23 days to go

This was the week that the vice-presidential debate was won by a fly and then everyone wrote columns about how nice and normal the debate was. 2021, send help.

Then again, this was the week that my voter's pamphlet showed up. (Well, pamphlets. For the larger elections, we get one from the state with the national and state-level races and measures, and one from our county with all the local city, county, and special-district stuff.) That usually happens a week or so before the actual ballot gets to me. It's coming! Soon!

We are now solidly into fall. The rain started in earnest yesterday. After a few days of heat in the morning and air conditioning in the evening, yesterday was also the first day that we just left the heat on.

I am full of useless energy about things I can't do yet. I'm taking a couple days off to fully attend SPIEL.digital, which has released the enormous list of games being demoed there, but I can't start planning until the actual schedule gets posted. No Pathfinder games this weekend because I'm running out of scenarios I haven't played yet. I'm all ready to suggest programming ideas to the virtual replacement for Smofcon that was announced almost three weeks ago, but since the announcement nothing more has happened.

And there's the voting thing. Luckily we are well-supplied with 24-hour dropboxes, so I won't have to wait long once I fill out my ballot.