I Was Not Pretending

I remember when there was some talk in the news about the gerrymandering, but I didn't pay a lot of attention to it because I thought it was just an urban problem Down Below.  There are lots of urban problems Down Below that have little effect on Northern Michigan unless you have family or friends there, which I don't except for that one guy I mentioned, and he lives in one of the nicer suburbs.  I only see this guy a few times a year and I don't remember talking a lot of politics with him, although I'm pretty sure he mostly votes Republican.

The reason I thought that our district was "too big to gerrymander" was that it is a really big district geographically.  It includes the entire Upper Peninsula and about 15 counties in the Northern Lower Peninsula.  It's mostly bounded by water, and the only direction it can expand or contract is southward.  I assumed that the next district to our south was Republican territory just like ours, so I didn't see what could be accomplished by fooling around with the border between them.  After looking at the maps that Uncle Ken posted, I could see what happened, but I never looked it up before because I had little interest in the issue.

Still no yeast to be found in Cheboygan.  Well, I haven't looked for it all over town, but my experience with the toilet paper shortage suggests that, if the three stores we usually frequent are out of something, chances are that all the others are out of it too.  I don't need to make bread until Monday and, if I don't find any yeast by then, I think I'll just survive on store bought bread for awhile.  Some things, although they are important, are not important enough to justify getting so upset that you make yourself miserable in the process.