I made my trip to the grocery store a few blocks away. The feeling on the streets is very strange. It is not the same old Madison. There is a feeling of tenseness, almost scary, quite unlike anything I have felt before. People were already streaming towards the capitol with signs so I stopped one woman and asked what was up. The Senate had called a sudden meeting (which breaks the open meeting law doesn't it) and were going to vote on just the collective bargaining portion. They didn't need a quorum for that. Just the financial. I did my shopping and went on up to the capitol. Like lemmings to the sea crossed my mind. A floral offering was left on the statue of Forward and it looked like a cemetery ornament to me. Protestors were very organized. Word had spread quickly and as everyone was getting off work, they were all assembling at the capitol. They were not allowing anyone in the building. I saw someone being escorted and let out one of the locked doors. Lines of squads in one corner. Drums playing, horns playing, someone from the DOT was playing the Battle Hymn of the Republic on a trombone. Satellite dishes and news teams everywhere. Some guy was climbing up the side of the building. "Let me in my house" "Walker is a weasel, we are badgers" And now what sounds like every car in Wisconsin is circling the square honking. The noise is amazing. This is a terrible day in Wisconsin history. Suddenly, I am no longer middle class because there won't be one -- there is just the super rich and the serfs. I am a serf. I can't see anything good coming from this. November is a long ways away. This governor doesn't even try to cover up who he answers to -- he is as transparent as glass. An uprising is coming, I can feel it. How awful.