Election Night By Design
As evening breaks here in Portland on Election Night, here’s a very short look at how things are going over here for me at the moment, on a day on which I stuck to the usual routine until lunchtime.
First, while I had some morning insomnia starting before six o’clock in the morning, I did eventually get back to sleep and overnight the intensity of the swollen glands, neck and shoulder aches, and Eustachian tube dysfunction reduced dramatically. Given the inevitable tensions of the day, this at least was a useful beginning.
After going out to read over a latte, wherein my attention faltered and I couldn’t concentrate on the book, and after a quick grocery errand, I walked to Kung Food for Chinese takeout for lunch and dinner so I didn’t have to deal with making anything.
Then I proceeded to put Kornacki Cam up on the TV, and spent the afternoon—and am continuing to spend the evening—reworking much of the design for the blog, which at this point if you’re interested had broken a noticeable part of dark mode, primarily because I’ve been changing so much of the design that I should have started the CSS over from scratch.
(I also should note that Weblog.LOL has broken a moderate number of things here on the blog, including tag pages (sources) and the fact that with the recent time change an unknown number of posts retroactively changed their dates of publication, which is completely fucking ridiculous but the site was my fasted route to getting the 2018-present archive back online, so it is what it is until I can’t get up and running somewhere else, which might or might not be Neato at this point.)
Once I pause to have more pea pod pork for dinner, I’ll be continuing to work on the blog’s CSS, and continue watching nothing except Kornacki Cam for election coverage, freeing me from any constant barrage of chattering heads that can’t actually tell us anything.
Addenda
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It’s the next morning, and despite my helpful
#TrumpCantHappenHeremockup of the Sinclair Lewis novel that dates to autumn of 2015, Mine Furor once again has happened here, with a very real possibility that the Republicans, having taken the Senate, also keep control of the House, and in just 75 days a fully fascist government is installed across all three branches of government, given the makeup of the Supreme Court.This morning I eschewed any news outlets in my RSS reader, just read what personal bloggers were saying, and then routed myself early in an attempt to spend the day hoping to stare down my chronic fatigue in order to make a polar bear’s birthday party at Oregon Zoo.
All I’ll really say elsewise is that if Phony Stark, per his mother, intends to use his “efficiency department” to push people who can’t work out of the federal budget, that’s the end of my SNAP, and the end of my Medicaid, and possibly the beginning of the end.