Retreat

Seven Springs Room The management team at Al's company is having a retreat this weekend at Seven Springs, and spouses were invited, too – so here I am, with a morning to myself in this lovely room, while they have their meetings… Last night we got in around 6:00, and everyone met in one of the…

QotD: Trading Sides

Are you voting for the party that you're registered for? I wouldn't be if it were a year ago, but last December I switched my party registration just so I could vote for Barack Obama in the Spring primary. Not sure who changed more over the years, me or the Republicans, but I had mostly…

GOTV

I signed up to do some Get-Out-The-Vote volunteering today, which is the first time I've ever felt compelled to do such a thing. It wasn't quite what I expected, but enjoyable nonetheless. I reported for duty at 10:00 at the Beaver County Obama campaign HQ, which had moved to a larger location in the IBEW…

Table mess

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Getting ready for Tuesday

I went to Election training this evening, one of the 6 sessions we can choose from that Beaver County (PA) runs for its election officials (I'm the "Minority Inspector" in our precinct). This is now my 5th election (I think), so I'd heard most of the instructions before. But there were a couple new ones…

Countdown: 2.5 weeks

I went tanning today for the first time in my life – I'm sure it's bad for me and all, but I just really don't want to ruin my vacation by either getting fried the first day, or having to scuttle into the shade all the time. I'll just do it this once… I also…