Today I was reminded....

..that no matter how comfortable a given pair of shoes is, when one wears them for 18 hours they are likely to hurt one's feet.

I left the house at 5:45am to go work an election and didn't get home until 11:30pm. We came nowhere near to running out of any ballot, even though we had a 45% turnout. (It was probably somewhat higher than that, actually, as the clerk figures that 10% of the registered voters don't actually live in the precinct anymore.)