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  3. DeniseVelez

    since I was up in the middle of the night.

    The wind is howling here – only going up to 45 degrees.

    Searched the news for good news – did manage to find this from GA

    African-American share of early ballots up 13 percent over 2010

    Updated at 6 p.m.: All but final calculations have African-American voters in Georgia providing a larger share – more than 13 percent – of early ballots in this year’s general election than they did in 2010.

    At 33.1 percent of early votes cast, black balloters nearly match their turnout of 2012, when President Barack Obama was up for re-election. Black voters then cast 29.2 percent of early ballots.

    White voters, on the other hand, make up a smaller share of early 2014 votes – a 7.4 percent drop – than in 2010. Ballots cast by whites make up 62 percent of the total. They were 67 percent of the early voting electorate in 2010, and comprised 60.5 percent in 2012

    http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2…

    Happy Sunday Meese

  4. Diana in NoVa

    49 F. today. Dearly says he will light the first fire of the season in the woodstove.

    Trying to take the media version of the news with a grain of sodium chloride. Someone pointed out that a lot of polls don’t include people who use only cell phones. We are part of that group. We ditched the landline a couple of years ago and have felt happier ever since.

    Today must catch up on Christmas shopping (ordering things through catalogues), a visit to the nail salon, and making beef stew for dinner.

    Feel MUCH better about the Mac after the hour of tuition I received from the nice young man. He told me I could in fact still use Avery address labels, showed me the importance of opening new windows when dragging heavy files around, and above all, showed me how to use the “search” function that Apple, in its mad quest to be non-intuitive, has called “Spotlight.” As Pages also calls “Save as” “Export to,” and “Image” “Media,” no wonder I wasn’t able to find anything or do anything.

    Hope all Meese will have a good day and consume only good news!

  5. Portlaw

    Waiting for Tuesday.

    Am for my own voting, NY allows candidates to run on different political party ballots lines. So, one candidate can be endoresed by different parties and then he or she appears on the ballot several times, once for each party that endorses. Usually when a Democrat (please don’t hate me. Denise) is also supported by the Working Families Party, I vote on the WF line to show the Dems to move to the left. Cuomo, whom I do not like, is running on both the Dem and Working Families lines but also for a new party that he helped create called Womens Equality and I have been bombarded with mail from him telling me to vote under a party that supports women. The money spent on mailings is phenomenal. Think he wants to destroy or weaken Working Families . They did not support him in the primaries though they do now in the general election. But, though I don’t like him, will vote for him but under Working Families. Don’t hate me Denise and everyone else. I support, obviously women, but don’t believe that that is why Cuomo helped found the Womens Equality Party.

  6. anotherdemocrat

    I actually slept that extra hour. Even after taking a nap yesterday afternoon. Eating breakfast & watching Up. Looking for something long-sleeved to wear. It’s warmer than yesterday – 52, but that’s still chilly to me.

    Today: church then groceries. I think I’m going to have almond butter sandwiches for breakfast next week. My back is stiff – I guess from the extra time in bed, but I was tired.

  7. princesspat

    We’re taking care of grand puppy Maggie this weekend so I’m well snuggled. This small dog knows how to claim lots of bed for her very own!

    If my son can help me with the lifting I plan to really clean my sewing room today and donate another car load of fabric to Ragfinery. Now that I have a good place to take the fabric it’s much easier to part with it. It’s fun to feel creative again and see the space with a fresh perspective.  

  8. JanF

    Diverting Lava Flow May Be Possible, But Some Hawaiians Object

    “Our volcano has deeply held religious significance to lots of people, to the Hawaiian people,” [volcanologist John] Lockwood says. “Heck, to non-Hawaiian people that have lived here a long time. You know, I’ve been in Hawaii for 40 years, and one ends up with a great deal of respect for the volcano. ‘She’ – we refer to our volcano as ‘she,’ because we’re talking about Pele, the volcano goddess – she deserves respect.”

    At a public meeting held in September by Hawaii County Civil Defense and the U.S. Geological Survey, Pahoa residents spoke out against diversion.

    “You cannot change the direction. It’s Mother Nature. It’s like me telling you, ‘Move the moon because it’s too bright,’ ” one woman said.

