Wow! Internet!

AT&T had an outage today, and it just so happened to be in my area. How spectacular, right? When we called, we couldn't even get through. They just had a recording affirming that there was indeed an outage.

It literally lasted all day: no internet, home phone, or TV. Bubby even had to go to Starbucks to do his homework. I mean... are we even going to get an explanation, let alone an apology?? I understand when things go wrong, really. But we're talking at least 16 hours here. Starbucks just around the corner had an AT&T connection that was working perfectly fine.

Of course, half of me expects it to be the result of the construction. They bust our water lines, take out our electricity, cut down our trees, destroy our grass, and have messed with our internet connection on one previous occasion. Not to mention what they've done to traffic around here.

I was supposed to post my write up on the Texas Ballot this morning... and now it's not even Thursday anymore! *pouts*

Five Things About Tony Stark (that Pepper...) - I. Sight

Title: Five Things About Tony Stark (that Pepper…) - I. Sight (2/6)
Author: patriot_jackie
Rating & Genre: PG Fluff
Pairing: Tony/Pepper – Spoilers for Iron Man 1&2
Summary: The human mind reaches out to experience life through five separate senses. It’s little wonder then that Pepper Potts is so attuned to the many stimuli of her tantalizing employer.
Word Count: 1,560/2721 Current Words
AN: So you know that place between consciousness and sleep? That’s where Present-Time Pepper will be for the next 5 chapters…

Prologue

( She had to admit he was easy on the eyes, and that probably really was the explanation for it all. )

The Texas Ballot

I finished this two days ago: it's partially for my Texan friends, but mainly myself to have a central place to look over everything. Don't you hate it when Election Day arrives, and you see the ballot thinking you're so informed only to find out that you don't know who half of the people are, let alone what the races were about? You even may not have known everyone who was campaigning for a particular office. Well, I'm not waiting until a few hours before voting this year to find out!

There won't be any Districts - House or State Representatives - included here, or any Judicial positions, but the other major statewide positions are included below. (Most of the local ones have no opposition, anyway...) I have linked to their websites and included some brief commentary...

That said, I have been keeping track of a couple of Texas H.R. races Here -including the hottest one (TX-17)- and some of the other members of that comm have included other states, as well. Your race or a race you're curious about may be there or in the post preceding it, and I'm open to any requests to pick up a race for research. (I'm on staycation! I don't mind not having to play video games all day to entertain myself...)

Races Included: Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | Comptroller | Commissioner of the General Land Office | Commissioner of Agriculture | Railroad Commissioner

( Dude! There's an anarchist running?! And will I vote for a Democrat? )

The most irritating thing about these state elections is that candidates commonly state what they promise to do, but never explain how they'll do it. Believe me, I looked; I wanted details, and there are next to none. To that extent, it makes these elections, I think far more than the national elections, about the Party System more than what the candidates themselves believe or say.

Interesting about the Libertarian candidates, by the way. Aren't they always the ones harping on those of us who usually vote republican or democrat that we just rely on the "R's" and "D's" next to names? Yet TWO of them in these races didn't even supply a solitary shred of information about themselves for voters to read about their stances. Seems like relying on "LIB's" next to names to me... Even the Green Party candidates had a central website up!