Brief Personal Update, With Voting

[mabfan]

Life has been busy; Nomi and I have done a lot lately -- seen plays (Hamlet, The Tempest), seen a movie (The Prestige, last night) seen friends (cellio, for one), gone to synagogue (we're sponsoring kiddush this shabbat in honor of my father's yahrzeit) -- but I've been too busy with all those things to spend much time reporting on those selfsame things here. And I've been attempting NaNoWriMo, as you all know. I started with a major push on words but have since fallen back, so I have yet to break 10,000 words. I'm hoping maybe to make a major push again today.

And, as many others have noted, today is election day. As is our habit, Nomi and I went to our polling place before they opened this morning so we could exercise our franchise as early as possible. We ended up being voters #2 and #3. There's something nice about filling out a paper ballot and watching it get slurped by the scanning machine.

I've had so many things I've wanted to write about or comment on, but no time to do so. Ah well. There will be time hereafter.

Comments

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

If the poll worker is mocking you for using the privacy sleeve, you may wish to report him to the City Clerk's office.

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

Privacy folder?? I never knew there was such a thing! Nobody ever showed it to me when they switched to those new optical scanners. I'll have to ask about it next time!

I was a kid in Florida when they abandoned the mechanical voting machines with the curtain and the big red lever, in favor of that notorious punch-card system (you know, the one with the hanging chads...) I still remember the commercials they had explaining how to use them:

"Pick your ballot! Punch your candidate!"

Sometimes I wish I was still able to punch my candidate :-)