can’t sleep

too busy watching election returns.
Good news: Claire McCaskill has taken a lead in the returns now that urbanized counties are contributing their totals.
Bad news: still 600ish precincts to report, and the margin is slim enough that the end result could go either way.
Good news: the overwhelming majority of those precincts are in St. Louis and [...]

And the good news flows

…like mucus from my nose a river.
(Yeah. Still battling mucus ‘n’ phlegm. A new weapon in my arsenal, though: honkin’ 600mg tablets of guaifenesin, which are breaking up the chest congestion. w00t.)
Yesterday I received two very nice pieces of news:

My employer, which can easily be described as “stodgy”, will be offering domestic [...]