Best. Week. Ever.
I would just like to take a moment to review a recent seven-day period:
Wednesday, October 29: The Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series at home, ending a 25-year drought for the city’s four major sports teams.
Friday, October 31: I take my daughter trick-or-treating. She has chosen to go out as Princess Leia. This occurs on the same day as the parade honoring the 2008 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies.
Sunday, November 2: My birthday. To celebrate, several members of my family come by to visit, including my two cousins from Georgia. (This site also celebrates its eighth anniversary.)
Tuesday, November 4: The country elects Barack Obama – who had previously announced that he would be cheering for the 2008 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies – as the next President of the United States.
Seriously – 1996 is the year Pattie and I started going out, and 2002 is the year my daughter was born. Those are the only two years I can think of that 2008 does not blow right out of the water on the basis of that week alone. Stephen Colbert joked that the Large Hadron Collider had thrown us into a parallel universe exactly like our own, except Obama was president and the Phillies are world champions. If so, I really need to buy those Collider folks a beer. I like it here.
And now that my brain is not overloaded with campaign stuff, and now that I harbor some hope that smart policies might actually have a chance to be implemented, I’m hoping to have some more brain space to devote to the site here.
About Dave Thomer
Born and raised in Philadelphia. Studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, where I made many great friends and met my wonderful wife. We moved back to Philadelphia, where I studied philosophy some more and became a teacher. Online and off, I'm looking for ways that we can be better citizens and build stronger communities.