Voting without participating? No problem IMHO. If only the participants voted, it wouldn't be as much fun. Happiness with winning? I took 3rd place one month and it still feels good. Not a lord it over everybody good, a recognized by my peers good.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy