2:30 pm:  Asheboro.  Great coffee shop, the “Downtown Soda Shop‎,” 128 Sunset Ave.  I order a diet coke, and the pimento cheese sandwich.  Say what you want, a GENyouwine grilled pimento cheese sandwich, with pickles, is the food of the good.  This was homemade pimento cheese.  We sat and checked email, talked to customers and the very nice waitstaff.  And then Matthew, a local Republican candidate for school board, recognized me and we had some MORE chat about local problems and local schools.

 4:30 pm:  Pittsboro.  By the time you get 20 miles west of Siler City, and then for a very long way, US 64 has gone all corporate and refined.  We resolve to take the local “alternate” 64 on Sunday.  We talk to some Obamaniacs at the Pittsboro courthouse roundabout, and they say they have gotten a couple of “you should be shot!” or “I’d rather shoot myself than vote for Obama,” but that most people are at least polite.  And I would say they are more than polite.  While I am talking to them, 20 cars pass, and at least 15 of them blow their horns and/or yell, “Yay!” or some such.

We hit the EV site, and the entire Pittsboro power structure is out there in its machine-like glory.  The mayor, two councilpersons, and several other folks, all Dems.  They jump on people who get out of cars like (friendly) vultures, giving them the information that they will need to vote correctly.  All part of the service.  I talk to three or four voters, who are (like elsewhere) surprised and pleased to see a Gov candidate in person.

Then we head to S & Ts Soda Shop, 85 Hillsboro St.  Meet up with an old student of mine, Joanne, and her husband Sam, a teacher.  They are big supporters, and we have a great talk.  Our waitress, Amanda, is so country and so sincere and so cute that you just want to move to Pittsboro so you can talk to her every day.  She’s 19, and the world is a better place with her in it.  You go, Amanda.

7:pm:  A barbecue dinner at the BBQ Lodge.  Another visit to Yumtown.  I have the catfish, since I had pork for lunch.  Then I made a speech, to the assembled faithful.  Thanks, folks, for coming out.  We had a good 20 people, there, ready to make things happen for the cause of Libery in NC and the US.  They have really done a lot of good work in this campaign, and my thank you is heartfelt.  I hope they know how special they are.

Then, home to sleep in my own little-used bed.  Still can’t shake this cold.  I’m coughing like a nut.  Very disturbing.