Health~ma for all of your loved ones, Matt.
JZ, I had a similar experience with my dad toward the end of his life. He was a nearly-life-long Republican, but he was also a science teacher with a healthy respect for math and reality. He voted for Bush senior but he then voted for Obama the year before he died. My sister actually took longer to peel from the Republican crazy machine, but the combo of Trump and a granddaughter who needs a world that’s not on fire to live in seems to have done the trick.
{{Buffistas}}
Matt, health~ma all around. Reasonable theory with your mom. Now that I rarely eat some things if I have them on occasion I pay a price. Bodies be annoying.
Gerrymandering in Wisconsin is criminal. 60 percent of the votes cast are Democrats and yet the state assembly is just 36 percent Democrat. After 2010, they did a number on the state and we are fucked for decades.
The state fight is one that has to happen. My own district in the state was taken by the GOP again, for the same reason. I have to say the WisDems did a fabulous job with the fundraising efforts. They had some great events. I hope they keep up the effort.
Just so tired. Everyone in my orbit is on edge and exhausted. It is rough.
Sweet story I don't know if I shared about working the polls this year. I have voted in this precinct for 35 years. For countless elections I looked forward to seeing my neighbor Calvin. We would joke about living 1/4 mile from each other and seeing each other 2-3 times a year depending on the election calendar. Calvin passed away last year so I knew I would be missing him this past election. Well, when I got our emails with instructions there were three people included on the precinct group email (8 of us) with the same last name as Calvin. I told DH it had to be relatives but I didn't recognize the names. When we arrived at the precinct we found that it was Calvin's older son, his wife, and daughter. After his dad died the house passed to his children, including a younger son who graduated with my son. Ted and his family moved into the house from Canada. With the upcoming election they decided to volunteer in his memory because it was important to him. He regretted that he had lived away from his father for so many years and I let him know how it warmed my heart to seeing him picking up the torch.
ltc still woke up miserable this morning, but she is at school and I'm eating a bagel and an oatmilk chai latte.
That's so nice, Laura! At my polling place, there were two of us newbies this year, replacing two old ladies whose children convinced them not to do it this year. So many people came in looking for Mrs. Murphy! I was glad to be able to tell them she is OK, just not here.
Health ~ma to your mom and cat, Matt.
Laura, that is a sweet story.
Sorry about ltc is having the miserables. On the other hand, an oatmilk chai latte sounds really good, and I hope you're enjoying it.
I have switched to decaf coffee to see if that helps my plumbing, and I think it's making a difference. And it's close enough in taste to leaded coffee that my mind is happy to be getting it still. Now we have a whole system where we program the caffeinated coffee to go first for DP's morning cup, which is 99% of the time before my first cup, then pour the rest into an insulated water bottle (coffee bottle now, I guess) and make the decaf for me. [ETA: "this whole system" might be overstating the complexity a bit]
I have a special place in my heart for this particular insulated water bottle, because DP would brew hot Earl Grey for it and bring it to me in the hospital from time to time. The tea situation in the hospital was not great, but, I mean, priorities, so no complaints. But it was nice to get that good tea and have it stay warm forEVER.
ETA:
So many people came in looking for Mrs. Murphy! I was glad to be able to tell them she is OK, just not here.
That is also a sweet story. Good old Mrs Murphy!
Well, the news organizations say it's still up in the air, but Sportsbet has called it for Biden and paid out the money:
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I got up early (because puppy) and went to the coffee shop and got my friends coffee. Apparently so early the dude forgot to put the milk in their lattes, annoyingly. (Didn’t realize until I got back to the hotel)
Now listening to NPR on my phone, as there’s no tv in the hotel room!
WTF, meara? Milk in the latte seems like a KEY ingredient. It's right there in the name!
Seriously! If there's one thing a latte should have, it's milk!
