"Fried" or "Read, Don't Write"

I haven't been able to write anything here for a while.

My brain is toast.

I have been doing more reading. I just finished a great book. "Gravity" by Tess Gerritsen. I just re-started "Fear Nothing" by Dean Koontz.

Ummmm...

I've been working on my laptop for the past few days. It's been taking longer and longer to boot. I unloaded Symantec's Norton System Works and replaced the anti-virus part with McAfee. Seems to be loading much faster now. I also did about 20 MB of Windows 2000 updates.

Yup, smoother.

"Happy Thanksgiving!"

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Cyn and I are going to my folks' house for dinner tonight. Just a quick 25 mile hop on the Interstate.

It's going to be a small crowd this year. Only about 40. LOL Yeah, I come from a fairly large Irish-Catholic family.

My dad's doing his annual rotisserie turkey and my mom's doing the side dishes... and major "supervising." The food's always great and the "show" between my mom and dad is always... Um, entertaining. LOL

We used to have Thanksgiving dinner at my grandparents' house, but they both are getting too old to host such a large gathering. My folks' house isn't near as big as my grandparents', so it feels like there are more people than there really are.

Hope everyone's safe and happy!

"Ham"

Well, the world hasn't come to an end yet.

I'm BBQing a ham steak and some red potatoes.

I was especially tired when I came home from work today.

There were four accidents within 25 miles on the southbound 405. Slow go.

We have Phil Hendrie on the radio right now. More of the same.

My knees hurt.

I took two Tylenol to get rid of a headache I've had since 2pm.

The war machine continues.

It has taken me 45 minutes to post this.

"Election Day"

We voted tonight.

The whole thing only took about an hour. Not too bad considering that we had a record turnout this year.

In Orange County, we use electronic voting. Not the infamous Diebold touch-screen voting machines, but a computer deal with a 8-1/2" X 11" color LCD screen. It was piece of cake to use. I liked it, Cyn doesn't trust it. We had the option to use paper to vote, but they ran out of envelopes, so everyone was forced to use the electronic machines.

Now, one of the reasons I like to vote is to "people watch."

We're obviously in an ubergeek district. Bill Gates-esque hair, coke-bottle glasses, belt-clip keyrings with way too many keys, and pocket protectors. And he was morbidly obese. Yes, that was just the guy behind me! LOL

The "School Marm" was the funniest. She was in her late 40's and had a scowl that would scare Frankenstein's monster! I swear that if she even tried to smile, her face would have cracked right off!

Lessee, the people running the polling place. A man as old as Methuselah, a young man and woman, and a Russian. Real nice people. Everything ran smooth. Ya signed in and got a paper with a number on it. A poll worker at the end of the table waited till a booth opened, gave you an access code, ya voted and got the Hell out.

Right now, we're listening to the election results on our 1939 Farnsworth Low-Boy radio. Kinda neat listening to this stuff on a 65 year old radio!