I'm here-----------

just glad we are getting to the end of this political harrassment. I still think they need to drastically restrict the length of the process, AND the amount of $$$ that they are allowed to expend in the process as well. It is obscene to be spending the amount of money, both for traveling, and TV/print/mail advertising that is being done. And every other pollster needs to be either shot on sight, or deported--or inducted into the armed forces and sent to do something productive for their country.

The lines, and the time being spent in them, for early voting, are unbelieveable! People spending up to 6 hours yesterday, and 4-5 hours rather common. They only had 10-2 to vote yesterday, but people were showing up at 2, and then waiting 4++ hours to finally get inside. Seems like another lost opportunity---go down the lines giving away free coffee, and then come by later with 'pay-to-use' jiffy-johns! I wouldn't want to stand in line that long, with or without free coffee. They are figuring that about 35-40% of the votoers have either voted at early spots, 11 in the county, or used absentee ballots, and that the lines tomorrow should be short and manageable, or virtually non-existent. Hope so.

Missed a few days of blogging last week. Our modem for the DSL went away, sometime on Tuesady. It had worked in the morning, but had failed by afternoon. After thinking AT&T may have been doing something, on Wednesday, Carol spent an hour or so on the phone with the Tech Support people, doing and redoing the steps they suggested, and they finally decided to send us a replacement modem, (3-5 days shipping time,) which arrived by Friday noon. I was able to use, the enclosed CD, walk thru the installation, and get us back on line again. Now just have to close up the box and return the old modem. Glad it was relatively simple redoing the modem installation. Did the initial rework while bypassing our router, which meant Carol's laptop was not online, but once we determined that the new modem was OK, I plugged the router back into the system, and everything is working again.

Hope everyone gets out to vote tomorrow, and hope MY candidate wins!!!