Early morning exercise of rights

Bemo and I voted before he droppd me off at work today. We pulled up to our polling place about five minutes after they opened, and there was a line - not a long one, or out the door or anything, but about ten people in front of us and a few more behind as soon as we queued up. After being spoiled by the big fancy polling places in Virginia (big voting booths with curtains! fancy machines with touchscreens!) it was amusing to vote in small-town Pennsylvania, where instead of the traditional school gym or church meeting hall we voted in an appliance store and I punched chads for the first time in my life. It's equally amusing here in Nebraska, where we were sort of smushed into the entryway of a Lutheran church along with a few folding tables and some very elderly "booths" you stood at (or you could opt for the table with the cardboard screen sitting on it). Most people just took their forms over to the bench and sat, filling in the circles just like an SAT test. Nevertheless, it all got done, and I made it in time for a long staff meeting and a long after-staff-meeting meeting.

It's a gorgeous day out there - bright blue sky, warm and windy. Really delightful fall weather. I may have to try for another photograph or two.

And with that, off to lunch.

Well, slap my ass and call me Charlie

I hearby join the woot-woots echoing across the land.

Tomorrow, I'll worry about this poor man who will be given a plate of crap with the expectation that he make a lovely chocolate mousse out of it. But tonight, I'm just glad.