Weekend Update: 10/27/2008
Monday, October 27th, 2008We did a lot of stuff this weekend, but not much of anything. On Saturday, we got up and trimmed our trees back, and then went and early voted. One of the propositions was whether to allow the sale of alcohol for off-premises consumption. I believe we both voted ‘yes’ on that one. When we were leaving, we saw people holding signs telling us to vote ‘no.’
I wonder what the argument is against that. I have only lived in one place in my life where you could go buy wine/beer in the Wal-mart/Target in your weekly trip, and I must say it is so much nicer and more convenient. Having them far away, in my opinion, just makes the streets more dangerous because if someone runs out of beer (after they have already been drinking), they are going to go travel that much farther to the beer store. If there was one on the corner or at the gas station, they could theoretically walk (which they wouldn’t, but at least they aren’t on the road quite as long).
Oh well, it doesn’t really matter one way or the other to me. When I was the beers I just pick them up on my way home. Saturday evening I went over to Chief’s to help him celebrate. I’m not sure wha the was celebrating, but there we drank beer…so it must have been something.
Sunday we hosted a family dinner. Susan, Jesse, and Lance (from Kim’s work) came. It was quite a good time.
Monday was horrible though (and it’s only 10:24am on Monday). I got stuck in traffic. By the time I got to see the accident (1 hour after it occurred) there were still something like 6 or more cars piled up. I was sitting there for forever! They closed the road off behind us — and it took more than an hour for those of us that were unfortunate enough to not have an escape route to get through.