Twas the Night Before…

….Midterms,
and all through the state,
the GOP phone banks
were all working late

The robots were making
repetitive callz
To irritate folks and then
blame it on Walz

….

Well, that’s it. I’m exhausted. Maybe I can come up with a few more stanzas tomorrow, but for now that’s all I got.

Regular readers may have noticed a lack of posting here for a few days. I’ve been taking some time off… 6 days in a row; it’ll be the longest continuous time away from my job I’ve had all year. So far I’ve been frittering away my time staying up til 3am watching crappy old movies and studying Paint Shop Pro tutorials, and then sleeping til after 11am. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!

It’s been really really relaxing, actually. Today I finally did something productive for the first time since Friday: I brought my horrible 9 year old Ford Exploder to the local Quickylube and got a couple hundred bucks of scheduled maintenance and winterizing done, then met a VOF (Very Old Friend) in Uptown for lunch at the Lotus and a cup of pistachio gelato and an afternoon of bookstore crawling and pissing and moaning about our endlessly tedious twilight years. Heaven, I tell ya.

But that’s all over now. Enough of this mindless hedonism. For me tonight, the schedule is: off to bed at 10, with the alarm set for 4:45 am. I’ll be at my polling place well before 7, just in case there’s a line. (There will be; there always is.)

Then I’ll toss into the back of the ‘Sploder 6 bags of power bagels and 10# of honey crisp apples that I’m donating for the care and feeding of my fellow GOTV door-knockers, and I’ll be off to the Hopkins DFL office for an Election Day spent roaming the highways and byways of the 3rd CD.

There’s still time to hook up with your favorite campaign and help make a difference tomorrow. Go here for a listing of the metro Democratic Party campaign offices and volunteer opportunities.

See you on the street tomorrow.

Never give up; never surrender!