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difficult decisions

Am noodling around on here (ooooohhh slideshow is cool) while I watch the US election coverage on telly. Jon Sopel seems to have found a coffee called Obama-chino in Virginia. Can't decide whether to go to bed now and wake up early to hear the historic result... or do I stay up and see the first results... or do I go to bed and listen to it on the radio all night but then I won't get any sleep and I have an early start at work tomorrow... Maybe I should run a poll?

This is a Big Night.

Comments

David Weeks said…
Sleep.
The world will be very little different by the time you wake ~ only the names will have changed.
Anonymous said…
But what changes!!

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