Random thoughts

I have to pick the boy toy up at the airport in a few hours. He's flying back from a week with his parents in San Antonio. I always insist on knowing the flight number when I'm picking someone up from the airport, because in 1989 I was supposed to pick up a co-worker at the airport, heard about a jetliner crash in Iowa (I think, IIRC), and had a panic attack because I had NO idea where she was coming from, which airline she was using, etc. (She has family and friends all over the country.) Fortunately, she was NOT on that plane and was waiting for me at Logan Airport.

I'll be glad to have him back, because he keeps me on schedule (in an "accountability partner" kind of way). I have been in major ADHD mode these last few days. Baronial newsletter, finishing "get out the vote" postcards to get them to Florida before Hurricane Milton, watching TV, reading news stories on the computer, blah blah blah. Meanwhile, I have a highly technical feature article to write.

The good news about early voting: I'm scheduled to work for all eight days of it. The bad news about early voting: I have been assigned to a different early-voting station. Not that much farther away, but still, I was looking forward to seeing the folks who work in College Park. Particularly that lifestyle blogger who supports her whole family with that blog. Dang, I wish I could do that!

Now that I am a baronial chronicler, I really find this piece hilarious. And eerily aligned with today's Nobel Prize in physics.