Pea Soup

[susandennis]

The fog is really thick here this morning and it does not seem to be thinning. Driving to the pool in the dark and fog was a little stressful. As I sit here now, I can see the building directly across the street but not the stadium which is down a little further. It's spooky.

Next to me here on the couch is a little kitty pile. Biggie is making little breathing noises that are so adorable. His hair is growing back in nicely.



I want to get into Flickr and organize a nice album of kitty pix. I need to make a sub album of Kitty Puddles On The Green Blanket On The Purple Couch.

Yesterday, November 4, was the day I got married. I can never remember the year. I think it was 1980 and I know I have it written down somewhere. Actually, somewhere in this journal. But, what ever. My husband was a newspaper reporter and invariably was covering elections on our anniversary. I think we only managed two and separated right after the second one so not a biggie.

I think the majority of people in the United States still go to a polling location to vote. I haven't done that in years. A couple of decades ago, we were offered the chance to sign up for voting by mail and I jumped on it. Then a few years ago, they turned all voting in Washington State to vote by mail. I cannot imagine the inconvenience of having to go somewhere. Last year they even removed the requirement to add a stamp. Just mark your ballot and drop it in a mailbox and Bob's your Uncle (unless you voted for someone else to be your uncle).

Yesterday I got all the Mariner t-shirts cut up and the bits squared off. I think today, I'm going start putting them together.

Oh! now I can see the stadium but not the road beyond it. Progress.

Comments

[ollie.livejournal.com]

What a cosy kitty pile you've got there! :)

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I feel the opposite way. My mail person is always losing my mail or dumping my neighbors' mail on the floor in the hall or the courtyard instead of putting it in the mailboxes or leaving lots of mailboxes unlocked or reading the numbers wrong. Honestly, if you can't tell a 3 from a 4 go watch Sesame Street. I wonder how many times my vote has been lost? I used to go to a polling place but in the past several years the voting demographic for my district has changed because the percentage of kids and immigrants who haven't been naturalized yet (so, people who can't vote) has gone way up. That being said, I really respect the fact that pretty much every immigrant I ever met took voting very seriously.

[susandennis]

We can see online if our ballot was received/counted so I think that makes a difference in the level of comfort with mailed ballots.

[kayre]

Just a few years ago, in Vermont, I not only voted in person, but voted on multiple paper ballots-- separate ones for federal, state and local, each dropped into its own color coded boxes. Propositions were also separate; once there were 5 boxes. Blue paper in the blue box, etc.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I also go to the polling place -- which is half a block from home, so why not. Cambridge (MA) likewise provides separate ballots for City Council and School Committee, which is pretty much all we do in odd years.

[markmc03.livejournal.com]

I married in 1981. At least the people invited enjoyed the party. Took me seven years to completely disengage. Sunk costs.

Glad to see your fur sharks getting along so famously.

I'm shocked by how many states use those electronic voting machines which don't even offer a paper trail. In Canada, we have always only used paper. And having been a poll worker on a couple of elections, I know the stringent measures implemented to make sure you cannot have "funny business". But it seems that, in the States, Republicans don't mind faulty systems when they can be exploited to produce results they prefer. It makes you wonder just how serious they are about democracy. They like the idea of it, just not the reality.

[howeird]

My friends up in Aberdeen, WA say if you don't trust the USPS, there are ballot drop boxes.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I've been voting by post for a long time now, we've never had to pay postage over here