Dalt texted me. You know how it is.

My friend, researcher, and excellent science communicator @roxanneprichard.bsky.social actually has the science to explain to you why it shouldn't be the time teens are up and on their way to school!

And now we're raiding piggy banks and coin jars for shiny pennies, stockpiling according to the actuary tables so we can preserve one last tradition until we're all gone.

It's basically he Ghost of Christmases Yet to Come savings fund.

We've kept up the tradition of stockings having apples, oranges, pennies, but added candy, lip balms, flashlights, and other fun stuff.

We've lost all of that generation now. We're into the fourth Christmas without any of them, and it's tough when you lose your tradition-keepers.

So who is Johnson’s audience here? Is this for the base? For the members of his caucus who might be convinced not to retire? who is this man talking to? (Evergreen, honestly)

We had more outreach for this election than, literally, every other election we’ve been in Williamson for in 16ish years. Combined.

For Willco, that’s a surprisingly good number. For the campaign that’s probably not as good a number as they hoped for.

Cold and damp. Not atypical. It moved the line inside at the polling location we were at, but didn’t seem to depress numbers at all.

Regardless of what happens, the amount of work (read: cash, attention) the Republicans had to put in here should alarm them.

Longest line to vote in the last 20 years at one hour twelve minutes. Impossible to predict what that means for the results.

And that, your honor, is how Billy became Grand Admiral of his own navy.

“Playing” prince? Ma’am, I regret no. He’s not playing.

I am so, so sorry to hear it.

How I yelled! Congratulations and well deserved!

You go out that window with Andy Jackson’s knowledge and the ghost of Daniel Smith will scare him so bad he’ll run to Kentucky for a while.

“Carter, where do you find ideas for fiction?”

I dunno, mostly I just stay about five or ten paces behind Betsy and pick up anything she drops.“

I respect the commitment to the world building.

Sticklandia gets better holidays than I do.