Silver lining??

Feeling Grumpy

So how are you supposed to see the silver lining, when the ENTIRE SKY IS OVERCAST, GREY, AND UNIFORMILY SHITTY?! (Please notice the extended metaphor.)

Heh heh, not to worry. I have found one bit of news that is moderately good. A few townships/cities around us had proposals to aquire new parkland and/or nature areas and/or trails, and a couple passed. Commerce Twp voted to preserve open land; Milford approved a trail connecting to Kensington Metropark; West Bloomfield passed pedestrian and bike safety paths; Eminem's current place of residence, Oakland Twp (and where I worked earlier this summer) rejected bike and pedestrian paths; and Orion Twp rejected a parks millage.

There was a totally unrelated article about "urban spelunking" - exploring abandoned buildings - that was a nice diversion. Heather, I know you'll appreciate it. And from there I found a link to the now long-gone Northville Tunnels, the dark underbelly of Northville's innocent suburban fascade.

I had woken up early - did I REALLY expect things to be finalized today? did i learn NOTHING at the last election?? - to check in on the race, saw the spiel about Ohio, and went back to sleep. I had a dream that the way they were counting provisional ballots and absentee ballots was that people put their ballots on stuffed animals, and then they sent these stuffed animals down a conveyor belt. People would take off the votes and count them, put the stuffed animals back on the belt, and then children would be waiting at the end of the line to bring the toys home.

Shows how much faith I have in this whole "uncounted" votes thing, no?