    🙂

  9. bfitzinAR

    The year is definitely winding down.  Might make 6 KWHs today, didn’t yesterday.  If the oak actually loses its leaves before Candlemass I might see 6+ averages for the next few months.  If not, prob get 5s – I hope.  My stint on the Court is also winding down.  I’ve got a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 9 more meetings of one sort or another.  And of course the election season is winding down (except that seems to make some folks practically vibrate with tension).  For 2 more days folks will be exhorted to give or vote or both – then we shall see whether or not the majority does actually rule in most of the U.S.  {{{HUGS}}}

  10. JanF

    It is 41 degrees in Madison WI on its way up to 59. Mostly cloudy skies in the forecast with a chance for rain.

    Bad news for Republicans: tomorrow looks like a nice day across the entire state. I was reading an article in our paper about the state senate race and the majority leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) said that there was no way Democrats would take over because midterm elections were low turnout and “Republicans do better when the turnout is low”. Ponder that for a moment. Republicans are glad when fewer people vote because the majority of people despise their policies and would vote them out. THAT tells you everything you need to know about the GOP. They have no interest in democracy or the will of the people.

    Busy day here today. See all y’all later. And remember DON’T READ THE POLLS!!  

  12. DeniseVelez

    Waiting for one of the local Democratic phone bankers to drop off my call sheet at around 8AM.

    Will spend most of the day phone calling.

    Voting as soon as polls open tomorrow – then working on getting students to vote

  13. anotherdemocrat

    I think our high today will be in the upper 70s

    Monday. Blergh. I’m sure there are thoughts, somewhere. Earworm: California. Probably because I kept hitting repeat in the car on the way here. (morning commute = 3 songs, 1 reason I come in so early, yes the other is I’m up so why not)

    happy day before election day

  14. bfitzinAR

    tomorrow is supposed to be non-stop rain during the entire time the polls are open – not so good.  Just hoping all the Dems will have voted early and the “repressing” effect is on those poor misguided souls who dutifully march off and vote against themselves.  Sorry to sound R here but I’m getting damned tired of being the person trying to rescue the drowning swimmer and having to fight them to save both of us.  Cloud kitty tripped me this morning, so I’m bruised, achy, grumpy, and need to think up an errand so I can get away from my desk before I stiffen up.  sigh.  At least he didn’t mean it.  {{{HUGS}}}

  15. princesspat

    Well, the sewing room and the basement study are clean and my aching body is still telling me it was a big job! We moved the furniture away from the walls, vacuumed everything, including the closets and bookshelves, scrubbed the floors, spot cleaned the rugs, found and cleaned up mold (yuck!), dusted everything, sorted some stuff to be donated, and then put the rooms back together again.

    When I started the basement re-do project last spring my hope was this cleaning would happen when the rooms were painted but life interfered with my plans. So I’ll just enjoy having a clean space now and the rest will happen when it can.

    And if I need a hide away to recover from the election I’ve go it ready!

     

  16. JanF

    It is 58 degrees in Madison right now with the temperatures expected to drop to 50. Overnight rain has left the area and other than a few lingering showers on the eastern half of the state (clearing soon) it will be dry in Wisconsin.

    No excuse to not vote. No excuse to not take our state back from the special interests and elect a governor who cares about Wisconsin and wants to make life better for Wisconsinites. Mary Burke will have only one focus: Wisconsin.

    In places all over the country, this should be a crawl-over-broken-glass-to-vote election. People have now seen up close and personal the damage that can be done at the state level by governors and legislators elected by a minoritea of voters; voters energized by selfishness promoted as good. Let’s show them what happens when voters energized by caring about the sick and the poor and the homeless … and living wages for the working class … go to the polls.

    And PLEASE … don’t read the polling. The news is already pre-bemoaning “losses” that have not happened and castigating the various individuals and groups who led to those non-existent losses. Another piece of advice: stay away from reading the last minute gotcha stories that “foretell” doom for a candidate (ours or theirs). People’s minds are made up; talking again about how awful a person Joni Ernst is will only make you angry at Iowans, many of whom do not support her. Set it aside.  

    My plan today is to put positive thoughts out, to focus my mental energy on visualizing the outcomes that will make peoples’ lives better.

    Tonight I will probably watch Comedy Central for the national election returns while following the local races on official web sites.

