In California? I think it's just X number of signatures saying we want to be able to vote on this proposition. And X is a surprisingly low number, although I do not remember what it is, just that I was surprised it wasn't higher. More money means being able to hire more people to collect signatures, mostly. But it's supposed to be grass-roots and it's a pretty low bar to entry.

I'm glad I voted in the middle of the week. On Saturday, the last day of early voting in Georgia, there were reported waits up to 6 hours. The main advertising we have is over the charter school Constitutional amendment, which is essentially a blank check for for-profit school companies. During the past few days, there have been apocalyptic Romney ads.

I don't understand people. Some people are complaining that they missed part of SNL because the local news continued coverage of a breaking story about a helicopter crash that killed two police officers. Get some perspective and learn how to use a computer, people. The officers were part of a search for a 9-year-old who ran away after getting a bad grade. He was found shortly after that, and his mother is blaming herself for the officers' deaths.

Nothing quite like getting a collect call from a jail. No, I don't know who it was, and no, I didn't accept the charges.

Scratches Dana off the list.

Well, Tom, next time you have to enunciate. Being arrested is no excuse.

Looks like the schools in my parents' town (my town? The town where I grew up, anyway) aren't reopening until Wednesday at the earliest. I think that at least one of the schools still has no power.

Nothing quite like getting a collect call from a jail. No, I don't know who it was, and no, I didn't accept the charges.

We used to get these at work, heh.

Nothing quite like getting a collect call from a jail. No, I don't know who it was, and no, I didn't accept the charges.

I once took one of those at work. Our photographer was out on an assignment and got stopped for an outstanding warrant for a ticket he thought he'd paid.

He had to call for the boss to come bail him out. it turned out that he was right about having paid the ticket, too. It was all pretty funny. He's a small slender man with a long braided pony tail, so we had a lot of fun with the idea of him in jail.

Well, Tom, next time you have to enunciate. Being arrested is no excuse.

Not an excuse but sometimes there's an explanation, like say if the caller was arrested for drunk driving?

The officers were part of a search for a 9-year-old who ran away after getting a bad grade. He was found shortly after that, and his mother is blaming herself for the officers' deaths.

God, that's horrible.