I'm here, and I'm listening, and I'm very fond of all of you.

You are such a good presence to have around, Karl. Thanks for that.

Surgery~ma for your dad, msbelle.

I have SO MUCH to do, and I have no ability to concentrate today.

My house is a wreck, the puppy is still not sleeping quietly at night, and I just keep making stupid mistakes at work right now.

I want to go vote before everyone gets off of work, but I'm not sure that's going to be possible.

PA is reporting lots of calibration errors with the voting machines and it's all been about R votes being changed to D, so everyone is screaming, "Rigged!" but what they're failing to take into account is that the local counties having issues are all heavily R. Facebook is a cesspool right now.

Ugh.

Surgery~ma for your dad, msbelle.

It is probably good that I have to go to work soon

Just passed my polling place on the way to work--polls won't open for another 40 minutes but there are already five people waiting.

I had about a half hour wait to vote. Never had to wait before.

Matilda's school has a bake sale on Election Day because their school is also a polling site and people that are standing around in line will buy the brownies.

So we made lemon cookies last night and she was going to decorate them with HRC's logo until I realized that we can't campaign within the polling site. So she went with "Vote" and Vote with hearts ("That's my favorite," she said. "Vote with love.") and checkmarks.

I'm not worried about HRC winning. I'm worried about the Senate though.

Still, I think that HRC's ground game, early voting turnout, and massive efforts by the Dems to locate and turn out previously unregistered and unlikely voters is going to have her win over her polls.

Some of the key Senate races are dead heats: NH, Indiana, Missouri. And Nevada is really close, but I think the Dems turnout plans there will make the difference.

And it looks like Ohio might be in play for Clinton. I'd given up on Ohio but it's within 1%.

Should be a 50/50 Senate with Harmonica Dad casting the deciding vote, but we might squeak to 51.

Yeah, I am more nervous about the senate and house races. I don't want the new president to be saddled with haters.

I hope your dad is doing well, mebelle. Surgery~ma.

One of my Canadian Media subscription services has gone toes up and will disappear at the end of the month, so I am planning an evening of binge-watching Jane the Virgin, and keeping an occasional eye on your election results.

What will really happen is probably what happens every time I go to Shomi, I watch one episode of the intended show and then several more episodes of The West Wing. I've already done a rewatch of the entire series.

Dad~ma for you, msbelle.

It was about 30 minutes to vote this morning and we got there right as the polls opened. We had to do the family voting thing because of the one car right now.

The non-standardized voting we do in the States is absolutely crazy. So many ways for things to go wrong. Especially with the touch screens and their constant calibration issues. I like the scantron ballots we have here, since it has the all-important paper trail if there's a recount and anyone who has taken a standardized test knows how to fill them out.

Surgery ~ma for your father, msbelle.

We got in line this morning about 6:50 a.m. and got out about 8:20. We took the girl, and I hope she has good memories of this day. I took the day off from work, and am working at home on another project so I wouldn't have to talk to anyone / throat-punch anyone.

I like the scantron ballots we have here, since it has the all-important paper trail if there's a recount and anyone who has taken a standardized test knows how to fill them out.

Yeah, me too. Although I really enjoyed the old-fashioned voting machines I had in PA and NY. I think I had punch-cards in DC, but maybe they transitioned to some computer thing when I lived there? I forget. Vote all the ways!!