Now it's time for a change

The problem with democracy is that people who don't agree with me get to vote. I hope three years of a National/ACT government will show them the error of their ways.

10 good things about the election

1. I live in a democracy where I have the right to vote, I can vote without intimidation, voting is easy, accessible and popular*, and I am confident that all votes are fairly counted.
   
2. Winston Peters is finally out of parliament \o/
   
3. I voted in H & K's classroom surrounded by their, and their classmates, art.
   
4. There'll be at least two more Green MPs in parliament.
   
5. A fairy queen and a fairy princess came with me to vote.
6. I am now represented by an openly gay MP.
   
7. The way the National party got in was by backing most changes Labour have introduced.
   
8. I'm told there is a better quality of political comedy under right wing governments.
   
9. MMP continues to encourage diversity in parliment. For the first time there will be a Sikh MP.
   
10. I got to use a big fat orange pen.

* 78% turnout of registered voters.

Objects in mirror are closer than they appear

Last night we huddled around a laptop and watched Obama make political history in America and then went outside and let of fireworks to mark political history in England. It's not that it is so much a small world as that we are at one end of the binoculars and the USA and UK are at the other.

Treating tricks

A couple of updates:

I have been to the neurological ophthalmologist (because I couldn't get an appointment with a neurologist [backstory here then here]) and he says that my jerky eye tracking is "asymptomatic" and I should only worry if it starts to cause me problems, e.g. nausea. Given that my concern is that it is a symptom of something else this is only partly reassuring. I am trying hard to be reassured as there is no advantage in worrying. He is also going to chat to a neurologist about it and let me know what they say.

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My plan for world domination is progressing, this year we lured 99 trick or treaters to our door. Last year we had 70. I think next year I should cater for 130.