not urging anyone to vote...

because at this point, if you've been paying attention, you're tired unto death of this entire thing. And if you haven't been paying attention, well, nothing I say at this point is going to make a difference.

But I will give you some information you hopefully will never need:

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done.

And lo, I have voted.

As every election, my polling place feels miles removed from the political scrum -- the parking lot was full, but the lines were moving quickly, the volunteers were greeting people by name, and the topics of conversation were almost all social.


As one volunteer said, no challengers would dare come here. We'd give them a cookie and sit them in the corner with a shhhh! warning.

And yes, there were cookies. Allegedly for the kids-of-voters. I qualified. :-)

addendum: amusingly enough, when I went to the bank afterward, they gave me a lollypop. Do I have a 'give me sugar' sign on my forehead? I do? Cool!)


Now all we can do is sit back and wait.



(and while we wait, this bit of amusement from a friend: I'm off to vote. I'm wearing the T shirt that my daughter gave me. It has a picture of a crazy looking Gollum saying 'Bush is an agent of Sauron. We hates him.')

"Talent" in Realms of Fantasy

As the header says. I got my contract copies of Realms of Fantasy in the mail today, the December issue that has my short story "Talent" in it. And while I'm not crazy about the way they laid the story out (they cut spaces that were needed, to save, well, space), once again RoF has done me proud with the illustration.


The story is a good one -- one of those that comes to you, you stop what you're doing and go write it in one swell foop, and it sells to the first market you send it to. Of course, in this case that first market folded, and RoF swooped down to take it. So both the markets I sent it to took it.

Anyway. Go. Find a copy of the magazine. Read. Never look at that old guy in the corner of the pool hall the same way again...