2019 - Day 77/288 - Monday...Caucus...

UGH! And then this happened. My car has some sort of magnet personality with it comes to flying debris on IH-35. Shortly after I bought it, some type of debris flew out of the back of a pick-up truck and slid across the front end of the car, up the windshield, and across the roof. The service center was able to buff that damage out and all was good. I have been the deflection point of any number of rocks hitting the car, and there are dents on the frunk hood and actually paint chips from rocks. This afternoon, another rock hit the windshield, and I have watched the crack grow from about three or four inches, to now my guesstimation is that the crack is about six or seven inches long. The insurance company says that generally, if the crack is smaller than a dollar bill, they can repair the crack (with some sort of filler I assume) and there will be no deductible. I am pushing that envelope right now, and we will see what the damage is when I take it to the window repair/replace place tomorrow afternoon after 4 P.M.

UGH.

Otherwise another lively day in central Texas. Spring break, traffic was reasonable, and all is good.

Caucus -- Noun. a closed meeting of a group of persons usually to select candidates or to decide on policy. "New Jersey's freshman congressman has been elected as co-chair of a bipartisan House caucus and will also serve on several financial subcommittees." David Danzis, New Jersey Herald, February 3, 2017

Did You Know? In February of 1763, John Adams reported that the Boston "caucus club," a group of politically active city elders, would meet in the garret of Tom Dawes to choose "Assessors, Collectors, Wardens, Fire Wards, and Representatives." He wrote that at the meetings, those present would "smoke tobacco till you [could not] see from one end of the garret to the other." A similarly opaque smoke screen seems to shroud the history of the word caucus. Linguists can see that it is clearly an Americanism; while evidence of earlier use exists, Adam's use is the first known to link the word to such a political meeting. Beyond that, details are uncertain, but some scholars think caucus may have developed from an Algonquin term for a group of elders, leaders, or advisers.