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wombat_socho) wrote2024-11-11 12:34 am
wombat_socho) wrote2024-11-11 12:34 am
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Finally the election is (almost) over
One more day with the balancing board on Tuesday, working 3-7 to get the last of the tardy mail-in ballots processed. If people had just come to the polls, we could have had all this wrapped up last week, but no, the (Democrat) idiots in the state legislature decided we had to have mail-in ballots, so we had a giant mess on our hands. As a result, Sam Brown got screwed out of a Senate seat just like Laxalt two years ago, because while the presidential margin was too big to rig, the Senate race was a lot closer, and Clark County was able to fuck with it. Things are even worse in Arizona, so we're not the only state suffering with this BS. I think the Feds under Trump are going to take a prolonged and painful look at how the elections were conducted in Clark & Washoe Counties, to say nothing of Arizona, but as far as Nye County goes, our noses are clean and we did everything by the book. I'd still be a lot happier if we used the same system Fairfax County did, with ballot marking & tabulation at the precinct level, but the NVGOP is going to have to retake the legislature first.
In the meantime, all the Alliance-Union books came in and I am almost done with them, being in the middle of Rimrunners. It turned out Merchanters Luck was available on Kindle after all, in a package with 40,000 In Gehenna, which I am not eager to reread and have no need to, really, since it's almost completely planetside and doesn't deal with the Hinder Stars at all. I posted something on Substack comparing David Drake's "The Bonding Authority" from Hammer's Slammers with Cherryh's description of the Hinder Stars losing their purpose after FTL made them obsolete as rest & refueling stops, and questioning why they didn't become new homes for dissidents or cultural preservationists from Earth. I suspect that if Cherryh was aware of the question, it would probably be answered by the Alliance not wanting any EC presence beyond Alpha Station, but...once the Alliance abandoned them the second time, unless the stations were destroyed (as it's implied in Rimrunners that Thule Station is after its second closing) what would there be to stop the EC from moving in?
Along with the books came the wire cube shelves that I ordered from Amazon, couple of letters from Social Security acknowledging that I was off Medicare and telling me they were going to extract overpayments from upcoming checks, a coffee mug from the Sam Brown campaign, and a surprise package of biltong from Rob, who is apparently almost at the point where he wants to pull out of Facebook. I'll have to stop in Beatty this next trip and get him some elk & buffalo and some other kind of rare jerky in return.
Anyway...tomorrow there's supposed to be a spaghetti dinner at the Elks on account of Veterans Day, thanks to the VFW, and I guess I'll probably go. It's free, but I think I'll throw a tenner in the pot anyway on general principles. Not like I can't afford it.
In the meantime, all the Alliance-Union books came in and I am almost done with them, being in the middle of Rimrunners. It turned out Merchanters Luck was available on Kindle after all, in a package with 40,000 In Gehenna, which I am not eager to reread and have no need to, really, since it's almost completely planetside and doesn't deal with the Hinder Stars at all. I posted something on Substack comparing David Drake's "The Bonding Authority" from Hammer's Slammers with Cherryh's description of the Hinder Stars losing their purpose after FTL made them obsolete as rest & refueling stops, and questioning why they didn't become new homes for dissidents or cultural preservationists from Earth. I suspect that if Cherryh was aware of the question, it would probably be answered by the Alliance not wanting any EC presence beyond Alpha Station, but...once the Alliance abandoned them the second time, unless the stations were destroyed (as it's implied in Rimrunners that Thule Station is after its second closing) what would there be to stop the EC from moving in?
Along with the books came the wire cube shelves that I ordered from Amazon, couple of letters from Social Security acknowledging that I was off Medicare and telling me they were going to extract overpayments from upcoming checks, a coffee mug from the Sam Brown campaign, and a surprise package of biltong from Rob, who is apparently almost at the point where he wants to pull out of Facebook. I'll have to stop in Beatty this next trip and get him some elk & buffalo and some other kind of rare jerky in return.
Anyway...tomorrow there's supposed to be a spaghetti dinner at the Elks on account of Veterans Day, thanks to the VFW, and I guess I'll probably go. It's free, but I think I'll throw a tenner in the pot anyway on general principles. Not like I can't afford it.