What a dull and dreary day today (at least up until about 1pm when I went to bed). We had a rain storm this morning, and the noise it made on our roof put both of us and 1 of our kitties on our balcony to... well... watch the rain come down. It's the same storm system that has wreaked havoc in California and Nevada, and causing problems everywhere else. Our problem has been some flooding in low-lying areas, and as I type this, I'm watching a clip on CNN where yet another Phoenician muckhead is getting yanked by helicopter off the roof of his car because he ignored a "Street Closed" sign.
We've been watching the first season of Babylon 5 on DVD. It's become our new morning ritual (we watch either DVDs of a show's entire season one episode at a time) whenever we don't have new shows to watch off Tivo. We got a bunch of DVDs of TV shows for Christmas, that will hopefully keep us entertained during the writers' strike.
I've decided to try to keep more informed about this year's political race. Today, I tried to request an early ballot for the presidential primary to be held on February 5th. It turns out that the online voter registration was down, and the fax machine at the county recorder's office wasn't answering. Hopefully, the changes I made online last Friday will get us early ballots but if not, I guess we'll go to the primary polling site and see how this happens. I was hoping for an early ballot because, every time I vote, there are dozens (hundreds) of other offices that are usually voted on at the same time, and it's a total random crap shoot as I totally guess and make random marks on the ballot (I kid you not, some of the local offices I voted by how their name sounded as I said them silently in my head). Hopefully, with an early ballot, I can at least go online and do some research and make some sort of educated vote. My links (these are admittely only presidential, I'm on the lookout for local links):
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