randomosity
Aug. 31st, 2005 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoan* Well, the person I voted for in yesterday's special election won. She still has to go up against the Republican candidate at the end of Sept (yesterday's election was the primary) but it looks pretty good for her since the dead guy they're replacing was a Democrat and the district is pretty heavily Dem. Not many Repubs turned out yesterday, but then, there was only one candidate in the Repub primary, so they probably figured why bother.
* The rain held off for the entire Sox game yesterday, which I'm sure made my mom and friend M very happy. And it was a GREAT game. Come-from-behind victory, last-minute bottom-of-the-ninth heroics, the works. I hope our game next week is as good.
* Yesterday I saw something kind of odd on the way home. There was a car parked at a bus stop and a woman in uniform standing there looking at the back of the car with notepad in hand. Okay, all normal so far; she's writing the car a ticket. But then I noticed that next to her, there was a man in uniform, also looking at the car, also holding a notepad. And then I noticed two more!
Best I can figure, they were meter maids in training, practicing writing parking tickets. (And as three of them were men and the woman was middle-aged, there really MUST be a better term than "meter maid.") (And it's not often that you get to write a sentence with three gerunds/participles in a row. Go me.)
* In other "things we see on the road" news, I forgot to mention that on Sunday when we were leaving the cottage we saw a family of four deer! Standing right there by the side of the road. The area around the cottage is fairly wooded, but there are also a lot of houses, and it's a loooonnnng time since I can remember seeing any deer around there -- let alone four at once! It was cool. Mom and I oohed and ahhed about it for miles. :)
more later....
* The rain held off for the entire Sox game yesterday, which I'm sure made my mom and friend M very happy. And it was a GREAT game. Come-from-behind victory, last-minute bottom-of-the-ninth heroics, the works. I hope our game next week is as good.
* Yesterday I saw something kind of odd on the way home. There was a car parked at a bus stop and a woman in uniform standing there looking at the back of the car with notepad in hand. Okay, all normal so far; she's writing the car a ticket. But then I noticed that next to her, there was a man in uniform, also looking at the car, also holding a notepad. And then I noticed two more!
Best I can figure, they were meter maids in training, practicing writing parking tickets. (And as three of them were men and the woman was middle-aged, there really MUST be a better term than "meter maid.") (And it's not often that you get to write a sentence with three gerunds/participles in a row. Go me.)
* In other "things we see on the road" news, I forgot to mention that on Sunday when we were leaving the cottage we saw a family of four deer! Standing right there by the side of the road. The area around the cottage is fairly wooded, but there are also a lot of houses, and it's a loooonnnng time since I can remember seeing any deer around there -- let alone four at once! It was cool. Mom and I oohed and ahhed about it for miles. :)
more later....
