Click images for desktop size: "5 Centimeters a Second" by Kabegami I was exhausted but still didn't sleep well last night.
Woke up twice. Got out of bed and wandered briefly. Pain.
Managed to make a cocktail of ibuprofen and Tylenol that seems to tamp down everything to tolerable levels. Worry about what it might be doing to my kidneys but that's a fear for daylight and for some other tomorrow.
I got about three hours of sleep all together. I'm in pretty good spirits. Very good spirits.
I got my Christmas early! I got a new Roomba!
Now, aside from the coolosity of Xmas in early November, its a ROOMBA!

Click image: "Anime Christmas" by Unknown I won my first Roomba in my football contest (where has that magical picking talent gone?). I fell in love with it.
I like clean but I'm just not very good at it . . . The Roomba is.
While I did an endless amount of tests fascinated about how much more dirt it could pick up than me with a broom or a traditional vacuum cleaner, I never did any experiments to see if it really saved time. Maybe it doesn't but there's no question it cleans about an equal amount of dirt than I do AFTER I've done my cleaning!
Most of the time wasted, for me, is in watching the thing do its job, rescuing it from a nest of wires or fishing it out from whatever awkward place it decided to finish in. (The worst is under the bed - just out of reach, but at least I'm crawling on my belly on an immaculate floor!)
I can't fire it up to go drive the dogs crazy until after noon.
I can hardly wait.
I'm still discouraged that only one of my mailed money orders has been credited to my accounts. It seems a heck of a way to blow my low credit rating. I can't absorb too many 39 buck late fees for being late with my 10 buck payment, especially when they should have had the thing in plenty of time!

Click images for desktop size: "Conflict Anime" by Unknown I'm not quite numb to this predicament yet. I soon will be. Mailing off the payment to the one company that bothered to post my payment properly.
My puppy's aunt was sick this weekend. The only bright spot to that is that her insurance was reinstated Saturday.
Her insurance was cancelled for like four months due to a clerical error by her employer. They denied responsibility and her manager didn't step up to take the responsibility for the error, which left my friend vulnerable and worried for over a third of a year.
Since she keeps the cruddy job only because of the insurance this was a pretty nasty hardship. A hardship for no good reason or purpose. Who needs unions? Why do workers need to be heard?
She's waiting on the results of a couple of tests to see exactly what's wrong. At least she doesn't have the fear of the thousand buck blood test hanging over her head.
And finally today all this mess will be over. Its election day!
What I'm manly worried about is the Republican and right wing rhetoric. Whoever gets elected the Republicans have run such a nasty campaign that I fear they may have created as huge a schism as Bush ever envisioned. He created two countries, I hope we can become one again.
With Palin being an acknowledged anti-American, with her husbands deep involvement in a state secessionist movement and that groups continued financial support of her I worry.
The Republicans keep calling on the Ghost of Ronald Reagan. I remember Reagan as governor of California. He and Senator Hawyikawa were both trying to ram through a law that would enable them to throw the hippies and any other dissidents into concentration camps. The state still owned the interment camps where they flung the Nessi during WWII. It wasn't a threat nor a lame joke. It was their vision of recreating the world in some sick fantasy.
It took the Stanford Marching Band at the Rose Bowl to bring enough attention with their "Salute To RAY-GUN" to squash that and get Reagan out of Sacramento.

Click images for desktop size: "Storm" by Marvel Comics I still get the impression that Palin is an absolute airhead, but she likes to kill stuff so she clearly has little respect for the rights of others. Her husband comes off like a airhead too but he still calls too many shots and would be the de facto VP.
McCain is a coward. Cowards spend a lot of time doing nasty things to prove that they aren't cowards. So I worry.
If Obama gets elected I fear that the racists and loonies will kill him. I think they'll make it a mission and view themselves as heroic as the jihadists do.
That sickens me but it seems an inevitable aftermath. Along with Alaska finally seceding. Palin will say she's got the oil and pull it all out. She'll be bitter and vengeful if she loses. I take that as granted.
I'm also worried that Obama has not got enough respect for privacy and for human rights. He's voted to many times to curtail human rights of Americans, maybe because he wanted to look tough on terrorism. I wanted somebody in who'd be looking out for me to live like a human being and like an American.
Still, there seems to be more of a chance of that under an Obama administration that a Republican, being a free American I mean. Will Americans ever be brave, tolerant and free ever again?
Or will we just stay obese, hateful people cringing in our panic rooms passing firm judgements against anyone who has different colored eyes or a different name for god.
Best to vote.
Best to hope. Even to think instead of just reacting.