weekend update

Had a lovely if too-brief time at moonfiregirl's. Too brief because I waited an hour for the temperature to drop before putting on my expensive, largely silk Blue Confection, and boy howdy, was I glad I did. Props to samemaha for doing a fine, secure job of binding my hands. I wish I could remember everbody's names, dammit.

Took Wendling to Uwajimaya along with eeyorerin & co. I wasn't very social, but as she points out, there'll be time for that later. Trips to Waji's are very much a kid thing.

The live action version of The Tick is funny, but not as funny as the novel version of The Hotel New Hampshire. Ethnic humor for WASPs.

I am Democrat. Hear me ring.

I just spent the last couple of hours volunteering for the Democrats, working the phones to identify voters for get-out-the-vote calls later. Lessons learned:

• Lots of people in Redmond don't answer their phone between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.


• A surprisingly large number of people don't want to tell anybody who they're voting for.


• The age and gender breakdowns fit the stereotype pretty well, at least in the Redmond precinct I was calling: women and younger people lean toward Us.


• Democrats make good zucchini bread.


• Bill Clinton is a Jedi speech master. Too bad he can't run.