'Never Leave Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Thank you for helping protect our democracy, Laura.
I took the dog out to agility class, and hardly anyone showed up, so we got an extra run. We have a new classmate: a lovely 18-month old black standard poodle named Jet. He's super athletic and enthusiastic, and he moves like he has springs in his legs. So wonderful to watch.
I'm doing laundry and that's about it.
I confess, if I got a poodle, it would spend most of its time wearing the extra-silly poodle cut.
Timelies all!
This has not been a fun con so far, mostly because Mr. S is being horrible.
Sorry that Mr. S is ruining the con fun.
I am back home again. 9 hours or so of back and forth today. At 7 they told us the machine count we had been observing was just the early vote and they still had the absentee and provisionals to do. They were saying it would be at least 3 more hours before manual recount. Sorry, past my bedtime. They were going to seat the attorney observers first and there were bunches of them and I am sure they will have enough people. They were only looking at maybe 3-5 thousand ballots that needed to be manually counted for the race they were doing tonight. We'll see what the morrow brings.
It's Cool Whip, isn't it?It was spray can fake whipped cream. BUT there was surprise real cranberry sauce with apples! And everything was generally yummy if not what my family does for Thanksgiving.
OMG, not only does the air taste like grit, but now there's a car alarm that's been going off for two hours.
I need one of my senses to be Not Under Assault.
Ooh, a side of extra hell! Lucky you.
One of my favorite memories is living near the I-Beam and a car alarm going off all night. Suddenly I hear breaking glass, the alarm was turned off... and the whole neighborhood hung out their windows and cheered.
On my honeymoon in St. Augustine the hotel was doing construction on the swimming pool and they left the sump pump on all night, well until my hero DH went down and unplugged the cord. No doubt there was cheering. The pump had long finished its work! This was March so the perfect time of year to have the balcony doors open.
Not car alarm level of annoyance but the rhythm of the sump pump is not at all as pleasant as the sound of waves crashing on the beach.
Looks like I made a good decision to go home and sleep. Hand count now set to begin at 8 this morning per the Palm Beach Post this morning.
4:10 AM SUNDAY UPDATE:
Ballot counting seemed to stop for the night at 4:10 a.m. Sunday, about 18 hours after ballots in the state House District 89 race began to be run through counting machines.
False alarm. More ballots appeared. Two boxes per counting machine. Eight counting machines in all. The work continued.
The idea was to find the ballots that registered no vote or more than one vote so they can be reviewed by humans. That hand recount of those ballots is scheduled to begin sometime between 8 and 10 a.m. Sunday but must be completed by noon for the results to count.
The recount in the race, which spanned only Palm Beach County, began at 10 a.m. Saturday. About 80,000 ballots were cast in the race leading to a 37-vote margin favoring Republican Mike Caruso.
Well, bummer. We did the manual count of the ballots rejected by the machines. 80,000 votes cast in the district and the other guy won by 37 votes. The manual look yielded 32 more for each of them so the end result was the same. I guess the lawyers are going to look at the outstanding issues with signatures and so forth, but I don't think we are going to flip this one. Closest we have managed in recent years. People gotta vote!
Wow. That is close.