Why So Many?

Why were there so many candidates in the recent Chicago election?  Was it a primary or what?  Cheboygan city elections are non-partisan, but I didn't think that Chicago's were.  We don't have run-offs in Michigan, if nobody gets a majority the guy with the plurality is the winner, but that's only in the primaries and the non-partisans.  I don't remember any partisan election where neither major party candidate got a majority.  Other than the city, the only non-partisans we have are the judges, but they're not really non-partisan.  Each judicial candidate is nominated by a party, but the party's names aren't listed on the ballot.  I don't know why, but that's the way it is.

I just read a couple articles on my news app about the Cohen testimony.  As one of them put it, "There was lots of smoke but no gun."  I still don't see what all the fuss is about.  It reminds me of when they tried to pin some kind of real estate scam on the Clintons, I think they called it "Whitewater Gate", or something like that.  I seem to remember that it went on for years, but nothing ever came of it.

We will be out of firewood within the next 24 hours and our winter is far from over.  Although this winter has been a little colder than average, it hasn't been a record breaker so far.  The problem is that I didn't put up enough wood for the season, time just got away from me.  Anything green that I cut now won't be dry enough to burn until next season.  I know where there is some dead stuff, but it's widely scattered about the property and hard to get at this time of year.  It would be a better use of my time to start working on next year's supply, but I'm way behind on that effort as well.  I don't know where the time goes anymore.  Damn Einstein!