Up early due to more scary dreams, working out voting strategy for city elections, mostly it involves voting against anyone named Higgins.

The mayor is loathsome enough, but a pro-DRM candidate for library trustee boggles the mind. From yesterday's paper, 'In addition, she says, she has a keen interest in implementing new intellectual property rights protections for authors, whose work can be pirated electronically with no protections in place and with little legal expertise available. "This will put Northampton on the map as a forward-thinking community," she says. "$200 billion is lost in piracy of intellectual works. The government is just beginning to look into it."' Down in flames, down in flames.

Rainy morning, another case of the sneezes.