Voted For Harris! Tuesday With A Rat! Genre-Bending! Another Rejection!

I got my email off to the lawyer in Kokomo, cleaned up and headed out the door a little after 11 AM. First stop, was voting. Straight ticket Democrat, all the judges were voted against. Minnetrista was closed, so no apples. I gassed up at Centennial and Wheeling. The car was returned with about 20 minutes to spare. I had time to spare waiting for the bus, so I got some beef lo mein (and I cannot recall the name of the place!). On the bus, I talked to KH on the phone almost up to my drop-off spot.

Back home, I did a little work on my email and watched a little more Longmire. About one-thirty, I decided to lie on the futon with the vibrating heating pad working on my stiff neck and keep watching my show. Only I snoozed at some point. I heard a noise, then I heard another. When I opened my eyes, the rat was making off with the remains of a pack of pita bread. I stirred and he hid in the entranceway. Then he made an approach to the pack of bread. I yelled. He disappeared. I put the pack of bread in the kitchen and under one of the rat traps. There is also a ball of bread in the trap. I wait for his death.

I cleaned the bathroom and the area around my workstation. The bedroom was tidied. Then dishes were washed and I killed the garbage disposal.

I fixed a chicken breast for dinner. More Longmire was watched. 

One thing asked at my polygraph exam is whether I had an unapproved woman living with me (CC). The PO particularly wanted this question asked. I suspect he was miffed at not noticing her property whenever he came in to inspect the place until his last visit. It just crossed my mind that he is more willing to trust the polygraph more than his own judgment and eyes. Perhaps, also, he has never lived with a woman. No way a woman would have put up with my untidiness that should have been apparent to his eyes. I guess he did not look in the bathroom - there is only one toothbrush. When my niece was around ten, she came to visit me and wound up spending time with the two women I was dating at the time. At one, she counted the toothbrushes (she had two daughters) and asked the girlfriend where I slept when I stayed over. Toothbrushes indicate a close relationship.

Yesterday, I drew the remainder of the cash from my old bank. An older woman, about my age, said something to the effect that the current administration had failed to fix all the problems. I asked what problems. Her answer: all the world's problems. I said nothing more; she seemed to require too much of the American Presidency. Reading Populist Apocalypticism in Arizona by Joe Perticone (The Bulwark) today, especially the following, I think I have a clue to that woman's thinking:

Beuter doesn’t have a lack of faith in elections so much as an undying faith in Donald Trump. Sounding much more hopeful than the Republican politicians who all spoke in dark tones during the rally, Avila put it this way:

I am really not concerned about this election at all. I think anyone that’s looking at the facts, it’s a clear cut decision. What he did in four years was incredible. He kept us out of war. We had an incredible economy. And if we look at Kamala’s record, come on. It’s, yeah, it’s pretty easy to make a good decision. I think the people will do that when they get to the polls, or when they make their vote, and wherever they are. I’m good. Not a care in the world.

I did not put the work into my story as was done by the authors profiled in Navigating ‘Dark Space’: How Rob Hart and Alex Segura Mashed Up Spy and Speculative Fiction, but it is nice to have some company in mashing spies and speculative fiction.

More tidying and more blogging will be the rest of my night. I made a run-down to the store for RC and smokes.

Trump has Indiana and KY; Harris has Vermont. Pray.

7:38 PM

Updated 8:34.

The Republicans will still control Indiana. I do not understand the huge numbers of early voters other than people who did nto want to vote today.

What I am seeing at https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/live-election-results/#live-results_state leaves me think any turnout in Indiana is only marginally higher, certainly not anything record-setting.

And another rejection just came in:

Thank you for your submission to Swing. Although we must pass on Problem Solving, we appreciated the opportunity to consider it.

Thanks again. Best of luck.

Sincerely,

Madison Loud

Swing

sch: 8:43 PM