I voted. As I was walking up to get into line, one of the cops at the polling station was chasing after a fellow who'd just left -- to tell him that the optical scanner had spat out his ballot, and would he please come back and fill out a replacement. The scanner continued to balk on subsequent ballots, though. By the time I got to the front of ( Read more... )

The landlady is having some work done on the house. It would appear that in addition to rebuilding the back porches and fixing the roof (which I hope works this time, as they tried this before, and it didn't), the contractors are patching the back steps. Woohoo ( Read more... )