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About gmcdavid

Retired IT professional with a wide range of interests. Married. Three sons, two with autistic-spectrum disorders and the third being transgender with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. From Chicago but now living in the Twin Cities metro, Minnesota. Episcopalian. Carleton College (BA 1972, physics) and Stanford University (MS 1974, Applied Physics; MS 1976 Statistics).

Election Day

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I voted about 7:20 AM, in the biggest crowd I have seen in our 8 years at that polling place.

My votes were consistent with what mdlbear has urged. Among the many posts I have read today expressing similar sentiments, he gets style points for choice of music and LJ pic.

It is hard for newspapers to say something original at this point. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer‘s headline was “Voter results will decide Bush’s potency”, to which OpinionJournal responded “An Anxious First Lady Holds Her Breath”.

Something different

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So…I spend the day being frustrated and depressed, about work and colgaffneyis. What do I have to look forward to in the evening–my Irish language class. And I feel guilty about that because I have not been studying hard enough.

So…I make myself go to class. Afterwards I feel cheered and energized. I actually was able to participate intelligently and enjoy it. The day seems much better now.

Until I found Gaeltacht Minnesota I never thought a foreign language class could do that.

Apheresis

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Just finished another apheresis (platelet donation) session at the Minneapolis Red Cross. It is nice to be able to lie back and doze off for a couple hours, knowing that it is actually doing some good for the world.

As part of the procedure they took my blood pressure. It was 122/74. A pleasant surprise. I expected much worse after all the recent stress at work.