I am at home now for basically two weeks of vacation… well, except that I have a meeting I’m going to on Tuesday. And two conference calls on Wednesday. and I’m going in all day long on Friday for two planning meetings. And the following Friday I’ll go to work to catch up on email and such before I *really* come back the following Monday.

But I’m basically on vacation… Woo!

My plans:

• Non Stop Gavel to Gavel watching of both conventions (the primary reason for the precise timing of this vacation)
• Catch up on putting financial information into Quicken
• Catch up on old email
• Do a bunch of reading
• Catch up on some genealogy stuff
• Work on a handful of different projects I’ve had on my list for a long time, but haven’t had any time for
• Sleep
• Spend some time with Brandy and Amy
• Have Fun

And that will be that.

As of the overnight 06 UTC update, Tropical Storm Fay was still just sitting over our old house.

It got there yesterday and then basically just decided to stop.

There should be another update out any time now and I imagine it will eventually move on, but for the moment…

I’m sure it would be fun to be there right now, but I don’t mind all that much that I’m somewhere else now.

The election night party for Darcy Burner (who for awhile after her house burned down was staying with the family of a friend of Amy’s from school) was within walking distance of our house. We walked by it on a trip to the grocery store after we dropped off our ballots at the polling place. We did not go in. Someone from Slog did though and remarked on the young people and took a picture.

Edit 07:34 UTC: More from Slog on the party in our neighborhood here.

Drat, I am out of time, and with six more items on the ballot.

Five of those are judges. And to be honest, I just don’t have enough info here to make good decisions, at least not hurrying like this. One day maybe I’ll know enough about local affairs to feel good about these, but not today. I really think judges should be appointed rather than elected anyway. So I don’t feel too horrible leaving these blank for now.

So:

King County Superior Court Position 10: Three candidates, no time to research, I’m leaving it blank.

King County Superior Court Position 22: Three candidates, no time to research, I’m leaving it blank.

King County Superior Court Position 26: Only two candidates, so I’ll write myself in.

King County Superior Court Position 37: Three candidates, no time to research, I’m leaving it blank.

King County Superior Court Position 53: Only two candidates, so I’ll write myself in.

The last item is for “Precinct Committee Officer”. It says “For this office only: If you consider yourself a Democrat or Republican, you may vote for a candidate of that party. For a write-in candidate, include party.” Although I was an Obama delegate in the primaries, at this point I do not consider myself either a Democrat or a Republican, so I will leave this blank too.

And that is that.

Now time to rush to the polling place and get this in.

I have 20 minutes.

Only one candidate (Ann Schindler).

My vote:

Samuel Minter