@Steve-Miller said: … and go stay somewhere else. That was always my plan. The problem is when there’s a huge power outage everyone else has that plan and the nearby hotels fill up. Once I spent a week hopping between hotels every night or two for a week. You’d believe the reports that power will be restored tomorrow, then when it isn’t, and you call to extend, they say no because the room has been rented out. So I find another hotel. Then the same thing happens again. The next month I bought the generator.

We have a whole slew of choices. Early polling sites. Scattered around (not your "regular" election day site) but still very close. They open maybe three weeks before the election and the last day of voting is the day before election day. You can request that a ballot be sent to you. Comes via USPS. It's tracked by the county, so they send you an email when they send it out, when you return it, and when it is processed. You can return it via USPS or drop it off at an early voting site. We had one ballot get lost via USPS so now we drop it off. Regular polling places on election day.

I used to love these. I wouldn’t eat them now, too processed. I don’t know if I thought it was rib meat or not; I just assumed it was pork with bbq sauce.

@andyd those are lovely! @daniel apologies, I don't like watching house videos

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@kluurs holy cow! That’s a crazy huge number! also sounds like fun. In the end, we only had the two groups. There are some families with kids in the neighborhood, but we are at the end of our street. And we didn’t have decorations up earlier, so those factors might be part of it. Oh, and our immediate neighbors next door have two daughters but they are away, and our across-the-street neighbors don’t have kids. So maybe I could have predicted this, but we had more last year so I wasn’t expecting our turn out to be this low. There are two places in town (not our neighborhood but along the commute to work) that do amazing Halloween displays, one with a huge selection of those massive balloon characters, very very cute, young kid-friendly. The other is the scary kind, with giant skeletons, a skeleton dinosaur, a scarecrow man that looks like its must be 10 feet tall. I wonder how many visitors those places get.

California update. More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration cannot be found on the state’s voter rolls, according to a legal filing Saturday by an immigrant-rights group. It’s the first outside analysis of a list that the Department of Justice has used to threaten prosecution of election officials. The analysis also found that thousands of U.S. citizens appear to be flagged as ineligible to vote on the government’s list. The contention was made in a filing by two data analysts at the University of California, Los Angeles. They analyzed the 20,930 names that the department demanded that California election officials treat as possible illegal voters by separating their ballots during the vote count on Election Day. https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-noncitizen-voters-midterms-45b31d5aefb03723f0e59f6084e918d4

We’ve had two groups so far, and one of them was three boys not in costumes (they looked to be maybe 13 y/o and seemed sheepish!) There’s only 10 minutes left. Phooey!

Nevada and Connecticut won't for long. Link to video We get an extra hour of sleep tonight. Yeah.

@Steve-Miller said: Absolutely not. You must have the jawline. Or be a female pop star if some rumors are to be believed. What a circus.

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Van gay

I'll let someone else go there....

Also, I disagree with his his Oprah️ line... if only because Nicki Minaj showed us who she was the first time, and that was long before her transformation for lack of a better word. And, he's self-righteous. And, nevermind his own politics. Suffice it to say that he's a hypocrite.

I'd love to hear Renauda's take on this.