Early voting in Texas

I love getting to vote early here in Texas. I enjoy the activity of going to the polls, so voting absentee with my travel schedule never held much appeal. It is a great feeling to 'punch your ticket' (we have those Florida style things here) and get your 'I Voted' sticker - mine's on the truck window for all to see!. I tried to vote twice yesterday - well I only voted once - the lines in Dripping Springs were so long yesterday (2 hours at 11:15am), that I ran some errands, then voted around 3:00pm when the lines were down to an hour. Patricia was a poll worker and said they have nearly 1000 people vote in the 5 hours the polls were open. Someone told her that Tuesday was about the same - only one more day to vote early here, this coming Tuesday. Patricia will hold off until Election day to vote at our local precinct, we're trying to keep it as a distinct precinct so it needs as many voters as possible. The interest, even in a safe Bush state, is incredible. While I'm travelling I get to see a lot of ads that never come to Texas. I can't imagine what would happen if Texas was ever in play!