That I was excited to hear a radio ad for an IBM TS3200 Tape Library Expess?

[par-uh-dahym, -dim] - an example serving as a model; pattern.

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It’s finally over!  The stump speeches, the campaign, the incessant blah blah blah!

With all the hype of all the new voters and Baltimore County’s particularly long ballot leading to long lines, I figured I’d go check out my polling place at 10am and if it sucked, try again at 2.

I got there at 10, got a parking spot right next to the building and went to the gym when I should have gone to the cafeteria. I’d forgotten, for the third time, the most recent at the primaries, that there are two districts voting at Fullerton Elementary School and my butt belongs in the cafeteria.

The gym - 10 of the electronic booths and the cafeteria - 3.  My best guess is that those of living in 21236 inside of the beltway get Fullerton as home instead of making us drive all the way up to White Marsh where the center of our district is.

When I got there a little after 10, there were about 12 people in front of me, so I was out of there by 10:30.  Meanwhile I already have friends who waited more than an hour.  Yay for a semi-flexible work schedule.  I think I got really lucky to only have to spend about 15 minutes there because the lot was filling up as I was heading out.

I’ve got my sticker.  Now all I need to do is find a Krispy Kreme within 10 min of here for my free donut.  So sad, they closed the one up on Bel Air a few years ago and turned it into a TMobile….

Time to break out the heavy duty lotion.

I’m definitely not a winter sort of person.  We’ve not even changed the clocks yet and I’m already missing the sun.  Makes the days drag by, which is a little strange, given that they’re shorter.

I had to rummage in my stash of winter clothes to find a shirt to wear today.  I’ve not put away my shorts and short-sleeves yet.  I’m deluding myself into thinking we’ll have another warm day sometime soon.  It could happen, right?

I love a good, cold, but sunny, winter’s day.  I love the first few snowfalls.  So really, I like 3-5 days of the winter season.  The rest is just bleak, gray and cold.  I guess I’m just not a fan of the extremes.  I love the spring, love fall. . .summer and winter - they have their moments, but overall, not a fan.

It’s barely begun and I’m feeling ready to hibernate under the covers and start my prayers that the groundhog will deem it a short winter.

MJ is looking out for us though and bought us a heated mattress pad - with indivual controls.  I think she loves me.

Actually, it’s not all that important where it came from.  It just made me laugh.

“It gets sorts zen after awhile,” Butters said brightly. “Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar.”