20201106 - The Election

Ballots were cast on the third for the election, and it is still undecided on the sixth. Largely, there are five states that we are waiting on to determine the results: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona. I doubt that we'll know for certain today, either, since some of these states have automatic recount laws that may come into effect should the final count be very close. And then there's the suits. Yes, the sitting pres has sued any state that resulted in a electoral votes for the democrat candidate. I suspect that will take a while to sort out. I'm sure that the democrat candidate has also filed a number of suits as well, perhaps better founded.

I'm expecting business-as-usual out of the senate and house - stalemate, finger-point, equivocate, ambiguate, lather, rinse, repeat... I will be interested to see if new members have bettered or worsened the demographics of the two chambers. 

Meanwhile, COVID-19 cases are over 100,000 per day and deaths from that disease are over 1,000 per day in the US. Black Lives Matter continues in the news, as police seem to routinely shoot blacks. The US has officially backed out of the Paris accord. Tropical storm Eta, the 28th named storm of the Atlantic Hurricane season, is approaching Florida this weekend.

Not a banner week.

On a better note, my past illness has subsided. I still have pain in the right side, but the CT scan showed nothing abnormal. However, that visit to the doc has let the "Djin out of the bottle" 🧞‍♂️. I have a host of tests over the next two months for my new cardiologist 🙄.