Mrs. P. and I took an extra hour for lunch today and voted. Colorado's got a pretty good system for voting. We got our ballots in the mail a couple of weeks ago, plus a whole lot of voting guides from various sources. We each spent some time filling them out this morning, much better than feeling rushed in a polling place, put them in their envelope, and signed them. We got on our bikes, rode down to the courthouse, and put them in the deposit box. There was a deposit box even closer to the house; but there is a really good Falafel place right across from the courthouse, so we went there and ate gyros salads in the sun and watched a steady stream of people drop off their votes. Some were also on bikes, others walking, some jumping out of a double parked car. Moments like this make me optimistic that I'll get to do the same thing two years from now. And I'm not talking the gyros. I stop by there all the time.