A Water, "Whoa, dude."

Just watch this.

There's Batusi Flyin' All Over the Place

For whatever reason (and, really, who needs a reason?), Ty Buttars got some artist pals together to do their rendition of the Batusi. Here's the original:

And here's one of the new ones, featuring the ever-lovin' blue-eyed ...

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This is a watercolor done by Evan (Doc) Shaner. Click here to see other stuff he's done.

I've Been Processed!

Well, Jefferson County has acknowledged my mail-in ballot, telling me it was received and processed on October 15. I can finally sleep at night.

And we just had a big rain and thunderstorm, which is pretty rare for this late into October (the thunder part).

Absenteeism at its Finest

Gotta love the absentee ballot. No, really, you gotta! Okay, well, I love it. My wife, step-daughter, and myself voted two days ago. I even got to wear the little "I Voted" sticker (nice touch voter people!).

Now don't get me wrong, without the absentee ballot I still would have voted, trundling on down to my polling place and casting my vote in person. But it's nice having this option. The last time I showed up in person was when my polling place switched to computerized voting four years ago (or so). Had to try it out. But my voting of choice has been the mail-in ballot, which I've used for many years now.

And now you can check online to see if they received it. Well, you can if you live in Jefferson County, Colorado. Shall we check? Okay, let's see, you click on this link right here: www.votejeffco.com. All right, now let's see. It's not really clear what you click on next. Ah, the big link at the top of the page that says: Look up my Voter Registration (woulda thought that meant your registration, not your ballot, but under it you'll see it says you can track your ballot).

Click (ain't this exciting?!).

Okay, enter my birthday (shhh, no telling) and my address number and click Search. Waiting a long time and ... hey, it's my voter information (though my name is not listed, which is probably a good thing). Shows that my voting status is Active and that I'm a Democrat (huh, who'da thought?) and ... that they have not received and processed my ballot yet. Ack.

Well, hang in there kids, we'll see what they have to say tomorrow (or maybe later today).

Stupid anti-climaxes.

John McPenguin

Uh, this is just too scary (if you want to cut to the punchline, just watch the second one):

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