    See all y’alls later!

  17. DeniseVelez

    No rain and it’s 61 here in the Catskills – so weather will not depress turnout.

    Polls here open at 6AM – hubby is going to drive me to our polling station in about 15 minutes from now – we will both vote, then he’ll drop me back home and continue his commute.

    So I’ll be back in a few.

  19. Diana in NoVa

    What weird temperature swings!

    Will be heading out to vote, accompanied by Miss Pink Cheeks and Baby Pink Cheeks. I’ll have to stay away from TV today to avoid getting depressed. Had to switch from the smirking “Republic” morning crew on ABC to the more subdued crew on CBS.

    It would be so lovely to think that tomorrow morning all these people would publicly have to wipe off the egg dripping down their faces.

    How anyone can vote for a member of the party that shut down the government and has done nothing but obstruct the business of the country boggles what’s left of my brain.

    Still, there’s the hope of better news–possibly–

  20. anotherdemocrat

    Hrmmm, I think the a/c is broken. There’s an odd, musty smell, it is definitely warm & the air feels wrong. Which is bad, this building has lots of historic documents. I hope those floors have separate hvac.

    Was awake at 4:30. Still managed to not leave the house early enough to walk before work.

    Eating almond butter sandwich, drinking tea. Earworm is Yahweh. May this election day be less bad than we fear.

  21. Portlaw

    escorting a handicapped person to another polling spot. Am not going to look at the news today. Just saw one headline and I thought how some in the media just love doomsday stories to which they can affix huge horrible headlines.

    Hoping for the best. Prepared to work to overturn the bad.

  22. bfitzinAR

    Last night was about as expected – bad.  The LieberDem wants to “save the taxpayer dollars” on County vehicles by costing more taxpayer dollars in payroll – a concept she still refused to understand by the end of the l-o-o-o-o-n-g meeting.  (What is it about “drive 15 minutes to site in County truck, clock in, check equipment, work on roads 6 hours, do maintenance on equipment, clock out drive 15 minutes home in County truck” v. “drive 1 hour to Road dept in personal vehicle, clock in, check out County truck, drive 45 minutes to site on the clock, check equipment, work on roads 4 hours, do maintenance on equipment, drive 45 minutes to Road dept on the clock, check in County truck, clock out, drive 1 hour home in personal vehicle” that is so hard to understand?)  She of course made the numbers sound worse by multiplying a “commute” distance from the homes to the Road Dept rather than home to job site by the fed mileage $.55/mile instead of the state mileage $.42/mile – but that still doesn’t equal what we’d lose in payroll costs paying the crews 1-1/2 hours per day to drive County trucks from the Road dept to the job site.  Sigh.  Oh well.  That was my next-to-last Public Works Committee meeting.  Almost done.

    Otherwise, trying not to think about the election but praying we don’t slide any further into fascism as a nation even if I’m afraid we’re going to here in AR.  {{{HUGS}}}

  23. princesspat

    I’ve read the polls, and even though I know the overall trajectory the R’s are on is a losing one I’m hoping it’s also shorter than predicted!

    I’ve go a busy day ahead if I pay attention to my list. I seem to get distracted easily though 🙂

  24. JanF

    Not much good about this morning but I am alive and my coffee pot works.

    It is 38 degrees in Madison with an expected high of 55. Mostly cloudy skies in the forecast.

    On the “better than expected” “about the same” “worse than expected” continuum, this election is definitely “worse than expected”.

    I guess the good news is that we already know what one party rule has done to Wisconsin and we can simply expect more of the same. One silver lining is that the Republican legislature will need to fix the hole they blew in the budget. They would never have helped Mary Burke fix it and she would have been sitting in the blame chair. I hope she runs again for statewide office. On the national front, it will be interesting to see how a Republican senate is run given that most of their new members are of the bat guano crazy sort. They will clearly expect a seat at the hog trough (and they better watch out for Ernst!).

    Now, time to get some work done. See all y’alls later!

  25. Diana in NoVa

    Hello, fellow Meese, I feel sick.

    Don’t want to go anywhere near Orange, don’t want to go near Facebook, didn’t even pick up the newspaper from the driveway this morning. Just don’t want to be anywhere near the gloating.

