Totally unrelated...comma question from my cousin. I gave her my answer, but it's conflicting with her answer key, so I'm double checking...

Anaheim, California is the home of Disneyland. OR Anaheim, California, is the home of Disneyland.

English isn't my native tongue, but I'd go with Anaheim, California, is the home of Disneyland myself.

Heels? umm. I'd take a picture of it and post it tomorrow, OK? Too tired to describe at the moment.

As least LOL Cat customer service wouldn't try to upsell you after they haven't helped you. He was not an argument for the for-cost router support. Many times the people in other countries are very helpful, but he was not and I had to have him repeat the number 4 several times before I figured out what he was saying. My connection went out about 10 this morning and now I'm just now back on without the router and it's not longer working on one phone line, which is important because I'm about to get rid of my second line.

It didn't help that he started by telling me to turn the modem off and back on. At that point, I had turned the modem off and on and rebooted about 12 times.

Oh, look. They just sent me a survey about my service. They'll be sorry.

eta: As Shir says, there's a comma after the state.

Has this been in the news near you guys?

I haven't seen anything, but then I'm not the most widely newspaper-read person ever. Daniel might have seen it.

Speaking of Daniel - I just ordered his birthday present.

I just checked the local paper, and it seems it was just announced today. It'll be in tomorrow's paper. I didn't realize it was such NEW news. God love the Internet!

Any other thoughts on my grammar issue?

Oh, I totally love the second one, Andi. Enormously. I'd wear that to a writer's conference in a heartbeat.

Any other thoughts on my grammar issue?

I think just the one comma. You have a sentence structure "XXX is the home of Disneyland" with XXX = "Anaheim, California". That second comma doesn't really belong in either the name of the location, or the sentence structure.

I thought billytea was right but this website says the second comma stays.

(it's towards the end of rule #4)

When both a city's name and that city's state or country's name are mentioned together, the state or country's name is treated as a parenthetical element.

I voted! Finally. The lines the last couple days were insane, but late this afternoon the sky was very threatening and the line was shorter. 45 minutes total. I had to explain the one man/one woman amendment thing to the old lady behind me. She wanted to make sure she wasn't banning gay marriage or ruining things for all the old people living together with partnership agreements.

Why do amendments have to be written so badly? The first one reads:

Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to delete provisions authorizing the Legislature to regulate or prohibit the ownership, inheritance, disposition, and possession of real property by aliens ineligible for citizenship.

Ok, to delete provisions authorizing prohibiting. It is also remarkable the number of people that show up to the polls that haven't done any prior research and hit these things for the first time. It is no wonder that they almost always pass.

Anyway, nothing to do now until I sit down and watch elections returns. (send landslide vibes) The early voting queue, all Obama that were talkative. The older woman had an Obama sticker.