I am not liking what I'm seeing on Five Thirty Eight.
Nate Silver has kind of lost it. This is a good piece about why his predictions are so wildly different from other places like Princeton: [link]
I just need someone to bait Trump into saying something stupid, preferably today.
I do have the jitters that something HUGE is going to be dropped today. It's the last weekend before the election, so if there's going to be the bombshell to end all bombshells, it's going to be today. I'm just hoping it's about Trump.
More importantly, I'm going to make election cake this weekend, and was going to use dark rum to soak the fruit in, because I have it around and also it's American. That will still be delicious, right? Even though the recipes call for whisky or other?
What's disheartening is how many stupid things he's already said that his supporters just blithely ignore. Or embrace!
Yes, this. It's so scary.
My coodinator just emailed all the freelancers to tell us that the AMA is giving the employees an extra hour of paid time off today to attend the Cubs parade. That's awesome.
I have a dentist appointment and yet another Comcast appointment today, so no parade for me.
I have never drunk rum. I want to buy a bottle of rum. (Mostly so, some day, in 15 years, I can say, "Why is the rum gone?") What kind of rum should I buy, and how should I drink it? (I am serious about the 15 years thing. Last week I finished a bottle of Chivas we inherited when mr. flea's grandparents died in 2001. Note that it was not full when we inherited it.)
I'm partial to the Caribbean rums. Appleton from Jamaica is very nice.
Also, I would like to confess that despite an overall excellent command of English, I am confused about the tenses of the verb "to drink." "I have never drunk rum" is, I think, correct, but it feels wrong. Drink, drank, drunk. Sigh.
Where rum is involved, drunk is always an appropriate word.
That will still be delicious, right?
Yes. But if you're not sure, you can send me some and I'll taste it for you.
I'm having an EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE kind of day, which doesn't seem fair on a Friday where I'm working from home! Why so emergencified, work?