Excellent, le nubian! (eta: I meant the phone paper--my tablet won't let me see the electoral vote thingy, sorry)

I asked my local Obama office what I could do tomorrow that didn't involve talking to people. They asked for baked goods for the GOTV workers. Operation "Bake for Obama" starts in my kitchen in half an hour.

What is GOTV? I keep seeing it, and I've clearly missed something.

I am in a 60 hour period of rage-typing

I wish I were laughing at you, but I've been too close--I'm laughing with.

TB--my mantra for this visit was "Well, that can't make it hurt worse...can it?" and I figure that would totally apply in your case.

I tried explaining to the observation people that the ER was tossing me over the fence when they thought they couldn't pay me enough attenton to be safe (that's the flattering spin--it's not what I believe), and that every time they'd done so, it was clearly noted in my records that the have done the due diligence with the extra-fancy machinery, and the dosages that my doctors recommend? NOT A PROBLEM.

She had the decency to say that she saw where in the records they'd done this whole dance before...I didn't use the "definition of insanity" viewpoint of repetition on the doc the same way I used it on the nurses waving the needle at me, but does no one examine their actions?

Her answer to "what do you expect to be different this time?" was something along the lines of "Well, you're young..." Yeah, compared to OLD people. Not compared to you. And apparently not being a trucker counts against me somehow also.

And I ended up almost leaving AMA

So I'll be sending my neuro the summary of this visit, and all sucky visits afterwards.

GOTV = get out the vote

GOTV = get out the vote

Okay, I am a moron. I thought it was some television thing. Like GO TV.

There are several people running against Sanders for US Senate. There's MacGovern with the GOP, someone from the marjiuana party, another from the KISS Party (Keep it Simple Stupid -laws in plan language, flat tax), Peace and Propserity party and a true socialist.

Seven Days (the free Vermont Weekly newspaper) had a run down on their blog called The Island of the Misfit Candidates, or Why Bernie Will Never Lose [link]

Which included the Marijuana Party candidate rambling on about "When President Obama spoke about the big yellow bird, I don't think he was talking about [Big Bird]. I think he was talking about China. You know, Chinese people, Oriental people are referred to as yellow."

Will watched the video he said it was hilarious and disturbing.

Damn, ita !. It infuriates me how you are treated by so many of these doctors and nurses. It's such an indictment on our system when even someone who has insurance coverage and is really committed to trying nearly anything to get better, can't. Not that every problem is solvable but they aren't doing everything they can even when it's clearly spelled out for them in your file. And that should not happen.

Hah! I have an "I Ride Inside: Dogs Against Romney" sticker on my car. Someone even asked me about it this weekend, which was nice.

I shamelessly told my (step)Mom all about this issue because she's probably more empathetic to dogs than disadvantaged people. I don't know if it will sway her vote but sadly it was my best shot.

Okay, I am a moron. I thought it was some television thing. Like GO TV.

Not just you.

Good for you, Calli.

My brain just refuses to consider the implications of Obama not winning. I tried today and it just... shut down. I may have been making the sad Mac face, IDK.

Ignoring politics as much as possible this evening. I've voted. I've encouraged others to vote. Now I want to sleep until the winner is announced.

In the mean time, I went through the packages of DVDs I've been piling up. I'm replacing our VHS Disney movies and have been hiding the packages from K-Bug. She is at work tonight, so I went through to take inventory and check the used ones. Out of the 23 movies, 4 were new in wrapper, 1 is seriously scratched up (sold like new, so I need to deal with that), and 2 were duplicates (not sure how I managed that - Alice in Wonderland and Lion King is anyone is interested). There are still another 7 that I just ordered over the weekend that haven't arrived yet.

I'm pretty sure I talked someone out of a Romney vote tonight. Unfortunately, it was only to a third party, and it was only on the basis that the Mormon vote here will carry that side regardless, but I'll take a win where I've got one.