Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Mainstream America--you've elected a moron, and a narcissist, and a sex offender, and a felon, and for your convenience, it's the same goddamn person. *slow clap* Fucking brilliant. I leave you (present company excluded, of course) alone for a few hours, and I can't trust you to do the right goddamn thing?
And the fucking moron is leading the popular vote? WTAF?
I'm sorry, but I'm pissed off.
BTW, I know the Senate is red now, too. How's the House doing?
Thanks, Biden. If you'd appointed a real attorney general, trump would have been in jail years ago. Taking your cue from Weimar Germany, you damned wimp. Shoulda fired Garland after a few months. You've handed our republic to a mad king; I hope he does have you arrested, you weak fool. You GDed compromising, weak, senile old fool, you'll go down in history with Neville Chamberlain.
I am freaking out. At the time I type this, 8:15pm pst there are four leaning-red states which will decide for Trump. Holy shit. I am SO disappointed in the people of America. What will we do if T wins. What. Will. We. Do?
Today I got the graphics card I ordered with very little research from Amazon. I'm an engineer. How hard can it be to put in a graphics card?
Well, this new thing has copper tubes in it and is massive and I had to take out the other graphics card I had been using, but then there was another graphics card in there as well, which is great, since the new one didn't do anything.
Apparently there was a secret cable hiding INSIDE the computer that I needed to plug into the graphics card.
It's funny, because plugging that cable in made the monitor go dark. So I unplugged it.
Internet, that trickster, told me to uninstall the driver for the first graphics card, then install the driver for the new one. That made the monitor go dark even with the new thingy unplugged.
Internet also said to tinker with BIOS settings, which wasn't going to work if the graphics card was properly connected, since the monitor won't work with that graphics card.
Lucky day! There's a computer repair place and he works on nerdy computers more powerful than mine and made the computer work by removing the thingy I bought and selling me a different one.
And now I am trying to focus on getting caught up after losing hours of work time today. And I had really intended to cram through a lot of work so I could release it gradually over the coming days if I need to look busy and am not feeling as worky. Hopefully it is a joyful week and I feel like getting shit done. Hopefully!!!
It was! I had no idea my computer had a spare cable already plugged into the power supply and tucked out of the way. The nice lady at Amazon suggested I look for it and I thought she was just cray cray. But there it was. Neato!
This new one doesn't need that extra cable.
But also, I think the computer problem I have isn't even due to the graphics card... waaaaaaaahaaahahaaaaahaaaaah it takes my mind off of the stress of the election results at least.
Had to go to a friend's father's funeral on Monday in Staunton, VA. On the way back to DC we were getting a bit peckish so decided to hit the Arby's drive thru (don't hate!) in Strasburg, VA. If you're not familiar with VA geography, Strasburg is about one hour, 15 minutes west of DC with a population of 7,000. The nearest larger city is Winchester, which despite being the birthplace of Patsy Cline is still a hamlet (albeit with a population of 145,000).
Anyway...we went through the drive-thru and I was sitting in the passenger's seat wearing my "Kamala Harris" pin. We get to the drive-thru window, and the VERY NOT DEMOCRATIC-LOOKING DUDE working the window told me, with no prompting from us, that he liked my pin. He then proceeded to volunteer that he voted for Kamala. Between our requests for extra "horsey sauce," he told us he was a Republican and that when it was between Biden and Trump he was voting for Trump. But then Kamala became the candidate and he said he "listened to what she had to say" and decided to vote for her.
After he closed the window and we got ready to pull out, my wife and I looked at each other and we both recognized that we had just been struck by lightning. I've NEVER had an encounter like that with another human being in my life, let alone in the Arby's drive-thru in Strasburg, VA. He wasn't whispery or secretive when he told us what he had done, but at the same time it still felt like he was sharing an intimate secret, and something that he was very proud to have done.
This is just one anecdote among the sea of conflicting and disconcerting data we're seeing tonight. But I heard Mr. Beef and Cheddar's oracular message loud and clear. I'm about as far from a "religious person" as you can get, but this was clearly a divine revelation. "If [the Arby's drive-thru guy] is for us, who can be against us? KAMALA WILL WIN!
All righty then. Dinner was ... decent. Should have sliced the cucumbers finer, and the meatballs needed more lemongrass, but then, I am my own harshest food critic, and Mom and Dad enjoyed it, so whatever.
Looks like we'll have that wealthy Batboy from Florida to kick around for a while longer -- crap. Also, I'm a little anxious at how Harris is underperforming in various places, but it's still way early, so not looking up real estate in Costa Rica just yet (FWIW I also really liked Iceland when we went there for a week, so there are other options).
And just now, a bunch of southern states are going for PAB, no surprise...
I voted absentee so I didn't get an "I Voted" sticker, and I really wanted one. My polling place is next to one of my dog's favorite playgrounds, so I peeked in to see if I could get a sticker. The place was PACKED! That's a good thing since I live in one of two liberal districts in the whole state. We have Prop 1 on the ballot to get open Republican primaries reinstated. Would give us a better chance of getting rid of some of the more nutty nut jobs during primaries.