    Transvaginal Barbie is now the Congress creature for this district and DINO Mark Warner barely hung on to his Senate seat.

    I give up. Really. Going to Google the price of condos in Terra del Fuego.

  26. anotherdemocrat

    I kept my TV on the NASA channel this morning. I mean, yeah, I knew this was coming, but I just don’t want to hear it. They showed all these 5 minute interviews one astronaut was doing. I wonder how they keep that happy, neutral face on in the face of being asked the same questions over & over. And one of the interviewers was just unprepared…. it was pathetic & my face would have been all “dude”, but the astronaut kept it together.

    Even locally – my candidate for mayor didn’t make the runoff. Ok, the runoff is between 2 progressives, but still. One friend (not in my district) won outright. We have a whole bunch of runoffs. The one in my district is between 2 friends, I have a favorite, but it still won’t be fun. And the district I thought I was in, with the council member who does the AIDS Ride, he’s in 2nd going onto the runoff.

    As for all the other stuff, I’m playing U2’s California really, really loud in my head. I can’t hear anything else.

  28. bfitzinAR

    I have been watching the U.S. go step by step into fascisti darkness since slightly before I was old enough to vote.  We Dems have been stuck with doing damage control ever since Nixon – and just about the time we’ve got the damage under control and are getting ready to move forward, the Rs get back in control.  So apparently so down-graded our levels of OK-ness that where we are is good enough to call “damage control done, let’s get back to damaging” – step by step we go.  If ever there was anything to show the U.S. is not a “Christian nation” this election was it.  Am I upset?  Yes.  How can the country whose entire basis is success by working together (e pluribus unum), who worked and fought so hard against despotism in previous generations vote so consistently for “you’re on your own sucker” fascism?

    There are only 3 bright spots in this election are our County Judge, our Sheriff, and my replacement on the Quorum Court all won. {{{HUGS}}}

  31. JanF

    It is 41 degrees in Madison with an expected high of 43. Rain/snow/wind in the forecast.

    Yesterday was difficult but I resolved it by ignoring the news, other than a scan of the headlines in the morning, and a quick pass in the afternoon. I am glad I did not read any of it although the headlines were pretty funny. Apparently this mid-term has ushered in a “100 Year Majority” for a Republican Congress, giving Republicans a “mandate” (for what, I don’t know … they were already obstructing, are they planning on being obstructier?). The other one was “Obama has Lost 70 House Seats”. Of course, Republican math does not include the seats gained by his election in 2008 because it does not match their narrative. p.s. Only 33% of voters in exit polls claimed that their vote was “to express opposition to President Obama”. 19% said their vote was to express support and 45% said the president did not factor in. So when Republicans claim that the election was a repudiation of President Obama by the American people, they are really saying that it was a repudiation of President Obama by the Republican base. That is NOT breaking news.

    Off to work!! See all y’all later.  

  32. Diana in NoVa

    depressed. However, it’s raining, which is nice.

    I retained my sanity yesterday by ignoring the news. Plan to do that again today.

    Baby Pink Cheeks has a cold, poor little mite, so he was fussy yesterday afternoon. Hope he’s better today.

    Hope everyone in Moosylvania will have a good day!

  33. Portlaw

    Am still in the all-empires-fall-so it’s-our-turn stage. Am also infuriated by all the finger pointing I see. It’s like a witch hunt. My real sympathy goes out to Obama who has had to deal with so much and who now has a hard road ahead. He is a brilliant and decent man. He has my support. I am not a happy Moose. Sorry to be so grim. Will come back when I have found a better mood.  

  34. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast, drinking tea. It is still raining – very lightly, but water is water.

    I’m comforting myself with the Austin election results. Mayoral runoff between 2 progressives. 2 City Council runoffs between 2 progressives; the other 4 runoffs have at least 1 progressive (though 1 runoff has a wacko Alex Jones fan, so there’s that). A good friend is 1 of the 2 who won a seat outright & the other is our 1st Latina council member & a retired firefighter, so that’s cool.

