Kevin's Hetero MFM Poly-Fi V

kdt26417 said:
Tomorrow, Snowbunny and I have an appointment to talk to TSA and get one year of express passage through airport security. Ugh, doesn't sound worth it to me, but Snowbunny really wants to do this and I don't want to be the stick in the mud. Maybe I can turn it into an opportunity to snag some Jägermeister, eh? Haha.
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If you're getting a known traveler number or global entry number, both of those last for five years. I don't think TSA has a program that lasts less than 5 years. I don't know if that makes the appointment seem more worth it, but I just thought I'd let you know.
 
Heh, five years is considerably better than one year.

I guess Snowbunny recently had a bad experience at airport security, they did everything but a body cavity search. So I can't blame her for wanting to avoid that in the future.
 
Well that job's done.

By far the biggest part of it was driving over to the place. The interview was very short and very easy. They had a little machine for taking fingerprints.

And yes, it's definitely good for five years. I asked Snowbunny again about it and she confirmed.
 
Also, on the way back, we dropped off my completed voting ballot. So that's another job done.

The main rule I followed in voting was voting for Democrats. When that wasn't possible (two Republicans or a non-partisan post), I voted for the female candidate if I had that choice. Otherwise I used the voter's guide and compared the candidates' statements.

I would have preferred that our first female President be Elizabeth Warren, but, I suppose when I think about it, it won't kill me to have Hillary Clinton take that spot. She certainly seems competent enough. And gods know she's a better choice than Donald Trump. I'm glad to see that Clinton is ahead in most of the polls, but I'm not ready to confidently say she will win. I hope she does; I voted for her; that's all I can do.

Even assuming Clinton does win, it smears our country's reputation to have had Trump come so close to winning. Like, what is the matter with us? What happened to the goodness of humanity?
 
I'm glad I'm not alone.

Of course I was disappointed that Bernie Sanders didn't get the nomination. But, maybe Clinton has a better chance of winning overall because she's more mainstream.

I think we need both a Democrat President and a mostly-Democrat Congress as well. Obama must have just about torn his hair out on more than occasion, having to fight the Republican Congress every step of the way. That's why I voted Democrat as much as possible, not just for the Presidential spot.

I suppose technically I should move to a swing state so that my vote will carry more weight. Florida seems to be the most swingy state. But who wants to put up with all the heat, humidity, and hurricanes? Colorado sounds more tempting, though it's a little more on the blue side (or was in 2012).
 
kdt26417 said:
I'm glad I'm not alone.

Of course I was disappointed that Bernie Sanders didn't get the nomination. But, maybe Clinton has a better chance of winning overall because she's more mainstream.

I think we need both a Democrat President and a mostly-Democrat Congress as well. Obama must have just about torn his hair out on more than occasion, having to fight the Republican Congress every step of the way. That's why I voted Democrat as much as possible, not just for the Presidential spot.

I suppose technically I should move to a swing state so that my vote will carry more weight. Florida seems to be the most swingy state. But who wants to put up with all the heat, humidity, and hurricanes? Colorado sounds more tempting, though it's a little more on the blue side (or was in 2012).
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RE Florida...and bugs. Good lord the bugs. Ugh.

Colorado is interesting. We have some districts that are pretty typically red. Mine, El Paso County and Colorado Springs, is. It's home to Focus on the Family, a bunch of nutty right wingy religious wackadoodles...and at least five active military installations. Everyone just expects and assumes this area to go red, always. But I am not sure about that this year.

Most of the folks I know here are libertarian more than anything. I know many who are voting for Johnson, and I do know some Trumpers here. Saw a few holding signs at an intersection not long ago, wondered if they were the same who hold the anti-abortion signs sometimes. Yuck.

However...Trump has pissed off a lot of people. And we also have a huge population boom in the last couple of years because of marijuana. I'd bet most of those who live for the MJ will vote blue. (EDIT: Or forget to vote.) And of course other parts of the state, notably Denver and Boulder, are blue as can be. So we'll see. It's going to be interesting.
 
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Utah is always a faithfully red state, but Trump is a sleazeball which will probably prompt most Utahns into voting for some third-party candidate (possibly Johnson/Weld but more likely extreme right-wing candidates like Castle/Bradley). This may be true of other red states with very strict moral standards. Trump is not a church man. That one fact may be the thing that costs him this election.
 
kdt26417 said:
Utah is always a faithfully red state, but Trump is a sleazeball which will probably prompt most Utahns into voting for some third-party candidate (possibly Johnson/Weld but more likely extreme right-wing candidates like Castle/Bradley). This may be true of other red states with very strict moral standards. Trump is not a church man. That one fact may be the thing that costs him this election.
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I heard that there was a candidate from Utah that was getting some attention there. Had to look it up. Evan McMullin. All I could think of is what a friend on social media called him, "Egg McMuffin."

So yeah. Egg McMuffin for president! lol
 
Yeah, I think McMullin is very popular in Utah this year. And if I remember right, he was printed on the Washington State ballot ... Go Washington.
 
I went to high school with that guy. But I'd never vote for him. :)
 
Heh ... it's a small world
 
Actually an Egg McMuffin sounds pretty good right now ... :(
 
I'm not very good at it but I try to be vegetarian sometimes ... and Snowbunny tries to help. She and Brother-Husband had leftover pulled pork in buns yesterday, but she made me veggie burgers instead. I liked it.

Just one detail in how much Brother-Husband and Snowbunny do for me.
 
I used to go all out for Halloween. As a teen, I gathered my friends together and we created a spook alley. This took place for several years.

Then I got old and lazy.
 
Waiting to see what the plan is for today. The three of us might be driving to Lacey, where Snowbunny will search for a simple costume for tomorrow.
 
kdt26417 said:
Waiting to see what the plan is for today. The three of us might be driving to Lacey, where Snowbunny will search for a simple costume for tomorrow.
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Holy crap dude. I used to live in Lacey! Talk about small world...

I lived in a townhome on Mullen Rd in 2008, then from 2009-2011 I lived in a badass beautiful rental house on Timberline Dr. I loved living there. I can still remember the vantage spots where you can see Mt. Rainier, if the weather clears. The western roundabout where Lacey & Pacific split is one. The Walmart parking lot is another.

I worked in Olympia then. *sigh* So much to love about that area. I definitely miss it sometimes. I do love Colorado, though.
 
Spork, you got it exactly right. Rainier is amazing to see, at any distance. It's a huge mountain. Not that Colorado doesn't have hundreds of mountains to see.
 
kdt26417 said:
Spork, you got it exactly right. Rainier is amazing to see, at any distance. It's a huge mountain. Not that Colorado doesn't have hundreds of mountains to see.
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We do, but they aren't as dramatic. Partly because none of them really stand alone like that, and partly because most of the vantage spots here are already at high altitude. Like Pikes Peak doesn't LOOK like a 14'er when you're already halfway up at like 6k feet or more, in Colorado Springs! But seeing Rainier from a distance, and from sea level more or less, like it's floating in the sky...it's really something... :) Also, the best Halloween weather I've ever had was one year there...mild temperatures and THICK fog, you just do not get that kind of fog in other places, let me tell you.
 
Yeah, Rainier does really stand out with its sudden height.
 
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