irony much?

I have, in the past, remarked on the utility of allowing documents to be revised by completely random people in a 1000-person convention session submitting arbitrary amendments from the convention floor and of any document that might be produced by such a process, i.e., if you find some suitably soft paper to print it on, then there's a chance it'll turn out to be useful after all.

In other news, you may have been following -- though emmacrew tends to blog about this more than I do -- the ongoing story of a certain child of ours who, among other things, stubbornly remains unclear on certain concepts relating to #2 (he mastered #1 a while ago), notably

• actually getting it in the pot
• what to wipe with; the tendency being to use anything readily available in the immediate vicinity

The final piece of the puzzle would be how, sometime within the past 6 months, a copy of the 2006 King County Democratic Platform (all 20-some-odd pages of it) found its way into our bathroom ... and how, sometime today,...
... well
... let's just say that it indeed turned out to be useful after all.

Elected. Officials. Lounge

Preliminary results have been announced in this nail-biting electoral contest, and it looks like yours truly managed to squeeze out another,... um,... not-so-narrow electoral victory.

And congratulations to llachglin, proud resident of what is evidently Zombie Precinct -- let the record show that he appears to have gotten nearly twice as many votes as I did.

(Naturally, none of this has been officially certified yet, nor has it been officially determined that we both passed the 10% threshold. Then again the idea that, e.g., 200 additional people suddenly moved into my precinct in the last year without my noticing, and absolutely everybody showed up and chose to do a Democratic ballot and all left the PCO space blank, is well... rather decidedly into the realm of Monkeys Will Fly Out of My Butt...)