I was optimistic, but wow! California hasn't closed yet, but I'm excited for it. What a relief. I mean, even having elections feels so big!

Getting up early is awful, but it's less awful when it's not dark, so hopefully I'll be a little less tired tomorrow?

It was nice. Let's do more three day weekends

My goal is to do something. Even knit one row! I need to do stuff! Because I like it and forget that I do.

Napping hobby achieved. This was the first real, fall asleep nap I've had in ages. Lately I've just been dozing...

I think I figured out why my backwards brain thought far was near and near was far. Far was on the top of the menu and near at the bottom. So it looked like far was nearer the car in front and words meant nothing apparently...

The Saturday puzzle was the hardest in a long time, but I did it without any lookups. I did check some weird sounding answers, but I didn't look any trivia up. Whew!

My new car is sixth months old and still doesn't feel like mine. Its first service helped and it feels a little more mine. It seems such a petty complaint because *gestures vaguely* but it's just weird.

I find it amusing that I think stick is easier because muscle memory is real. The number of times I've tried to leave work and was convinced the car was broken because it wouldn't go is comical. I park on the street at work. In my old car, I'd park in first. I'm still not used to having to move from park to drive, so I push the gas pedal and nothing.

Half the time it's a jerky start because it's easier to ease one pedal up and the other down than to push one smoothly down. Anyone watching probably thinks I have a manual and am bad at it. Fortunately that doesn't happen at lights.

It can stop yelling about obstacles any day now. Today the collision warning beep came in when I had my foot on the brake and was going 12 miles an hour stopping behind another car at a stop sign. I was about two car lengths behind it. So far, my foot has been in the brake every time it's gone off. At least I'm used to it now. The first time it happened I jumped and my foot came off the brake so I ended up stopping way closer to the car in front of me than I liked.

It's a nice enough car, but I honestly miss roll up windows. I'm weird...