Andy's Blog

Today is Super Tuesday! Frankly, I don't see anything super about it. Although for the first time in about a month I got a wonderful night's sleep. After waking up, I went to my precinct and voted for Mike Huckabee. I debated voting the Democrat ticket, but I realized there is no way Obama is going to lose Georgia, and Huckabee needs my vote more than Obama. Once in front of the voting machine, it literally took me 15 seconds to do everything I needed to do to cast my ballot.

I left the precinct, swung by Taco Bell, and then went to Dick's Sporting Goods. Why? Senior year of high school, my ex-girlfriend (and it might have even been two ex-girlfriends) stole the tennis racket out of my car (which I always kept unlocked). I blamed my sister for losing it for years. It wasn't until Sophomore year of college when I was hanging out with this ex-girlfriend that she finally came clean. We laughed. It also wasn't until today that I went and bought a replacement.

The funny thing was, I stood in front of the rackets for 5 whole minutes trying to make my decision - that is 20x longer than it took me to cast my ballot for the next future leader of the world.

I have written a couple times recently on how stressful life has been. We have been adding stations, adding employees, adding sponsorships, adding marketing campaigns, adding luncheons, and increasing production elements. All this means added work and stress. Yesterday I left work because I seriously felt like I was having a heart attack. The only saving grace is that I can sleep in until whenever I naturally wake up, but even that is getting infringed on because of new morning meetings. This brings me to tennis...

I love racket sports. I played a lot of Tennis in high school. And then in college I switched to Racquetball. I tell you, there is nothing more stress relieving than beating around some blue balls as hard as you possible can (that's for you Kyle).

The past couple of months I have realized that the increase in stress and the decrease in physical activity is going to be disastrous if I don't change anything. I am still skinny as ever, so I "look" healthy. But I have to admit I feel like crap. I am hoping Tennis changes that.

So what does this have to do with politics? As I was driving home from Dick's I began to ponder, "in 4 years, which decision will make a bigger difference in my life?" According to the time comparison, the tennis racket will be 20x more important in my life.

My money is on the racket.