Creaking Tatters

Have a nice drive

At the entrance to the highway we have to get on every day to go to work, there's a nice little wreck from a recent accident.

Also, today I passed an interesting wreck that we've seen a few times, finally got around to taking a picture. I'm assuming the car drove off the highway and smashed into the overpass, rather than fell off it.

Next Door

The hotel next door is going up slowly. They still like to work in the middle of the night...

Voting quick, pharmacy slow

Just got an email from my Mom and that was the subject line. They voted in NY this morning. If the voting was slow and the pharmacy quick, I think my parent's wouldn't have known what to do.

From my Mom's email:

"When I asked the ladies at the desk at the poling place how long they were there, they had been there since about 5:45 (poles open here at 6:00 a.m. and close at 9:00, so as I say they also said they have to stay til about 10 to tally, whatever that involves! Long day!

So now here's hoping maybe, just maybe, the person gets in who will both allow the stem cell research which eventually will cure Alzheimer's and other diseases and also will hopefully get decent wages for those HHAs and other healthcare workers so they can have a living wage!

It's a beautiful day, weatherwise, though it may shower much later, but since it's so beautiful, I sure hope everyone will turn out and vote! When I left the polling place, I was almost in tears, just thrilled with the privilege of voting, in light of the fact that there are so many non-citizens here (including our renters) and that 9/11 didn't take away this right, which hopefully now we'll never take for granted!"

Kuwait Blackout

A faulty transformer triggered power blackouts across Kuwait yesterday. We lost power briefly at work, until the backup generator kicked in. Our housekeeper called me at work, the power had gone off before and all the microwave and oven lights and clocks were blinking, she didn't know what was going on and thought there was danger. "No danger," I told her.

One of the Kuwait blogs has a good entry on the political ramifications, or lack thereof, of the blackout.