Shorts

I'm amused by this article comparing Burning Man and Sukkot.

I'm in a crocheting phase again: a blue necklace with green beads Sunday, a black bracelet with silver jingle bells yesterday. Photos to come (hopefully by next week). I think I need to get more jingle bells, given the season.

Yesterday the artist I'd seen on the Longfellow Bridge was down on the pier on the Cambridge side, an umbrella shading him.

Also yesterday, I found a UPS package in the middle of the bridge onramp, looking like it had fallen off a truck. So I brought it to the post office, and after waiting in an interminable line, was told to bring it to UPS (yeah, I should've known). I did. I hope it got to wherever it was going... (possibly Hyde Park, or possibly it was being returned).

Eating food is better than eating nutrients. Nutrition isn't all about reductionist quantifiable science (not at our current level of knowledge, anyway). Confirmation of what I think is always nice. (Thanks to Hrafn for the link.)

Must vote tonight. Would also be good to get next year's parking sticker.

PS. Cambridge is also having an election for a "poet populist." (Not on the city ballot, however.)

Voted

A little after 5 P.M., and my ballots were 550 and 551 in the machine (which means that some odd number of people either didn't use one ballot, not voting in either the city council or the school committee race, or managed to feed both ballots into the machine together).

This is the first time I've been given stickers for voting. Makes me think of the blood donation stickers.

And this is the first time there weren't any people standing around with signs for their candidates at my polling place. There were people at at least one other polling place (city hall); I'm not sure whether the rainy day kept sign carriers in or what.