I drove an Elantra on my vacation and I really liked it. It felt very similar to my Cruze.

50k is nothing on a Honda Accord. You might have a timing belt replacement in 10k depending on the engine, though. Seems like it's either 60k or 90k with Hondas. Something to keep in mind.

I have heard Larry Niven sing the Mongol Birthday Dirge. Didn't know that was on my list of things to experience, but there you go.

Good to see some positive views of the Elantra. The wife is concerned about the trunk space (she packs our current, larger, cars to the gills whenever she travels and her car is even older than mine was, so she was thinking about driving whatever new car we get when she travels to visit family) but her jaw dropped at the estimated MPG ratings. Practically double what we're getting out of the Lumina she's driving now.

50k is nothing on a Honda Accord. You might have a timing belt replacement in 10k depending on the engine, though. Seems like it's either 60k or 90k with Hondas. Something to keep in mind.

I'll look into that, if I end up going with it. Thanks for the heads up.

Useful: about half an hour ago, Princeton Consortium put up a post about how/why their prediction models diverge so much from 538's models. Pretty interesting (and also still makes me feel good about the [highly] probable outcome of the election): [link]

I am reasonably confident about the outcome of the Presidential election. (For values of "reasonably" that come in about 87% or so.) I continue to be worried about the Senate. If we don't get a Democratic majority in the Senate, we won't be able to approve any new SCOTUS justices, and despite her awesomeness, RBG is well into her 80s.

If she dies or retires without another liberal on the court, we have a conservative majority in an era where the right wing is pushing hard on limiting reproductive choices and voting rights and no end of other things.

So yeah, I sent some money to the Act Blue list of Senate races last night.

This is going to be a rough week. Tomorrow is a full day, and I will spend 15 hours on Tuesday working as an election worker, and then on Thursday I get another biopsy (ouch).

You ever feel like you'll welcome a really bad cold or the flu because you'd get the spend several days in bed without feeling guilty about it?

I need this election to be over, because right now I'm coping by eating my feelings, only I think I'd need to eat the equivalent of a space whale to really comfort me right now. And, like, my body cannot contain a space whale, y'all.

Shrift, you and I are twins on this. Except my body keeps trying to accommodate the space whale.

Is anyone watching Pitch? Structurally that last episode felt just like the West Wing ep Noel.

I'm 2 or 3 weeks behind on Pitch.

... and it looks like Twitter is down. Bah. Time for bed.

We decided to avoid Election Night madness and just bought tickets to go see Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition.