July 28, 2010 11:50 AM UTC

Driving 500 miles for a Bennet vote!

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• by: NeonNurse

I did! Yes I did indeed. I am so noble and committed and jazz like that, that I sacrificed most of my weekend and spent gas money and got a cramp in my leg and a bunch more stuff…because the fate of the world hinges on this election!!!

OK, I’m over-dramatizing. All the above is true…but I actually had a different motive for the drive. One of my brothers is moving and cleaning out his storage unit. He had a bunch of my mom’s stuff, and I went to get it so I could keep it here at my place for her.

It just so happened that because I was briefly in Denver, it was convenient for my truck-driving son to meet up with me there. I brought him his mail, which included his mail-in ballot. It’s now duly filled out (for Bennet) and mailed in, nice and official.

If you are saying, “So what?”, I don’t blame you. That was kind of my reaction to the exciting news flash about Romanoff selling his house.  The spin his group is attempting is a pretty good one…but the prosaic reasons underneath the dramatic top coat are just about as stirring as the reality of a four hour drive across the Eastern Plains and several hours of rooting around in a dusty storage unit. In Andrew’s case, he seems to have been planning to move anyway, and he’s only loaning the cash to his campaign. (Or so he hopes, I bet. Seems to me that could go wrong….)

Oh, wait, something actually a little exciting did happen. MrMike and I got to see some of the Solar Car Race entries on the next-to-last leg of their trip from Dallas to Boulder. Some amazing high schoolers there!