Woot!

Geez, I'm too old to be using the word "woot." What the hell am I thinking? I guess I'm just in a good mood today in spite of the GOP taking over the state of Georgia, and in spite of finding out today that the 4% salary increase for state employees in January will be accompanied with a 12% increase in insurance premiums. Four more years...four more years of this crap. This is the only place I've ever worked where you can get a raise and actually be worse off and make less than you had been.

Perhaps I'm in a good mood for two reasons. One, it's official: the Democrats will take over both houses of Congress. Yee-hah! On one hand, I'm glad that they've won and will hopefully govern in a manner in line with what I think is important. On the other hand, I hope the Dems don't whiz this opportunity down their collective leg. The Democrats have been known the past couple of decades of pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory, of shooting themselves in the foot politically. Please, oh please, not this time!

I'm also in a good mood because for the first time in quite a while I bought hockey tickets yesterday! My friend Greg and I had been talking about going to a game last season but it didn't pan out, so we've been discussing going to one this season. As luck would have it, my beloved New York Islanders are coming to Atlanta one Friday evening in January! And I have tickets just six rows off the glass. In theory that should be close enough to catch a few broken teeth as players get checked into the boards. Atlanta has a good team this year, so I don't expect the Isles to come out on the winning end, but that's not the point. I get to see them play for the first time since 1991, when they came to Atlanta to play an exhibition game against the Boston Bruins. Sweet! Game on!!