Early Voting

I did my civic duty and voted local today. This is the first time I've seen early voting at the grocery store in our relatively new "China Town Center", which is less than a mile from my house. They had the machines set up in the lobby of the MT Supermarket, along with the poor old gringo voting clerks who obviously have been a little overwhelmed by the cacophony of smells from the market. The MT has about 12 tanks of live seafood, and quite an assortment of dried herbs and fish and meat along with vegetables that really could be an aromatic assault to those that chose to interpret it as foul. Its really quite mild compared to some markets Chaz and I went to in Laos last year, so I kind of like indulging in a bit of reminiscing when I walk in there; the world is that much smaller.

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In the Place 3 race, where the incumbent has been a brat and changed her mind when expedient, I voted for the newcomer, for the change. The folksy slogans like 'hates traffic, loves queso' are charming, but she'd better be ready to have her ear bent on my neighborhood's zoning issues.