I got a mail-in ballot, then took it to the library, put it in the box, then went upstairs to where they were doing early voting, and asked them for a sticker.
Here in my county in AZ, they send an "I Voted Early in Cochise County" sticker with our absentee ballots. No idea if they do it in the rest of the state but I appreciate that they do it where I live.
A little over four months ago, when the ad break FINALLY came in THAT debate about 45 minutes or so in, I flipped over to Wonkette, went to the comments, and sorted by top first.
And there was our Editrix (from a half hour or so earlier) at the top of the comments with words that felt like they came out of my soul:
"Oh no...
Oh dear...
Oh my fucking god we're all gonna die."
I'll never forget that, and I'll always remain a subscriber because of that and all the other stuff (AOTK).
And NOW, here we are. OHJB did what was ultimately the right thing, and Kamala has run the most amazing campaign and we might actually be rid of the former guy...
What a world.
I often say "ugh this timeline" but this might be a real amazing part of the current timeline. And it's not lost on me that getting the first woman elected president will certainly have benefitted from the crazy abbreviated timeline....so I'm all here for that.
I opted for what I'm calling taco Tuesday. Aldi has a plant based taco filling, I made a pot of red beans & rice, bought a jar of queso & added some salad mix. On a fajita wrap. Not really tacos but eh, yo soy una gringa.
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Mainstream America--you've elected a moron, and a narcissist, and a sex offender, and a felon, and for your convenience, it's the same goddamn person. *slow clap* Fucking brilliant. I leave you (present company excluded, of course) alone for a few hours, and I can't trust you to do the right goddamn thing?
And the fucking moron is leading the popular vote? WTAF?
I'm sorry, but I'm pissed off.
BTW, I know the Senate is red now, too. How's the House doing?
Thanks, Biden. If you'd appointed a real attorney general, trump would have been in jail years ago. Taking your cue from Weimar Germany, you damned wimp. Shoulda fired Garland after a few months. You've handed our republic to a mad king; I hope he does have you arrested, you weak fool. You GDed compromising, weak, senile old fool, you'll go down in history with Neville Chamberlain.
I am freaking out. At the time I type this, 8:15pm pst there are four leaning-red states which will decide for Trump. Holy shit. I am SO disappointed in the people of America. What will we do if T wins. What. Will. We. Do?
Polls close in Arizona 12 minutes ago first results are in:
Kamala virtually tied with Trump
each with 49.6%
Ruben 52.9% to Scairy Fake 45.4%
Remember, peeps Arizona wasn’t called until Saturday last time
Courage everybody it’s not over
Today I got the graphics card I ordered with very little research from Amazon. I'm an engineer. How hard can it be to put in a graphics card?
Well, this new thing has copper tubes in it and is massive and I had to take out the other graphics card I had been using, but then there was another graphics card in there as well, which is great, since the new one didn't do anything.
Apparently there was a secret cable hiding INSIDE the computer that I needed to plug into the graphics card.
It's funny, because plugging that cable in made the monitor go dark. So I unplugged it.
Internet, that trickster, told me to uninstall the driver for the first graphics card, then install the driver for the new one. That made the monitor go dark even with the new thingy unplugged.
Internet also said to tinker with BIOS settings, which wasn't going to work if the graphics card was properly connected, since the monitor won't work with that graphics card.
Lucky day! There's a computer repair place and he works on nerdy computers more powerful than mine and made the computer work by removing the thingy I bought and selling me a different one.
And now I am trying to focus on getting caught up after losing hours of work time today. And I had really intended to cram through a lot of work so I could release it gradually over the coming days if I need to look busy and am not feeling as worky. Hopefully it is a joyful week and I feel like getting shit done. Hopefully!!!
The best computer graphics cards have a series of tubes.
Was that an additional power cable? All my graphics cards need an additional power cable.
It was! I had no idea my computer had a spare cable already plugged into the power supply and tucked out of the way. The nice lady at Amazon suggested I look for it and I thought she was just cray cray. But there it was. Neato!
This new one doesn't need that extra cable.
But also, I think the computer problem I have isn't even due to the graphics card... waaaaaaaahaaahahaaaaahaaaaah it takes my mind off of the stress of the election results at least.
Those graphics cards can suck a lot of power.
I have four computers that need working on. Maybe I should stage a diversion for my attention.
for those who want an appropriate distraction, the Poet's Passage in Puerto Rico is doing their live open mic, music, poetry, etc.
https://www.facebook.com/ladyleeandrews/videos/800023875507783
Had to go to a friend's father's funeral on Monday in Staunton, VA. On the way back to DC we were getting a bit peckish so decided to hit the Arby's drive thru (don't hate!) in Strasburg, VA. If you're not familiar with VA geography, Strasburg is about one hour, 15 minutes west of DC with a population of 7,000. The nearest larger city is Winchester, which despite being the birthplace of Patsy Cline is still a hamlet (albeit with a population of 145,000).
