wait... he's not running? Huh... Um... How about Matlock 08!?

That joke seemed funnier in my head than it does written out. Oh well. Not like that hasn't happen before!

Seriously though, I had an interesting voting experience today. I, like many of you, have heard the horror stories of waiting forever in line in order to get in there and vote. So I was prepared. I got to bed early last night (about midnight for me), and got up at 7:15 this morning. I made my coffee, washed up, and enjoyed a delicious breakfast of cereal and toast while watching Mike and Mike on ESPN2. Then, fearing the worst at the polls, I got set for every potential set-back. I grabbed an older pay-stub for proof of address as well as my PSP in case the line was crazy long. Nothing wrong with getting some Final Fantasy in on voting day, right?

So I was set to wait for at least half an hour and up to a couple of hours. I drove into my polling place at about 7:55am. And the parking lot was... empty. Bewildered, I thought maybe I was parking in the wrong lot. Seeing no signs, I walked in and saw the room in front of me empty with the exception of the poll workers. So I gave my name, got my number and ballot, filled it in, dropped it in the receptical and was out in less than two minutes.

Hardly the long wait that I was expecting. I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to have a more excrutiating story to tell friends and family. Not to mention I was looking forward to getting a little PSP action in... So I went home and decided to play there! It was great to get full use of my day though, rather than waking up so late. Maybe I won't be lazy and this could be an upcoming trend... though I doubt it.

Here's your Web Waster for election day:

MentalFloss - This is a really cool site to read up on useless trivia. It has stories across all kinds of topics. Some light and fluffy, others hard and opinionated. But I characterize this site as Discovery Channel's cool shows (i.e. Dirty Jobs, Cash Cab, Mythbusters) in magazine form. I guarantee that after a few visits, your Trivial Pursuit skills will exponentially increase.