I'm in one of those meetings where an insurance company lectures me about making healthy choices and not costing them too much money.

Last month (or maybe July?) we started the application process for life insurance and disability insurance. Tim was rejected for disability insurance within like 2 nanoseconds because of the combo of rheumatoid arthritis and having heart surgery this year. It look about a month longer, but I got a letter saying I was rejected for disability insurance because -- and this is the only reason they listed -- I am 10 pounds too heavy. And all I could do was shrug. Because, pandemic, you know? Yeah, I gained the quarantine 15 and I'm not too fussed about it because it's a goddamn pandemic. I would rather have not gained pandemic weight, but it is really really not a concern right now because there are WAY more pressing issues.

My letter said I could reapply in 3 years if I managed to lose 10 pounds. (It literally said "managed to lose," like "We don't think it'll happen, but give it a shot, Large Marge.") Insurance company, you are not my mother. You have to try WAY harder to psychologically devastate me about my weight. Amateurs.

My kids know about the buffistas and have free use of the internet but also find their parents deeply boring, as is normal for teenagers.

The 8th grader and I got to the episode of AtS a few nights ago where the kid in the comic book store geeks out at Angel about "there are chat rooms and message boards about you!" and I was all "Can confirm!" and he rolled his eyes at me so hard they almost fell out. So I can say with confidence that my kids are not lurking on any message boards where they might cross paths with me.

My family has plans to gather in NY for Thanksgiving. We'll all get Covid tests in advance like we did for our vacation in August, and the locals will do all the grocery shopping so folks driving in from out of state can quarantine.

We have a company-wide recommendation to make Election Day a no-meeting day so people can take time off, which is great except instead of canceling things all the Tuesday meetings are just being pushed to the 4th. Did we all forget how many people called in sick on Nov 9th 2016?

It's Friday and my only meeting today is in the afternoon. Since I already woke up early to go swimming that means I get to spend the rest of the morning reading fanfiction and pretending to check email, right?

Oh, fuck ALL of that, Steph.

I am trying to figure out if there is going to be early in person voting in SC or not. I kept reading something that sounded like there was but no details. SC has no early voting at all. Under normal times you either show up and vote on Election Day or you vote absentee but only very limited people.

This year they have expanded absentee voting to anyone but you still need a witness to sign the absentee ballot. I would rather brave early in person voting if possible. You can't vote in person if you have requested an absentee ballot unless you go and do something to cancel the absentee ballot. So I'm kind of playing chicken with this.

I'll vote early in person as I need to see the machine record my vote. I don't trust the mail system although it worked wonderfully during the primary.

I'll be working the polls so maybe we will get to vote first!

I'll vote early in person as I need to see the machine record my vote. I don't trust the mail system although it worked wonderfully during the primary.

The fuckery that's been going on at USPS has me really worried as well - I've had several first class letters take WEEKS to arrive recently, and a few packages that may have simply vanished.

We're early voting via absentee ballot, but are going to drop the ballots off in the drop box at the Board of Elections, because I don't want to vote in person (as much as I love my neighborhood and know I'll be voting among a group of people who more or less share my political views, I just don't want to deal with coronavirus nonsense).

I'll vote early in person as I need to see the machine record my vote.

Ditto, plus I just love the Scantron machine. So reliable! Paper trail! Records tally instantly AND you can audit the paper ballots.

I'll be working the polls so maybe we will get to vote first!

My parents had to vote absentee when they worked the polls. They never worked their own precinct, not sure if that's why

I'm planning on dropping off my ballot early rather than mailing. I do like voting in person but this year I want my vote officially received as early as possible!

Everyone should vote Scantron. When I worked on a recount it was awesome to have all the rejected ballots to view by human eyes. Also, people weird and write all kinds of stuff on ballots.

The 'naked ballots' thing in PA is crazy. I really hope it has been publicized enough that people do it right.

Dropping off at a drop box is definitely better than the mail. Ohio numbers have been discouraging. I hope the sane people step up.