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"The only constant in life is change, right?" That was a question I heard the other day on a radio show. Of course there's the change I'm not to happy with, Sirius satellite radio taking over XM and going through and changing channels or channel formats that I'd come to really like. The programing changes happened at 9 Pm (pacific) on Tuesday the 11th and some channels 'poof disappeared' and others became more like subscription FM stations with all the annoyingly "cute" canned DJ stuff, everything wrong with regular radio just short of having blocks of commercials added. Got me thinking though about change in general, what do you think? It sure doesn't seem like that would be a truism normally, but then thinking back to what Stacy, the kids and myself were doing three years ago and what we're all doing today, lives I would never have imagined and where all our lives would be and what we'd be doing now! So really think about it. It is ...

Yes we're sure glad the elections are over, that is a really good thing. But we're even more happy that they're over because of the CONSTANT commercials on TV and the, seemed like, every night calls at home. With the stretched out length of this election "season" (as it was referred to on many programs!), and with those increasingly annoying TV adds and calls to sway votes, we quit answering the phone all together, were really bad and lasted so much longer this time around. And with our ability to see regional TV from other locations in the US and Canada, what we didn't see for more local stuff, we saw the same kinds of things for those areas instead. It was interesting at times, and thoughts of how things could have changed if the actual election had been held earlier with the rush of pro Palin, or if Obama had chosen Hillary instead of Biden, just so many things this time around had potential for some serious changes to the outcome! But we've got what ...