My cousin Glenda is a dynamo and she is directing the musical Hairspray at Danville Area Community College just across the state line in Illinois. I’ll be heading down on Thursday morning to Attica, where I will meet up with my cousin Susie and we’ll go over to the matinee that day. Then I’ll come home Friday morning.

Up to now, the college has done plays under Glenda’s guidance and this is the first musical. Musicals, I have learned, take way more time and preparation and money than do plays. And then there are the performances which last a couple of hours; it makes me think of cooking a holiday meal – all that work and then chomp, chomp, chomp and it’s over. Ironically, Glenda has also worked as a caterer.(She is so good that she was coaxed out of cooking-retirement by the promise of a LARGE donation to the musical’s budget to cater one gathering.)

Now I’m the kind of person who would want to bronze the food and the actors. I mean, think of people eating the Mona Lisa . . .

November 11 is Veteran’s Day; it’s the day WWI ended. Tomorrow, the twelfth, is my father’s birthday. His middle name is Pershing, after General John J. (Blackjack) Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces. I don’t know if he would have been given that middle name if he had been born a little earlier or later; actually, I’ve never thought about it. Frankly, I think it is a better middle name than the one his father had – Oscar. Then again, Byron Oscar had a brother named Guey – pronounced gooey. I thought that was funny when I was little, and I still chuckle at it, to tell the truth. I think it was Guey who died (drowned) in the Wabash River way back when; I know it was Roy who was sat on.

Yesterday I was alone with my thoughts in the early morning and, then, later in the evening. Both times I stared at the New Post page at blog administration and found my fingers still. The election’s over and it is very hard not to feel that, overall, “It’s over.”

And, just by clicking to a new paragraph, I am not going to be able to dismiss that feeling of mourning. However, there is nothing to be served by being a broken record . . . uh, a glitched-up mp3 player in today’s terms.

We have been moving furniture around here at the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse – not a lot, but giving the place a warmer, cozier atmosphere as the cold weather sets in. Ironically, it’s going to be 70 degrees and close to it tomorrow, but, hey, I’m pretty certain the overall trend is leaning toward “freeze your nose (or other body part) off.”

We have welcomed the days when the back vestibule can serve as a soda pop and bottled water cooler. Some of us, however, (that granddaughter) welcome the cool beverages but are wont to ask someone else to actually go out into the vestibule. Almost makes one want to shake up her Mountain Dew . . .

Der Bingle sent a picture of our friend E4, who is visiting at the Ohio Redoubt, as she watched the election results. Since Sprint stopped the PictureMail program, I have had to send the picture to my computer a different way.

It will be difficult, but . . .

This is the pre-voting part; it’s sensible to do it this way. After all the is the chronological order of the day. I don’t know what atmosphere I’ll find at the polling place; the last election for President, it was terse. People gave civil looks to each other, but that was about it. I anticipate today will be even more strained.

I’ll head over in the lull of mid-morning.

The AFTER part: They were carefully checking ID’s; I hope they are doing that everywhere. People didn’t say anything to each other. Oh, the poll  workers had McDonald’s brought in.

I awoke at 5am, or as it would have been a few days ago, SIX. Because those of us here at the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse have been opposed to Daylight Savings Time in Indiana, this is a bit . . . well, sort of treasonous to the cause.

However, I am the only one awake; no one knows I am up. Could this be like the tree falling in the forest thing? Perhaps I just need to turn off the light and fake it for another hour or so.

It’s probably because it’s Election Day. Tomorrow morning I may just feel like pulling the covers over my head, but I dearly hope not.

I started to think about scary things – mainly when my granddaughter came downstairs and scared me, appearing like an attacking hulk of a cave girl. But never mind that, vampires popped into my mind and I remembered a place where you get the Count Dracula Casket. Out of curiosity, I checked on the ABC Casket site again and I could find no reference to the Count Dracula Casket. I guess – now four plus years after I posted the information – if you have a dying vampire, you’re going to have to look someplace else.

I received an email from LZP, High Highness of the Gnome Guild (or would that be Guilt?); it included a picture of how he sees Old Kook.