T-minus One...

Tomorrow we bid farewell to our 43rd president and welcome our first African-American president. Personally it'll be my 5th president. I was too young to remember Carter, but I do remember vividly Ronald Reagan being the president when I was young, naive and thought it was the biggest job in existence, maybe it still is.

I grew up in Southern Calfironia, and my parents were Reagan Republicans. Thus by proximity and inheritance, so was I. San Diego, to this day, is still fairly conservative. Shedding those political ideas probably came easier than shedding my Catholic ones, but both were a result of self-reflection about what I actually believed, and not what I was told to growing up.

These days I'm more center-left than anything else, with some right leaning tendencies. I don't really get people who are all left or all right. No one can be entirely liberal or conservative. People are usually a spectrum of ideas, not the margins. If they are, they probably didn't take enough time to think about their positions. Not sure what the point of this post was, I just kinda rambled on. Oh well. Inauguration Day tomorrow. Stay tuned for change... I hope.