meara, I hope it works - our heat pump is getting mended Thursday (it's not worked since midsummer, so we didn't have air conditioning, either) and we've been all right, but I don't want to go without for too much longer.
And welcome home, Daniel!
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
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.
amyparker - Nov 09, 2022 9:02:03 am PST #18482 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Gudanov - Nov 09, 2022 9:05:14 am PST #18483 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
I can see the temptation of not voting in my county if it weren't for ballot measures. I knew going in that the Republican would win in every case.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 09, 2022 9:13:50 am PST #18484 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I still vote just to be the opposition voice when I know I'm outnumbered. If nothing else, it may help my preferred candidates with fundraising in the future.
All my candidates lost, but at least the four statewide ballot measures I voted against were rejected. Unfortunately, the local ballot measure to cut the public library's funding in half passed—something proposed as a vindictive response to the library not canceling their Pride display last year. So if an involved state level politician or certain Bible thumpers should happen to go missing, I was visiting one of y'all and my whereabouts were accounted for, okay?
dcp - Nov 09, 2022 9:34:48 am PST #18485 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Registered voters in my county: 174,769
Turnout was 50.34%.
meara - Nov 09, 2022 9:44:07 am PST #18486 of 30000
That sucks about the library Matt dang!!
restarting the water heater seems to have worked! Thank goodness.
-t - Nov 09, 2022 9:53:10 am PST #18487 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Looks like turnout for my county was 28% which does seem pretty dismal but might actually be higher than usual.
That library thing is appalling, Matt!
Kate P. - Nov 09, 2022 10:16:22 am PST #18488 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Ugh, Matt, that's awful. We hear a lot (as well we should) about school libraries being targets for book challenges/bans and harassment, but a lot of public libraries are having to deal with this shit too.
Laura - Nov 09, 2022 10:19:58 am PST #18489 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Oh Matt, that is awful. At least my county always does well on funding schools, arts, libraries, and such.
amyparker - Nov 09, 2022 10:37:09 am PST #18490 of 30000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
Matt, you were with me the entire time. We had a great day at MoPOP (we went to this, it was amazing) and a well bundled-up walk along the waterfront.
JZ - Nov 09, 2022 10:45:44 am PST #18491 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ugh, Matt, how infuriating and vindictive and petty and spiteful and you were definitely visiting us here all along.
Turnout in SF is currently around 31%, but they're nowhere near done tallying up all the mail-in ballots, so it should go up quite a bit. It damn well better, because that's embarrassing.