No, no, I haven’t gone all political.  I’m just listing 10 great things that happened in *my* life while George W. Bush was President.  He didn’t necessarily have anything to do with these events, but he was Commander in Chief while they happened just the same.

1. OK, so it’s a given, but I met, fell in love with, and married the woman of my dreams during the last administration.
2. We also adopted the greatest beagle in the history of the universe, Sherlock Houdini Chewbacca Gizmo Noah.
3. I worked as a Page at Saturday Night Live, got to go to after-parties, as well as the far more fun after-after-parties.  After my brief tenure there I got to sit in the audience for a show and I got a few moments of fame as an extra on an episode, but clearly the highlight of the whole SNL experience was becoming best friends with a lot of celebrities, and even getting the chance to make-out with a certain pop starlet at the height of her fame and hotness.
4. Speaking of great work experiences, I also spent seven days at the Playboy Mansion, which was sort of the coolest thing ever.  A little later I got to meet Mark Hamill and Frank Oz on a Star Wars show, which was also insanely amazing.
5. I also personally got to travel a lot these past two terms, with the most notable vacations being Disney World, Spain, and Hawaii.
6. It was a great eight years for movies: There were three Star Wars movies, a Superman film, a Simpsons feature, two great Batman flicks, long-awaited sequels to the Rocky and Die Hard franchises, and of course, WALL•E.
7. And we can’t forget all of the TV shows that have hit the airwaves since Bush was sworn in: 24, Smallville,The Office, 30 Rock, and the insanely addicitng Lost.
8. Nintendo put out two great home consoles while Bush was in office, the under-appreciated Gamecube and the blockbuster seller Wii.  Camping out for the Wii was an adventure in and of itself, and the games for it have for the most part been stellar.  And let’s not forget the DS, which was the most fun handheld since the original Game Boy.
9. In the summer of 2007, I had the greatest bachelor party ever, where I barely slept and even jumped out of a plane.  That was fantastic.
10. Earlier this year, I started my own website, which you are reading right now. Good times.

So what did Bush have to do with any of these things?  Nothing, really.  (Probably…)  All ten of those things could have happened just as easily if Gore or Kerry or someone else was elected President.  I’m just enough of a glass-is-half-full kind of guy that I hate hearing people saying that the past eight years were full of nothing but misery, that’s all.