" If I only had more time..."

That was the forlorn lament I used to cry, when I didn't manage to accomplish all that I thought I would that week. Now, for nine months, we have had time, loads of time, and I still don't get everything on my Do List crossed off. Is it really a lack of will power? I don't think so, or else NOTHING would get done. I think it's that every day you wake up to a clean slate, joyfully anticipating a day full of accomplishments, and as soon as you sit in front of the computer, people start messing with you. Have you noticed that there is a lack of efficiency, a lack of responsibility, a lack of reliability in everything that relates to making life a little easier? The Mail Order Pharmacy screws up every order of a necessary drug. The Insurance company "can't find you" in their records. You make an appointment and find out that the van driver doesn't report for work that day till a half-hour after your appointment. You spend three hours on the phone to Tech Support and they give up getting you reconnected to the Internet. And on it goes, one darned thing after another, day after day. And now, here we are: the day we've all been waiting for. I mailed in my ballot the day after it arrived in my mailbox. By tomorrow night we may think that eventually we will celebrate. Or weep. When Fritz and I left the US in 1965 for him to work abroad for Carrier, we left a country where its citizens were still looked upon as Saviors to the rest of the world. Now we are scorned. We count only money as the evidence of Success. Will we ever gain back the trust and admiration of people around the globe? We'll begin to get the answer by the end of tomorrow. Today we're on the brink. Of What?