Too Little, Too Late?

Why start a blog about my political views 2 days after the historic election? Maybe I didn't want to give all my good ideas away to John McCain and spoil Obama's party. Maybe I'm not 2 days too late, but starting very early for 2012. Maybe it's because I believe that a good idea is still a good idea, even if it's not timely to the current debate. Whatever. During the coming weeks, months and years I intend to use this blog to record my views and ideas on how to improve America, to restore our image around the world, and trim the dead-weight that is dragging us down.

A little about me:
My name is Randy Shore. I'm roughly the same age as our President-Elect and I live in Ventura, California. I'm a database programmer and SQL developer, working 4 days each week for a Bay-area law firm and doing independent consulting work on Fridays. I'm one of those lucky people you've heard about who telecommute, working from my home and connecting to my office over the internet. I'm in that group of the top 5% of U.S. wage earners who pay over half of all the nation's taxes, and yet I'm still a Democrat. I have 2 young sons, Brodie, age 9 and Nik, almost 5 years old. I'm happily married to my first wife, Marion, and don't anticipate the need to trade her in on a newer model in the future. I mow my own lawn, attend PTA meetings, volunteer in my community (although not as much as I might,) and coach my son's soccer team. We cook our own meals and eat breakfast and dinner together as a family at the table in our kitchen. We have 2 cars parked inside of our two-car garage, a 1996 Chrysler mini-van that we've put 147,000 miles on, and a new Honda Civic that we bought this year, replacing the 1994 Saturn that we had owned for 14 years. My wife and I haven't had a "date" in years; we enjoy spending time with our children and would rather cuddle on the couch and watch what we've TIVO'd than go see a movie. I've seen 2 movies in the last 3 years, and both of those were matinees and animated.

Am I Joe Six-Pack? Maybe. Joe Six-Pack doesn't need to wear a hard-hat and carry a metal lunch pail to the plant each day to represent America; he just needs to work hard every day, add more to his country than he takes from it, and love America enough to want to make it better. Yeah. That's me.