Early voting in North Carolina

CNN published that early voting in NC was 200,000 on the first day, Thurs. Oct. 17. 

That's about as high as was the voting for Obama when the state actually went blue for the first time since Jimmy Carter. According to a Wikipedia.

Just to give everyone some high hopes.

Here I was standing close to the doors into the voting room to take this shot...I'd been in line about 25 minutes so far. It wasn't too bad because some of the time my lower half, below the waist, had been in the sun. By the time I got to this place I was totally in the shade, and it was a bit cool and I was glad of my jacket.

Here's one of the women (there were a couple of poor women deranged by the lies I guess) sitting at Trump electioneering sites. There were lots more (not deranged by lies) at the Harris/Walz area, including providing a handy Democrat sample ballot.

The woman sitting in the middle of the room in a purple sweater is an observer. Guess which party she's probably from. Well, I have no idea, but there was only one, so that makes me lean toward our predominant party of Democrats here in Black Mountain. But then the GOP is more interested in finding faults in voting.

My ballot was cast and entered the machine as number 999 for this Black Mountain early voting site. 

Must admit the internet connection with Spectrum has been iffy for the last few days...off for hours at a time. So I'm glad it's working again. I'd ask for credit for the time it was down from service completely, but I don't mind paying for the linemen who were out there reconnecting me to the internet. I guess I don't really know when it was returned to service since I was gone.

I'm having to push myself to eat the good food that I have. I just haven't much appetite for some reason. And I had to make a new hole in my belt for my new jeans...for which I rolled up the legs that were too long. Too much trouble to try to send them back with iffy delivery still from Amazon etc. The nearest Amazon warehouse wasn't damaged by the floods, according to some news or another. Plus the jeans will probably shrink with the first wash.

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Here's Open Culture showing the voting test from 1964 to keep Blacks from being eligible to vote in LA. Take the Near Impossible Literacy Test. You and I will fail!

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Here's a PBS clip that talks about climate change as being a topic for each of the presidential candidates:

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Today's quote:

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring. -Evelyn Beatrice Hall, biographer (1868-1956)

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The sobering photo of the area around me after Hurricane Helene