Grandma

I found out from my father this evening that my grandmother had trouble breathing and was taken from the nursing home to the hospital. They treated and released her, but when she went back to the nursing home she fell and hit her head and was taken back to the hospital. She's out again, but pretty much talking out of her mind, and dad doesn't seem to think she's going to live much longer. I plan to drive down and see them tomorrow, after I finish teaching physics at "Super Saturday." My uncle Ross is in town.

The election bullshit has reached a fevered pitch. Not just jackass versus douchebag, but all the local races. And since two of the three network television stations are actually based in Greenville, I get ads for South Carolina races too. As if anything that happens in South Carolina has the slightest significance anywhere else. I bet if the Union had just let South Carolina leave after they fired on Ft. Sumpter, nobody would have noticed and the whole Civil War thing wouldn't have happened.