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I found out that our polling-place, the kids’ elementary school would be open at 7am, which allowed me to get there before work.  Sort of.  I showed up at 6:55am and go the last parking spot in the place.  I walked inside and was greeted with most people and longest line for any event I’ve ever seen there.  I have been to christmas pagents, and kindergarten graduations and halloween parties there.  But I’ve never seen so many people!  The line stretched out of the cafeteria, through the lobby and down a long hall of classrooms to the end of the building!  On one hand, I was very impressed.  On the other very disappointed.

In the end the line moved well and by 7:25am I was finished and on my way to work. 

I will be really interested to see how things play out tonight, but in truth I’m all election’ed out - I can’t stand any more political ads and get-out-the-vote efforts.  I’m fed up with it.  We live not far from one of the battleground states (New Hampshire) so we’ve been getting a LOT of advertisements but not a lot of phone calls. And this is good - I can always turn off the TV.  So tonight we plan on following the election results on the Comedy Channel - Jon Stewart always puts these things in the right perspective.

gObama!

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Friday night we had some friends stay over.  They brought their three kids and two dogs to visit as well.  Let me just say it was a BUSY house!!  Holy cow.  Seven kids, four grown-ups and four dogs.  Wow.  At times it felt like even more, but mostly it was very good.

When we went trick-or-treating on Friday we took all seven of the kids, plus a friend from across the street brought his 2.5 year old.  Really, I think everything worked out surprisingly well.  Nobody was injured.  Nobody’s feelings got hurt.  Everyone seemed to get along remarkably well.

The weather was perfect on Friday night and we all had a good time going to our favorite houses.  Afterwards we returned home and the six oldest kids sat down to haggle with each other for candy.  We followed that up with Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin Halloween special on TV.  Then it was bedtime for the kids!  Whew!

We spent the following morning visiting and recovering.

The rest of Saturday is kind of a blur.  I don’t even remember what we did.  Oh yeah, we went to a swim lesson for the kids and then to the scout store to get some boy scout uniform supplies for Gabriel and Benjamin.  Then I think I watched some football.

Sunday was somewhat more productive.  I cleaned up the backyard and mowed it for the last time of the season.  I put away all the lawn furniture and whatnot.  The mowing mulched up a lot of the leaves that had fallen.  We don’t get very many leaves in the yard anymore - since we lost, like five trees in one season.  “The night of the long axes”.

The boys each had a friend over with mixed results.  Ben and his friend, Finn, blew stuff up on the computer while Gabe’s buddy, Enzo clocked my six-year-old daughter in the skull with a swing by accident.  He isn’t careful and tends to hurt the other kids - I’m getting pissed off at him and he knows that he’s about to get ejected from our house.  I hope he improves.

I ran a couple of errands and watched some more football.  So overall it was a pretty good weekend.  Mostly, any weekend that doesn’t contain some kind of disaster counts as “good” in my book.  Maybe its time I raise the bar a little, though and start shooting for getting more done.

Well, for now I’m back at work.  I don’t think I have any emergencies this week.  yay.

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