The Slow Counting Continues

As I mentioned, I didn't get a good night's sleep last night. The product of not getting to bed until almost 2 AM watching the election count. I'm walking around like a zombie. And I also noticed my resting hear rate had shot up a full 2 pts which indicated a level of anxiety that hadn't been there in months. Could Trump really win again is what I am asking? I already relayed to the Universe that my preference was to experience an end to the Trump presidency NOW. TODAY. But I guess the tremendous surge of mail-in voting has complicated the counting process... as in it has made it much, MUCH slower than usual. It was almost manual the way they described it on all the cable networks. Painstakingly so. Still I did take comfort in that the lead that Trump had last night had shrunk considerably by this morning. He was still leading in Wisconsin and Michigan, but all indications were that the mail-in ballots seemed to be trending mostly Democrat. No surprise I shouldn't think. Trump told his followers to vote in person. Democrats told their constituents to vote by mail. No wonder it looked like Trump had a big lead at the end of the night last night. It was the "Red Mirage". Some states even legally didn't allow mail-in votes to start getting counted until the day after, which was today. It was almost like Trump planned it that way so it would look like he would have a big lead after the first night and then he would hold on or even do something to stop the vote count so he would declare himself the winner. Cheating scum. True enough when his lead started getting slimmer and the rate of decrease started getting larger, he started to tweet that the votes were appearing out of nowhere and that there was cheating going on. God couldn't someone shut that guy up? They were saying that there were still more than a million mail-in votes left to count spread over 6 battleground states. Could they possibly finish by tonight? The answer was a resounding NO! And so I tried to distract myself from the election distraction itself. Focused on Johnnie's classes. He had a leaf art project done in the style of Georges Seurat. That Johnnie is learning about the art of Georges Seurat is something that I am very, very pleased about. Makes him very well-rounded.  Last week he learned about Georgia O'Keefe. I didn't even know who Georgia O'Keefe was let alone her art.  Anyway we were supposed to drop off his "leaf project" at the school so we biked (I scootered) there. Only we couldn't find the box when we got there. And so we would have to come back tomorrow I guess. At least we got to do some biking. And Johnnie learned how to stand up on his bike to generate momentum pedaling while standing up. And just as soon as we got home it was already time to go to Panda Express Westwood to pick up dinner. Johnnie wolfed down his meal and went on to his Isla Nublar videos. I think he earned it today. I even made up more of the art puzzle I posted as a pic doing more of the same kind of stuff from last week. While he was occupied with his videos, I finally got a chance to peek in on the vote counts. I figured a winner hadn't been called yet. If it did it would be all over the cable networks. Instead what we got was the same "votes are still in the process of getting counted" that we got at the end of last night. This process is not going to go on until tomorrow is it? Apparently it appeared that by the end of tonight, it would. At least, the Trump leads had started to get in the range of getting flipped. And by the end of the evening, one such flip happened. Wisconsin is now in Biden's column and Trump's Michigan lead had started to decrease significantly too. So much so, it now looked like the momentum had shifted to Biden's side. I ended the evening knowing that the counting was going to go on until at least tomorrow.  But at least I'm not as anxious as last night (although my measured resting heart rate average for the day would tell me otherwise). I managed to get to sleep just as I crashed on the bed which was right around 9:30. I didn't really notice how tired I was all day today. I knew it the minute I got in bed. I was asleep almost immediately...