Current Weather in Indianapolis: Cloudy, Windy, Rainy and Cool Tept: 52 F (11 C)""If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress." -Will Rogers
Did you all remember to vote today? I stopped by the my polling place around 4:00 this afternoon. We had the pleasure of voting on those electronic machines here in Indianapolis. Apparently a number of people voting on them received a "duplicate vote" message, and they had to revote two or three times before their vote was computed. How encouraging!
Fortunately I didn't receive such a message.
What ever happened to those voting booths? Do you remember those? They looked like telephone booths with a curtain. We would enter the booth, pull a big lever and the curtain would close. We would flip a few switches, pull the lever again, the curtain would open back up and we were done! I know they were rather noisy, but there was something comforting in all of that clinking and clanking and whirling. I KNEW the machine was doing something. These electronic voting machines scare me a little. Three counties in Indiana had problems with them today, and the city of Muncie had to contact the courts in order to leave their polling places open an hour longer because of all the trouble they had.
Well anyway we voted and its over with. We are sitting here watching the returns on CNN. As usual, it looks like Indiana voted mosty Republican today. I don't think we will win the Senate this time (as I am watching this, the Republicans have nearly won it already) but hopefully we can at least take over the House.
I just returned home from a VERY long weekend out of town. God. In the past 48 hours, I have attended a funeral, had dinner on a river boat in New Orleans, walked through a museum and had lunch in Chicago, walked the beach at Indiana Dunes, toured a windmill, slept in a motel room that smelled like cat piss, drove 300 miles, voted, caught my dog running down the street, unpacked, cooked dinner and cleaned my house.
Talk about living in the fast lane. Now, I'm going to sit my ass down and enjoy a strong drink.... JD and coke sounds good!
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