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.

And I just saw a headling about Russia being behind bomb threats that shut Georgia polling stations and I'm yelling (inside my head because I am still at the office) WHICH GEORGIA so that's how well my reasoning is functioning

A coworker is texting me about the election and I'm trying to ignore things. And tell myself that W VA going GOP for Senate isn't really a loss since Manchin wasn't really a Dem.

Also the space bar on my keyboard is broken. It's a mechanical keyboard and I keep popping the space bar loose and finally part of it broke and the the space bar key won't fit back in. So I guess I'm getting a new keyboard tomorrow. I won't be spending a ton of money because I don't really need a fancy keyboard. I'm actually in awe that my monitor has held up for as long as it has (it's a gaming monitor I bought when I worked at Best Buy so it's about a decade old at this point).

Work kept me well occupied today (last day of A Christmas Carol load-in) and every time I went out, or even into the lobby, I could see the voting line for one of the downtown supersites wrapping half way around the block (and Chicago city blocks are slightly larger than most). There has been an outdoor line of varying lengths at that site since early voting started, but today people were patiently staying in line even in the rain.

About an hour ago I got a text from my dad letting me know that my mom is scheduled to have a cancerous kidney removed in ten days. (In fairness, the schedule was the only part I wasn't already aware of.)

I picked up a 16oz margarita with my take-out tacos tonight and I'm trying really hard not to down the whole thing.