Gray day

Patches of green showing on the weather radar, east of us and headed west.  This is still that stalled ocean storm south of Nova Scotia, been there for about a week and swinging bands of rain into Maine and New Hampshire.  I think that I shall defer my bike ride to tomorrow.

Civic virtue

Wife and I swung by the polling place on our afternoon stroll and cast ballots on the bond issues.  Umpteen millions of dollars to be applied to transportation and water-quality projects, I'd feel a lot better about the prospect if I had even the faintest wisp of a hope of a glimmer that the money would be spent wisely.  Too many past bond dollars ended up spent on deferred maintenance or paving over bad road bases...

Then there's the smoke-and-mirrors accounting where they claim that X dollars of state money will draw in two or three X dollars of federal matching funds, as if we don't pay the federal dollars out of our same wallets...

Well, we both washed our hands when we got home.