There is no gang of people, physical or virtual, that I would rather have around me as I wait for news that might be wonderful or might be catastrophic.

You folks have been, and continue to be, the most amazing group of Friends in the Lighted Box that I could ever ask for. I'm really quite fond of all of you.

Global All-Hands took three hours out of my day, and it was kind of refreshing to take a temporary break from feeling terrified about the election to relax into the familiar sense of feeling angry about 5-day RTO.

it was kind of refreshing to take a temporary break from feeling terrified about the election to relax into the familiar sense of feeling angry about 5-day RTO.

That emotional roller coaster needs some ups to go with the downs.

Back at you. Karl, bunkie.

Agreed, Karl!

Was it Agatha All Along that had someone saying "sad is better than angry"? Not sure I agree with that is why I mention it

Lunch update: I decided to go with Panera's buy a whole sandwich get a cup of soup for a dollar because that sounded like good comfort food, but I got back from picking it up just in time for my regularly scheduled daily 1PM zoom call and felt constrained to be on camera and not eat so now my hot sandwich is cold and my soup is lukewarm and comfort levels are not where I hoped.

We took M's cat, Duchess to the vet. This is huge because he has real anxiety based on what happened to a ferret of his years ago. Duchess did see a vet once when she was very young but not since then. However she's gotten fat, she can't bother herself well and I'be been worried.

Duchess, who is our most prickliest, hissiest, growliest cat was an absolute angel at the vet. She meowed in the car once over and 3 times on the way home and just wanted to look out the cat backpack and out the window.

The verdict is: fleas love her and always have so she has fleas really bad and tapeworms. And yeast infection in both ears. But nothing else is wrong. Except she's fat and some cats get like that as they age. If we notice any other changes we need to bring her back. She got the top of the line flea treatment (lasts for 3 months ), de wormer and ear medicine. They did talk about how important it is to spay cats to reduce the risk of cancer but didn't push. And only offered the rabies vaccine

I love our vet , well the vets and the vet techs. They never make us feel bad about declining optional treatment, or that we have indoor/outdoor cats and once they saw M getting anxious about Duchess being spayed they shifted the conversation.

She was even patient when we went through a drive thru to get food. Oh the vet did say we should cut back on treats and try to get her to play more. And we will need to help her with her hygiene.

M was singing little songs on the way home.... about Duchess but also about how we are going to have a female President and not the traitor. I've been telling him that we could be disappointed. He has been doing a count down to the first results ...he was giddy earlier.

The voters better not crush my man's spirit !

Your lips to God's ear, askye!

I have about an hour and a half until I go into Media Blackout.

I mean, unless there are neighbors setting off fireworks and whooping it up in the streets. I mean, there's no doubt how my neighborhood is voting, so it's a distinct possibility if the election was called very decisively.

But I might be sound asleep, so.

I hope you can sleep, Theo, until the fireworks wake you!

I am settled in expecting to watch until very late. May fall asleep on the couch. But I have to watch.

Timelies all!

Not watching the returns. I'll be reading fanfic instead. I am also using my back massager, as I have a nasty pain in my lower back/hip that hurts whenever I move my legs.

I turned on some kind of live election return analysis from WaPo on my phone because I don't know how to treat myself well. I'm not looking at it a lot, though.