Election Day

Went & voted in the mid afternoon when I know from my experience as an old poll worker it will be VERY quiet.  No lines at ALL.  I think the media would do better to tell the folks about the typical ebb and flow at the polls rather than scare everyone off by talking about long lines!

Everyone get their free Starbucks coffee?  I am sortta caffeined out but maybe my hubby and I will walk down & get some later....

Got more library books from the suburban library around the corner from my therapist - My old ones were late due to transport problems last week & I am going to OWE the library quite a bit of $ - The projected fine amounts to ALL my purchases at Ojai last Friday! as the $.30 fine per book is more than I PAID for some of my mysteries!  Oh, well, they need the $. 

I don't like taxes, either - but they NEED the $! WE have to fix the bridges so they won't fall down on us - and mend roads and all sorts of civic duties - firefighters and law enforcement - and make an investment in public health...I could go on.  I would think that the very successful would be grateful to the country that had allowed them to prosper and would feel indebted to it.  I know my father did. He was glad to pay his taxes. 

This country had enabled him to rise from poverty, be the first person in his family to go to college, and his veteran benefits helped him buy his first (and only) house.  He was actually audited by the IRS once, because they thought he must be hiding something!  The IRS man said my father was one of the few honest taxpayers in his income bracket that he had ever seen! 

My husband commented today that the whole election process was so complicated - It is - and all the more reason we have to make SURE we educate the upcoming generations WELL. 

On the thrifty side of things - I have installed a varnished wooden boat flag pole in the bathroom to hold the extra toilet paper....A bit off the floor to keep things clean & a plastic dish under it.  It does save space, and I just like the wood of the pole!  I only found some nice green plastic flower pots around my therapist and I am going to wash them  and make Xmas containers out of them, I think - for presents???

Our computer seems to have unraveled. So I am on the other terminal/hard drive - the one we had up at the beach.  It was a bargain at the time.  Really glad we have a backup - as I am so computer-dependent!  Worried about all my graphics, tho.

Autumn has finally come to L.A. (October was one of the hottest on record!) and the change makes me sleepy  - I feel like a bear yearning for hibernation...but that will pass.  And in the meantime I can have coffee for a change...maybe even some free from Starbucks! ( have already gotten my free Barnes & Noble one).

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