So, I voted.

So, I went and voted. It was no problem at all. I picked up my ballot, whipped out my Palm with my cheat sheet on it, and proceeded to fill out the bubbles as I found them. To my annoyance, there were two things I chose not to vote on-- they were not in the voter's pamphlet, nor on the sample ballot I had reviewed a week before. They were minor judicial races I knew nothing about. Grrr....

I think my vote was pretty mixed: Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians in more or less equal measure. I didn't vote for Bush, Christine Gregoire, or Adam Smith, I'm afraid. I always vote Libertarian for the Lt. Governor since the Libs have promised to eliminate the office or at least the income. It's some absurd amount of money for the job of, basically, sitting around in case the Governor dies.

I've been sitting around all day, on call in case Omaha or one of the voters in her precinct needs a ride to the polls. It's been pretty boring, but unfortunately I haven't really felt up to writing very much. Sigh.

Maybe I should go downstairs and watch Ghost In the Shell: Innocence.

Bamboozlement by Sony

So, I called Sony this afternoon to get an RMA on the DVD drive. The first guy told me over and over that "Sony cannot honor the warranty of a product that was not used under Windows 2000 or Windows XP." I told him he was full of [censored] and that the DVD drive had run reliably for six months and seventy burns without flaw and if there was something wrong with the drive it was clearly a hardware problem. The spindle wasn't engaging fully and the drive was rattling.

He finally gave me to a 2nd-tier support guy who said, "That's clearly a hardware problem. You know it. I know it. Here's the RMA procedure."

But the first guy was clearly lying to me, and I was annoyed by that. But I got satisfaction out of the competent people, and that's all that matters. And they didn't keep on hold very long; I guess the election has lots of people distracted.