I exercised  my  civic duty today. That is I got on my bicycle, with the bell and the speedometer, and rode down to the local polling station located in the neighbourhood Methodist church, locked  up my bike even though there was absolutely  nobody around  (you know,  because nobody votes), and put an  X  beside the candidate of my choice. I fear I  may be becoming one of those cliches you see depicted in almost every hollywood  movie. I should have come home and mixed up a wheatgrass smoothie in my solar powered food processor to finish the day.