Vote

We are less than a month away from the 2024 Presidential Election where We The People will once again show that fascist piece of shit that we don’t want him around anymore.

I had two questions come to mind that always come to mind just before a big election. One, what is the status of my voter registration. Two, when does the early voting period start.

Massachusetts has handy online tools to answer both questions. First, how’s my registration looking? I went here and found that I am active and all is well, as it should be.

Next, I went here and found the following early voting information:

Early Voting Periods

In-person early voting takes place during a designated early voting period, set by state law.

For statewide elections, early voting periods include guaranteed weekend voting hours for every community.

November Election Early Voting Period: October 19 – November 1

Okay, that sounds good. Now that I knew the dates involved I went to my city’s website to get specifics and found this:

There you have it. If you, like me, live in Methuen, MA… you’re welcome.

Weird Day

I’m having a weird day. I don’t know what it is. I’m just out of sorts somehow.

Jen and I made a small donation to the Harris for President campaign. After we sent it, yesterday I got three emails and two texts from the campaign asking for money. Today in the last 30 minutes I’ve received two more emails. Come on, people. Leave me alone.

I don’t believe in omens. I don’t believe in signs from the universe or things like that. This morning when I pulled into the parking lot at work it started to rain. I mean, the instant I put the car in park the sky started falling. I was early so I figured I’d wait a few minutes to see if it slowed down. It didn’t. I said I don’t believe in omens… but if this is a sign of things to come for today… I’mma gonna be pissed.

Monday

Welcome to Monday morning, friends and neighbors and readers and only friends… that’s a bit of a mixed metaphore/movie reference there, huh?

I’m working in the office today and I am ready to go but it’s too early so I am writing a post. Is that a little too inside baseball? Is that a little too much of how the sausage is made?

I’m in a fuckin’ weird mood this morning. Sorry. The Bruins season starts tomorrow. It probably has something to do with today being weird.

Anyway. I need a new guitar project. I’ve got a couple of things that were put on pause that I should probably get back to. We’ll see.

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Finally

At long last, some good news for Boston Bruins fans. The team has finally signed their starting goalie, Jeremy Swayman. After a nasty arbitration experience last season, Swayman held out through training camp, missing the entire thing, before signing a new deal.

I am not sure how the team is going to handle the roster to start the season. The opening game is two nights from now. Has Swayman being training on his own? Will they send him to Providence to get himself up to speed, or will they just throw him into the fire on Tuesday and hope for the best? Who knows.

Here’s an article from NHL.com that might answer those questions but I am too lazy to read through it right now. All I know is that the deal is for eight years and 66 million dollars. Yikes!

Bring on the season, folks. It’s hockey time once again.

Failure

I drove to Hampton Beach this morning. I left way too early and got there half an hour before the sun came up. It was 45 degrees out. I froze my ass off.

It was also a waste of time.

The sky was perfectly clear all the way there. Just before I arrived I saw a band of clouds moving in… right at the horizon… completely blocking the sunrise. Damn it.

I was going to stop at a few other places on the way home but I was too annoyed by mother nature. I did finish a roll of film though, and I just placed an order with thedarkroom.com and I packaged it all up and it’s all ready to go. I just need to get to the post office. That probably won’t happen until Tuesday.

For now… here are some digital pics of the cool waves and the no sun. Sorry.

See what I mean about the clouds?

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The sun was up at this point.

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I had the entire Atlantic ocean to myself before this guy came along. There was probably room enough for both of us… probably.

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Mystery Meat

Those tacos I made for dinner looked like regular tacos. They were not. They were special.

The taco meat inside the taco? You thought it was ground beef. No, it was not ground beef.

It was bison.

Oh yeah, you read that right. I just made bison tacos for dinner.

Why yes, I am a bad ass (culinarily speaking).