Election Night in Loopyville

Let me start by saying that my daughters were NOT taking me seriously in my efforts to do absentee voting by the book. Thanks to Daughter 1’s boyfriend, I have dozens of pictures of each stage of the procedure to back me up.

There was the showing of the empty ballots

There was the anonymous filling out of ballots

There was the inserting into and sealing of the (naked) envelope

There was the signing of the certification form

There was the witness signing of the certification form

There was the affixing of the certification form to the naked envelope

There was the inserting of the naked envelope affixed with voter-signed and witness-signed certification form into a second envelope and addressing it

There was a Happy End

I mailed off our ballots two days ago. I can already say with certainty, even though I didn’t look, that the Loopyville contingent of Milwaukee’s Ward 132 went 0% for the current pwesident. I can also say that I feel different. Like maybe there is a proverbial light at the end of this crappy four-year-long tunnel. Like maybe it is no longer my civic responsibility to follow every outrageous or scandalous twist and every shitshow turn between now and November 3^rd.

I have my final golf lesson tomorrow. After that I might do some gardening.

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Postscript

I really should know better by now than to make predictions. After writing the above yesterday, I was too tired to post it and decided to wait until morning. The first thing I see after firing up my laptop is the news about the pwesident’s positive Covid test . . . .