I only have so much space. Your thoughts on the price? She keeps saying obo, but I'm kinda like, she's a neighbor 2 blocks over, fellow neighborhood cat-saver (as in we've worked online on campaigns before) seems a fair price and they'd throw in delivery, we'd all avoid a lot of grief if I were the buyer.

And I'm not in love with the dressers (dressers are boring.) Vanity is very much like the one my grandma had that I loved, and the wood color I like.

I get you on the space, it's just if these could serve as better storage that what you have. The price I really don't know. If it is comparable to others on Craigslist I'd say ok.

Toes are done, I am packed and showered. Not staying up for another beer, oh well. Need to be up in 5.5 hours, to bed!

Yay vacay, msbelle! Hope it's great!

I am not looking forward to the 4th this year, but pls don't tell my loved ones. We are going down to visit my FiL, and I'd much rather be seeing my sister, for a whole host of selfish reasons. But oh well. I can put up with a less than desirable holiday I'm sure, and I'm sure there will be plenty of enjoyment to offset the TOO HOT OUTSIDE! or the EEK! No! You did not say that! or anything else I may be dreading.

I had a nice night. I'm really sad to see that bar go: they do the best cobb salad around, and when I asked for rare flank steak on my salad, they actually made it rare. We asked: they've had no luck finding a new space. Sigh.

15 years, I've been going there, although less often recently. Damn it.

I'm at a dance convention, and I skipped out on most of this evening's big dance. But late at night they have a room just for one kind of dance (the one I do a lot of but not everyone at the convention does). And I went in to that room and no DJ, just someone's iPod and I asked who was DJ-ing and they said "if you want to play something go crazy". So I proceeded to DJ for the next two hours, until almost 3am when I said I was going to bed and someone else should take over. Such fun! Got to play all my favorite songs and no song I didn't like! May try to set up a playlist so it's a little easier to do tomorrow. I was just racing over and picking the next song when I realized one was ending

I have been out to vote! Australia has a federal election today. Now in front of the telly watching results come in. It's looking very likely we'll have a hung parliament, with no party claiming a majority.

Yay voting! Boo lack of majority, I assume?

Yay voting! Boo lack of majority, I assume?

Well; it depends on who is hoping for the majority. At the moment it seems the two possibilities are that the Coalition (the conservative parties) is returned, but with a buffer of three or fewer seats; or it'll be a hung Parliament, with the Coalition falling maybe one or two seats short. In either case, the Coalition has lost a dozen or more seats, and we're likely to see a wobbly and uncertain government for the next three years.

This is an unusual election, being a double dissolution election. Normally, as with the US system, our elections typically involve voting for all the seats in the House, and a proportion of the seats in the Senate (a half rather than a third). A double dissolution election (which involves certain conditions to be met, basically around the Senate blocking government legislation) sees every seat in the Senate up for grabs.

That means every state elects 12 Senators instead of 6. The voting system in the Senate is complicated, more or less a preferential-proportional hybrid. At a D-D election, it becomes much easier for minority parties to get in - basically they need to muster just a twelfth of the vote instead of a sixth. I'm guessing the government is going to find this mob even harder to work with than the incumbents.

Sadly, this also means that more extremist views can get in. We'll be seeing the return to our Senate of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. This is an anti-immigration bunch, who in the 90s came to prominence railing against Asian immigration. Nowadays they've decided that's cool, and it's really the Muslims we should be keeping out. Because of course.

Anyway, the results are a strong rebuff to the PM, Malcolm Turnbull. He replaced Tony Abbott just last year, on the realisation that not only was Abbott was a goose, but it turns out the electorate had noticed. His leadership claim was that he could win the election. (I like him better than his party, he's fairly socially progressive, but that also makes him a shaky fit.)

I spend a lot more time following US politics than local these days, but this result is going to warrant some attention.