Anyway...we went through the drive-thru and I was sitting in the passenger's seat wearing my "Kamala Harris" pin. We get to the drive-thru window, and the VERY NOT DEMOCRATIC-LOOKING DUDE working the window told me, with no prompting from us, that he liked my pin. He then proceeded to volunteer that he voted for Kamala. Between our requests for extra "horsey sauce," he told us he was a Republican and that when it was between Biden and Trump he was voting for Trump. But then Kamala became the candidate and he said he "listened to what she had to say" and decided to vote for her.
After he closed the window and we got ready to pull out, my wife and I looked at each other and we both recognized that we had just been struck by lightning. I've NEVER had an encounter like that with another human being in my life, let alone in the Arby's drive-thru in Strasburg, VA. He wasn't whispery or secretive when he told us what he had done, but at the same time it still felt like he was sharing an intimate secret, and something that he was very proud to have done.
This is just one anecdote among the sea of conflicting and disconcerting data we're seeing tonight. But I heard Mr. Beef and Cheddar's oracular message loud and clear. I'm about as far from a "religious person" as you can get, but this was clearly a divine revelation. "If [the Arby's drive-thru guy] is for us, who can be against us? KAMALA WILL WIN!
But it's not looking good. 8:20pm, pst. Fuck.
I needed to hear this.
I like Arby's.
I like horsey sauce.
I find myself quietly humming the mad scene from Lucia Di Lammermoor.
All righty then. Dinner was ... decent. Should have sliced the cucumbers finer, and the meatballs needed more lemongrass, but then, I am my own harshest food critic, and Mom and Dad enjoyed it, so whatever.
Looks like we'll have that wealthy Batboy from Florida to kick around for a while longer -- crap. Also, I'm a little anxious at how Harris is underperforming in various places, but it's still way early, so not looking up real estate in Costa Rica just yet (FWIW I also really liked Iceland when we went there for a week, so there are other options).
And just now, a bunch of southern states are going for PAB, no surprise...
Evening/Morning Workers. Have dragged myself from bed of sickness to hopefully not watch the end of the world with y'all.
I voted absentee so I didn't get an "I Voted" sticker, and I really wanted one. My polling place is next to one of my dog's favorite playgrounds, so I peeked in to see if I could get a sticker. The place was PACKED! That's a good thing since I live in one of two liberal districts in the whole state. We have Prop 1 on the ballot to get open Republican primaries reinstated. Would give us a better chance of getting rid of some of the more nutty nut jobs during primaries.
I got a mail-in ballot, then took it to the library, put it in the box, then went upstairs to where they were doing early voting, and asked them for a sticker.
Here in my county in AZ, they send an "I Voted Early in Cochise County" sticker with our absentee ballots. No idea if they do it in the rest of the state but I appreciate that they do it where I live.
We're all in family court waiting to find out who gets custody of us
Even worse: Whether we'll be like a Soviet satellite state occupied by a malevolent dictator.
LOL!!!
Still not sure why the court is even considering letting the abusive unemployed ex-stepfather with the meth addiction and 34 felonies take us.
How is this even happening. Will he still be sentenced if he wins? WTF is UP with this country?
Men have rights too, ya know.
Yeah, no shit.
Mrs. Hero (watching returns on MSNBC): Are you still watching this?
Me: Um, no, I never was, kiddo. (points to earbuds)
Mrs. Hero: Well, okay then. (switches to Hulu)
For the record *points to self*, cautiously optimistic, but reasonably terrified.
A little over four months ago, when the ad break FINALLY came in THAT debate about 45 minutes or so in, I flipped over to Wonkette, went to the comments, and sorted by top first.
And there was our Editrix (from a half hour or so earlier) at the top of the comments with words that felt like they came out of my soul:
"Oh no...
Oh dear...
Oh my fucking god we're all gonna die."
I'll never forget that, and I'll always remain a subscriber because of that and all the other stuff (AOTK).
And NOW, here we are. OHJB did what was ultimately the right thing, and Kamala has run the most amazing campaign and we might actually be rid of the former guy...
What a world.
I often say "ugh this timeline" but this might be a real amazing part of the current timeline. And it's not lost on me that getting the first woman elected president will certainly have benefitted from the crazy abbreviated timeline....so I'm all here for that.
Slow cooker chicken fajitas tonight! They're the best. Leftovers for days.
I opted for what I'm calling taco Tuesday. Aldi has a plant based taco filling, I made a pot of red beans & rice, bought a jar of queso & added some salad mix. On a fajita wrap. Not really tacos but eh, yo soy una gringa.
I mulched the little flower bed in my front yard, swept the house, and did 40 minutes of yoga. I'm now having my first glass of wine in 6 weeks.
I feel like a loved one is in major surgery with an unknown prognosis, and I'm in the waiting room. Very similar energy right now.
R Reich posted a poem about that today; you might be interested: "Holding Vigil" by Alison Luterman.
Thank you!