    Oh – and it’s rained for 2 days. Lakes still at 30%, but at least they haven’t fallen further. And this is the 2nd day in a row I wore shoes that require socks — and I even had to wear a jacket this morning. Summer is officially gone.

    earworm: Rise Up, too drifty & dreamy for this hour, but there it is

  35. bfitzinAR

    Still grappling with the insanity of passing a minimum wage increase (by over 60%) while electing people who don’t believe there should be a minimum wage at all.  And a loudly self-proclaimed “Christian” nation electing people who already have and will again vote to “pass on the other side” as people are hurt, abused, and die.  And voting against “personhood” laws while electing the people who sponsor them.  I’ve watched the slow slide towards despotic “corporatism” (English translation of fascism per Mussolini) for many years but have been lucky enough – and yes, I know it was luck (or whatever variant of “there but for the grace of god” you prefer) – to have been minimally effected by it.  Now that Social Security is now longer “the 3rd rail” and we’ve elected people who wish to “privatize” it, I am starting to fear for my personal future.  But that’s nothing to what others are facing, so I’ll keep on keepin’ on in the hope that by trying to plug the holes those folks are drilling in the lifeboat for others more immediately endangered, my own issues will be taken care of as well.  (The witches of New Forest couldn’t stop the Nazi air war, but said Nazis never landed a single brigade on the British coast.  And Britain survived loss after loss until allies who’d been holding back finally stepped up.)  To all a good Friday Eve.  {{{HUGS}}}

  36. princesspat

    Between post election blues and a hard pool workout I seem to have just lost yesterday….couldn’t keep my eyes open. So I’d best tend to business today. I can tear up my long list, but a few things have to be done regardless.

  38. JanF

    32 degrees here in Madison with an expected high of 45. Mostly cloudy skies.

    Got up early because something beeped and it seems to have powered my brain up. 🙂

    I have started dipping my toes into the “what happened” opinion pieces regarding the midterms to see if I can find anything hopeful, something that we can use for the next congressional election cycle. I really thought that when people saw the awfulness that came out of the low turnout 2010 midterm that they would be motivated to not let that happen again. I was wrong. I fear that the McConnell Doctrine: “Obstruct progress to replace hope with cynicism” worked. People no longer think that their vote matters because even when they elect a president his agenda and their agenda is thwarted when Congress is run (or controlled, via filibuster) by a party that hates government.

    One thing I am sure of is that there will be no shortage of people telling the campaign strategists what they did wrong: running with Obama, running away from Obama, running on women’s issues, not running on women’s issues, running as a progressive, running as Republican-lite, running on social issues, running against social issues. The one thing that could have cut through all this was if we could have run on the economy. But thanks to the Republicans in the House, the recovery did not reach all Americans. Those who it did reach were never told of the progress that had been made because the captive media had no interest in promoting the successes of the Obama Administration.

    Economic concerns resonate in both urban and rural areas, witness the minimum wage increases in red states. But we can’t win unless we can cut through the lies and I am at a loss as to how we can do that. Even when peoples lives suck less, they are told that their lives suck more and that it is because of the man in the White House.  

    Off to work. Have a great day all y’alls.

  39. Diana in NoVa

    I’m still too bitter about Tuesday to watch any news, even the weather, or visit the Great Orange Satan. Still can’t read the newspaper because of all the gloating.

    Feel depressed because I live in an idiotocracy. To those who shrug and say, “We survived 8 years of Bush, we can survive this,” I would pose the question: Have you noticed that things have become steadily worse since Sandra Day O’Connor handed the election to Bush?

    Women’s rights have been rolled back to the point where contraception is endangered! Never thought I’d live to see this day.

    The weather has become more and more violent. The Koch-controlled Congress will never do anything about climate change. If Gore had been allowed to be president, we wouldn’t be in this parlous state (provided he had a Democratic Congress to back him up).

    Rethug-controlled governorships have gerrymandered districts so thoroughly that we’ll have Rethug governors and legislatures for the next 50 years.

    Sorry to be so gloomy. I’d better refrain from any more observations of this sort and concentrate on my personal life. Hope everyone will have a good day in spite of this Week from Hell!

  40. anotherdemocrat

    my friend has a diary up at Orange that got very little notice last night & yes, it’s Orange but I thought y’all would like her fighting spirit: A Little Solace in Texas

    And once again, I haven’t exercised since Saturday. Sigh.

    It must really be fall – 2nd day in a row of real shoes & a jacket. Earworm is still California. No other real thoughts. Wish I had enough energy to do a diary about the Children’s Shelter, having raised just $10 is getting kind of alarming.

