The poll results are in. Now for the next several months, I presume that we won’t be hearing as much from President-elect Obama and possibly a bit more from President Incumbent.

Last night I was in bed and asleep at 8:30 in the evening — something that is not all that common for me. As a result I didn’t watch the votes coming in and listen to all the political mumbo-jumbo on the tube. When Alexei decided it was time to get up at four this morning, for some reason the thought didn’t even cross my mind to find out who had won. Instead we just played until about six.

A few hours later when we got up, Anastasia asked if I knew who had won. My first reply was McCain. The second was Mickey Mouse. Finally, she told me. Which brings me to the point of this post: I don’t do news much.

I opened up my web browser and started typing “news” in the location bar. The first thing that auto-completed was BBC. Up for a non-American take on the situation, I clicked. Of course the main event was the American election, but scrolling down a little revealed that Windows 3.1 reached its end of life last Saturday.

Ah, the good old days. I don’t remember which birthday it was, but my parents bought me a copy of Windows 3.1 and a mouse from the Electronics Boutique store at the Columbia Mall (which at that time was called that). I’ll need to find a picture of that birthday just to see what my facial expression was. In my memory, I was the happiest kid around — I had a mouse. What more could there be to life? Remembrance is a wonderful thing; I don’t recall struggling with drivers or trying to find an additional 3k of RAM to free up, but the non-ergonomic 3-button white mouse.