Regularly hear that if we didn't have the electoral college, lower population states would just get ignored. But here we are a little over a month until the election and all the focus is on "battleground states."

Don't have anything planned today. but got a decent night's sleep so I'll probably get some stuff done anyway.

A stressful day, but a relaxing evening ahead. Glad for it.

At Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. Hope the U of I knows we'll be calling it Mercy no matter what they change the sign out front to say.

Iowa City is trending, but why? Mostly people trash talking about football. Don't know why I expected anything else.

Show up early to a medical appointment. Mostly out of habit, nothing looming over me healthwise.

Twitter keeps asking me if I want to be a digital creator. I feel like if I was meant to get paid for random thoughts and observations I make on here it would have happened already.

As October progresses, I really ought to pick up some hard cider.

All it takes is the weather dropping into the fifties to make me feel like having an afternoon Irish coffee.

A banh mi for lunch and now I find my mood vastly improved.

I feel like I could write an article or paper on how my family's method of making chili is the best, but that would mean starting an argument with the rest of the chili-making internet.

Homecoming Parade in Iowa City this Friday. All public transit will be moved several blocks south to the courthouse area and I can't help but feel this could be planned in a way that wouldn't inconvenience everyone relying on the bus service.

Leftover chili = chilidogs for lunch!

Large bruise or sprain= nothing, recovery not really an issue. Paper cut or hangnail = I will literally bonk that spot into everything until it heals.

Keeping with tradition, and having no idea how many trick-or-treaters we may actually get, we'll just get a bag or so of candy we like in case we have a lot of leftovers.

I can only hope this Halloween will pass without some white college kid ruining their career with the most racist costume possible but I still have low expectations.

All these guys doing no shave November and mine looks scruffy enough I just want to shave clean and start over.

Did the thing. On this sticker is Iowa's state bird, the Goldfinch. Be cool to the people working the polls, a lot of them are volunteers.

Mac n Cheese is trending, and I'm fine with this type of election day argument. Let's compare recipes!

Newton road construction project in iowa city, progressing in the dumbest and public transit disrupting way possible.