Hi ho, I've been reading for a while, too, & happily absorbing the collective knowledge of everyone who posts. Yesterday, at coffee with the gang, one who has kids prefaced a discussion of politics with "This morning, as I turned on Sesame Street, I saw that the poll numbers were..." I patiently waited through a half hour discussion of political predictions ("not even standing on one leg could make that interesting"), before changing the subject by noting that the Telly the Tiebreaker episode was going to re-air on election day. But they went right back to politics & I went back to my imagination. Then, this afternoon, I saw a news article titled "Paper towels solve NC soggy ballot crisis," and I immediately thought--where is Lew when you need him? So I decided it's about time I joined the forum. so hello everybodeeee!