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It's my birthday :-)  It has already started out well; Kip made me breakfast (waffles with Real Maple Syrup). 

( House stuff )

At some point (possibly today) we will go to Red Lobster for my birthday dinner.  I will probably have (what else?) lobster. :-)  I am going to make my own cake this year rather than having us spend the money for an icecream cake.  It will probably be brownies because I like brownies.  I'm not sure whether to get some whipping cream and make chocolate whipped cream to go with it, or whether to get some toffee bits to sprinkle on the top instead.  Or I may do both :-)

Kip and I splurged and got a new laptop to be our birthday present to each other and our Christmas present to each other.  (Plus most of it came out of our computer account, which we use to save up for new computers.)  Now we have two Eve-capable computers in the house and can theoretically play Eve as a team.  Unfortunately Odin (the other Eve-capable computer) has been in the shop since the day after we got Ariadne, so we've only done it once, but it is a theoretical possiblity.

Some thoughts on Georgia's election

Well, it's a pity, but getting 60 seats in the Senate was probably more than we could reasonably expect. 

And really, I don't think it makes *that* much difference--60 Democrats wouldn't be a filibuster proof majority, because 60 Democrats are like 60 cats--you can't expect them all to agree on *anything*.  A filibuster-proof majority of Democrats would be about 65 or 66, and there was never any hope of that.  So the difference between 60 and 59 or 58 isn't all that great.

Of course, the idea that a Democratic agenda is something the country needs to be "protected from" is laughable, but that's the GOP for you.  I think we can rescue the economy, increase investment in alternative energy to wean us off foreign oil and fossil fuels in general, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, restore and secure women's human rights, restore the separation of church and state, restore and secure protection for the environment that makes our economy even possible, close Guantanimo Bay, end American use of torture, restore habeas corpus, restore balance and competence to the Justice department, [later edit--end the Bush Administration's war on science,] end the war in Iraq, and maybe even make progress in the war in Afghanistan, even with the Republicans hanging off our elbows.

I'd really like to see them legalize gay marriage and include birth control as part of foreign aid, but I suppose that's too much to hope for.

Boy, that's a big to-do list.  Best of luck to President-elect Obama and the incoming Congress.

What would your wishlist for the next four years be?