  41. Portlaw

    Inhofe refuted climate change science in 2012 by citing the Bible. “[T]he Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night.’ My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

    http://www.newrepublic.com/art…

  42. DeniseVelez

    safely from the funeral – driving in pouring rain was hairy last evening.

    I’m wiped out – have to head to school and then will be back later to read all I’ve missed.

    BTW – there will be a nice surprise in BKos today for those who read it.

    Seeya later!  

  43. princesspat

    Yesterday was a windy day, blowing leaves around the neighborhood and some of the cobwebs out of my brain. It helps to share my post election blues with all of you, but I’m very sorry we are doing so.

  44. bfitzinAR

    priority registration in full swing – phone calls and students waiting as I got in.  Picking up the pieces and going forward with life – this, too, shall pass.  Have the good Friday and weekend.  {{{HUGS}}}

  45. JanF

    It is 40 degrees in Madison dropping to 39 for the daytime high. Partly cloudy skies in the forecast.

    We (the royal we) made it to the end of the week. I am feeling calmer about the outcome from the midterms after reading a few sensible commentaries. The nation did not repudiate Democrats or President Obama: most of the nation stayed home! It is like showing up for a basketball game with 3 players. The voters who did show up were angry and upset and when you vote, or do anything, in anger it is not going to turn out well. I am pretty sure that they will not be any more happy with the folks they elected than we will be.

    But there is some great news! President Obama is going to nominate U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to be the next Attorney General. One of the reasons I think this is great news is this part of her biography:

    She was born in Greensboro, N.C., in 1959, a year before black students there sat down at a whites-only lunch counter and helped catalyze protests around the country.

    In my opinion, the most important work of the Justice Department right now is protecting the rights of voters and addressing civil rights issues. It is important symbolically for a black American to be the face of justice in America. And even more so that she is from the south where a personal connection to the not-so-distant past will serve as a counter to Chief Justice Roberts claim, from his place as a rich white male, that this is a post-racial America.

    See all y’alls later!  

  46. Diana in NoVa

    In my opinion, the most important work of the Justice Department right now is protecting the rights of voters and addressing civil rights issues.

    To me, the most agonizing part of living in these times is watching the rollback of civil rights and women’s rights. The idea that our black and brown sisters and brothers are prevented from voting even after the 1964 Civil Rights Act is anathema.

    You know, as I’ve frequently remarked on Orange, it would greatly help if we had voting on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. No one would have an excuse not to vote then, as even the worst-treated workers usually get one day off a week. This business of voting on Tuesday is a holdover from the 18th century, utterly ridiculous in a country that prides itself on being innovative.

  47. Diana in NoVa

    Feeling slightly better because I’m concentrating on my own stuff rather than brooding and reading things that I know will upset me.

    Miss Pink Cheeks spent the night with us and for a wonder, fell asleep at 8 p.m.! After dinner I gave her a bath and then she and Grandpa rehearsed her script. Her parents have just picked her up to take her to acting class.

    Looks as if Gillespie has conceded to Warner–gad, never thought it would be that close! It’s great about Loretta Lynch, but will she require confirmation by the Rethugs? If so…well, I don’t need to say it.

    Hope everyone will have a good day! I’ve got shopping, laundry, and so forth, followed by dinner out with a friend. Tomorrow is the Formula I race, which we’ll watch, then I have to set about readying my manuscript for Kindle. Still haven’t found a desktop publisher so may go with a meatgrinder company.

  48. princesspat

    I had muddy fun in the garden yesterday. The spent summer flowers are gone, replaced with ferns and other winter plants. I trimmed salal and ivy, raked leaves, tucked vulnerable plants away under the hedge where they are protected for the winter wind, and just generally enjoyed being outdoors in the sunshine.

    It’s foggy outside today so it won’t be so difficult to stay indoors and pay bills and do the ever present laundry.

  49. anotherdemocrat

    wore 2 layers for my workout this morning, maybe overkill but have I mentioned that I hate being cold?

    I really have to stop skipping my mid week workouts, Saturday mornings are getting too hard. My mile split went up by a minute. So — no more skipping workouts.

    Watching Melissa Harris Perry. Gonna take a nap after.

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