I feel like there should be an LAista fall festival f2f. It'd be so much fun! Problem is I'm too fried and too busy to set it up, and so is everyone else as I well know. sigh. When did we all get so busy?

I think I just won a FB fight. If the other guy starts sputtering about how she's being misunderstood and then accuses me of changing the subject and derailing the discussion, and then flounces off in a huff, it means I won, right? Because it sure feels like a win.

Because of the 80 degree weather in March that caused everything to bloom before the bees were awake and about and then frosts after that killed the blossoms, we are having a massive apple shortage here. It sucks.

Yeah. My grandmother owns an orchard (it was my grandfather's retirement project and she's kept it going since he passed) and she normally has a crop of 300 to 400 bushel. This year it was 80, and the quality of that 80 is very poor. She normally sells apples from the end of September until early-to-mid November. She's already closed for the year as of last weekend.

Serial-

I really should know better. I made a post to Facebook last night asking my friends voting for Romney why they felt he would do a better job than Bush, considering he's hired most of the same advisors and says he pretty much wants to do everything Bush did. I also asked if there were things Romney was going to do different (besides vague talk of closing loopholes and cutting PBS funding).

So far, only one Romney supporter responded and he doesn't understand why I think Bush's policies failed and that he votes Republican because Democratic policies reward laziness and punish success. Ugh.

The sad thing is that many Republicans do honestly believe that.

I'm aware, and it doesn't help that it gets repeated over and over in the conservative media echo chamber. I guess I was hoping for a more nuanced discussion out of someone I know is otherwise intelligent.

ETA: I've had a couple other friends chime in that they're voting 3rd party this year. They know objectively Obama is better than Romney, but they still don't think he's going to fix anything, and are making protest votes. I can respect that, even if I don't agree with it. (I have plenty of issues with Obama myself, but I feel he's also been hampered by an obstructionist Congress and that Romney would be a complete disaster. Not only as president, but because it will take that much longer for the Republicans to realize just how crazy they've gotten.)

I am pretty sure that I am voting Jill Scott, because I agree with her the most. But the decision is a lot easier in NY, where it would be shocking if it went republican

Living in a swing state means not even looking at other party candidates. I am a strong Obama supporter so it wasn't really an issue, but Florida is way too close.

Living in a swing state means not even looking at other party candidates. I am a strong Obama supporter so it wasn't really an issue, but Florida is way too close.

Ohio feels you.

I am pretty sure that I am voting Jill Scott

I would love it if you wrote in Jill Scott, but I bet you mean Jill Stein.

So I woke up and it was dark and rainy and I didn't want to go to yoga, and I didn't want to go, and then I went!