meara, yeah, the Secretary of State's website has a reminder that between not all counties processing ballots daily and so many people returning theirs early, please give them 3-4 business days before calling to ask where your ballot's at.

(As of 5 pm yesterday, 52% return rate; four years ago, 28%.)

Tim is making a candy chute so kids can stay at the bottom of the steps up to our porch and we can send candy down. My vote for a treat trebuchet was vetoed.

I love everything about those sentences.

Awww, Steph! I would happily lend you the tabletop-treb Jim and Ken built years ago; it will probably throw a mini-Snickers's worth of payload. Now I have to test it.

And, as it turns out, w/r/t Covid, our county is teetering on the edge between red and purple right now (we are SO boned), so I really wouldn't want to be voting in person next week.

538 has a new article up about recent polling in the Midwest where it looks like the surge in COVID is pulling down Trump's numbers in Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.

Luckily it was only a tiny bit in the back. I told her she would have to explain it to the hairdresser next time she goes.

I told her she would have to explain it to the hairdresser next time she goes

Heh.

538 has a new article up about recent polling in the Midwest where it looks like the surge in COVID is pulling down Trump's numbers in Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa.

Between the ones he makes sick at the rallies and the people he has lost due to the idiocy of the COVID lack of policies it is amazing he has as many as he does. My family in Omaha are stunned with the bus screwups leaving people out in the freezing cold after they showed up to see him too. Just making points in the wrong column left and right. (NE relatives are so excited to contribute their one electoral vote)

I just got a call that ltc cut her hair at school. My first thought was at least it was HER hair.

I still remember when my friend Jill cut this girl's waist length hair with safety scissors. It took a long time. And it happened at my house, although I was not involved with the actual cutting so I escaped relatively unscathed.

In retrospect, it was straight hateration. We didn't like the kid anyway, and we were jealous of her long blond hair.

I was once in a store and there was a family - mother, father, young boy (5 or so) - and the mother was having a FIT over his haircut. He'd just had his hair cut and the mother was furious about it - she went on for a good five minutes about it. I suppose it was too short, since if it wasn't short enough she could have had more cut off, but maybe it was the way it was cut. It just completely confused me as to how she could be that upset about a haircut on a kid that young, when it would grow out.

ltc is currently more upset than anyone else, and mostly she is just annoyed that she temporarily lost scissor privileges at school.