

I made some video game themed Xmas ornaments out of air dry clay as a gift… they turned out fine, but I didn’t realize the paint I used on them didn’t do a good enough job sealing them up. They should have been resin-dipped. In places the paint cracked, moisture got in, and over a couple years expanded the paper-based clay through the cracks so they look super creepy now. Very disappointing.
Mistakes are a great way to learn, though.
I’d love to, but one of my senators is crackpot trumpy republican and won’t care (cus he won’t for sure) and the other is a dem who has always been vociferously opposed to all regressive stuff because she’s a lesbian. Whether or not she’s useful, ehh… she’s got a good and long-term track record for the state…
Frankly I’m too tired to keep playing these games when it quite clearly doesn’t matter. If we weren’t so heavily gerrymandered we’d have mostly blue state reps, but we got hit with the ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-ge-gerybomb! decades back and have no clear path to fair electoral maps so we stay solidly swingy.