super duper god bless america tuesday

Today is a red (and also white and blue) letter day, a proud day, a civically responsible day, a day of duties fulfilled. Today is Super Tuesday, but for Joel and Chrissy, it's been so much more, and therefore---more for America.

Get a load of the patriotic things we've been up to today:

• We voted in the primaries
• We completed our income tax returns
• Joel changed the oil in our...um...Japanese car
• Chrissy administered a standardized state exam
• Joel went to work at Starbucks (whistling the Star-Spangled Banner on the way)

And there's conceivably still time for at least one of us (or both) to serve on a jury, to write a letter to our congressman, to participate in a 21-gun salute, to eat a slice of apple pie and to watch an episode of Smallville.

Basically, Uncle Sam wants us.