19:28 CDT
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The morning commute was awful at 93 minutes. I still haven't heard 
back on my remote working request. Apparently, it has to travel up the 
chain to one of the Vice Chancellors of the College. That will take a 
little time. That is, providing that I don't get shot out of the 
saddle at the first approval hurdle.

I received my mail-in ballot for the November midterms today. After 
much consideration, I'm just going to take advantage of our state's 
early voting, and vote in person. I'll just need to take the ballot 
with me, and present it to election staff in order that they can 
cancel it. I'm not leaving anything to chance. I never thought I would 
say this, but I don't trust the US Postal Service to do the right 
thing. To quote Jennifer Welch of the "I've Had It" podcast, we need 
to make this election turnout too big to rig.