Thanks, everybody. Guess I needed to vent.

DH agrees that poison has a terrible ripple effect and unintended consequences. I experienced the horror of glue traps at our previous address. They were up on top of the kitchen cupboards, little Chloe stepped into one and was stuck all day until we got home from work. That poor cat, she was so scared and so happy to see me and my problem fixing hands.

Spring traps, they are on the shopping list now. I reckon I could put some under the coach while I'm at it. It will rend my heart to damage cute little mammals, but this is my house and we're not sharing with those smelly, messy poop factories.

DH is doing something that requires the power off where my work computer is located so I can't work and am forced to finish my book. The struggle.

My job doesn't know how lucky it is that I came in today instead of finishing my book at home! On the other hand, I've been trying to stretch it out because it's so good! (Since Monday.) (The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory.)

In other news, the second person in my (>15 person) department in two weeks just went to urgent care for a back thing! It's an epidemic.

I am going to expire from hunger before my husband is ready to go to lunch.

Oh, Florida. Instead of 4 days of 8 hour shifts on recount I only have half day tomorrow because the office where I am observing is the location where they have overheating ballot machines and the machine recount has to complete before the manual recount starts. Works out because Riviera Beach is where DH coaches basketball so he can drop me off and pick me up and I won't have to park my car in a sketchy parking lot.

In more delightful news, my SIL did my nails today and she painted fall leaves on the index fingers and glittered the ring fingers. Pretty!

Timelies all!

I was in a car accident today. Basically I was moving into the right lane, and didn't pay attention to the car coming up fast in that lane. Physically, I'm fine. (Mentally, less so.) The car is in the collision center at my dealer and I'm driving a rental.

I did end up with an injury. As I was trying to get the car seat out of my car, I banged up my ring finger, so I have a big bruise there. Sigh....

Just finished my training. We are on the completely biased Blue side. Any mark whatsoever near our guy's name and we think it is a vote, any mark whatsoever near the other guy's name and we think it is just a random mark. Well, you have to have some basis, but basically if we can make any kind of argument whatsoever to bump the ballot up to the next level of review we give it our best shot.

More ballots for both sides will end up being counted in the manual count because things like circled names or underlines and so forth will be accepted manually even though the machine won't pick it up. In my county that will end up being more Nelson votes.

You can imagine how much I don't want to have Lord Voldemort Rick Scott go to the senate in Bill Nelson's place. I think it has a reasonable shot. Not sure about the Governor's race. So far it isn't close enough for the manual count. A bunch of legal battles still going on.

Oh No! Take it easy, Sheryl. You may have been shaken up more than you realize.

So a lot of inappropriately young models, then?

Does it make it more/less inappropriate if the artist is even younger?

Shortly after that one of the kids mentioned da Vinci, so I suspect the kids are smarter, or at least more well-versed on this topic, than the adult in question. We'll see how that plays out over the next six weeks.

Oh, Sheryl! I'm glad you're (mostly) okay.