Interesting developments in the British parliamentary elections. The Tories have picked up a lot of seats (92 so far), and have a plurality of 291 seats to Labour’s 251 and the Liberal Democrats’ 52, with 621 of 650 seats declared as of this writing (the balance of seats have gone to minor parties like the Scottish National Party, Sinn Fein, the Green Party, etc.). 326 seats are required for a majority, so it’s looking like no party will have what it takes to put together a majority government. That’s what they call a “hung parliament,” and now somebody will need to wheel and deal and try to put together some sort of coalition. And that coalition promises to be be pretty fragile, so the next PM will have a pretty rough road ahead, I think.

Otherwise, it’s just nice that Friday’s finally here. It’s actually been a pretty quick week. Not as quick as they weeks will be starting May 17th, of course, ‘cuz my furlough is looking all but certain at this point in time. For me, a 20% pay cut is gonna be kinda sucky. For people with families who aren’t making much money and live paycheck to paycheck, well, I don’t know what they’ll do. I guess it’ll be time for people to decide between paying the mortgage or buying food. The people making the most money are, of course, unaffected by all this, as are our brave state legislators.

Since I’m salaried, I’m sure they’ll just expect me to work longer hours to make up for my extra unpaid day off. And I know all this makes me really motivated to get out there and be productive, so I’ll be happy to do it. Honest.

Speaking of which, time to get going, I guess.