Saving log - $2 tip box
Spending log - $8 lunch + $.60 apple + $70 laptop memory
Yeah, I know, blogging from work. Ay yi yi! I'm doing it only because the memory on my laptop completely gave up the ghost after I posted last night...maybe the memory did it in memory of the jumper. I bought 2 of my memory (has two slots) for $70.
Voted today. I got there at 7 am, and gutsy me, voted using an electronic ballot. I'm very lucky with electronic devices, and I was when I finally got on, but a word to the wise, if you see the person in front of you poring over the voters guide while you are waiting to vote electronically, do not hesitate but go back and get a paper ballot. Voter guides and electronic ballots DO NOT mix. Electronic balloting works best if you have your list and go boom, boom, boom.
But the 20 minute wait had its charms. It was, supposedly the last time we will have polls in King County. This, and then vote by mail like nearly every other county in Wa state. Of course they said that two years ago. We'll see. I like to go to the polls, it breaks up the routine.
The charm was people watching, especially the provisional ballot meltdown line. There's always someone crying, "it always happens every time, you miss me from the voter rolls, you hate me and my kind and..." I stopped listening after a bit. My advice to the crier is to vote more often than every four years. Every year in September & November there seems to be something to vote for. Do it often enough and you work bugs out - you get your voter card, you know your precinct, and best of all, you know all the usual suspects who work the polls.
Oh yeah, got my free coffee afterward.
from work
November 5th, 2008 at 12:35 am
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November 5th, 2008 at 07:11 pm 1225912267
November 5th, 2008 at 09:54 pm 1225922069
No free coffee or pastries. I did get the free coffee at Starbuck's. And I got it before I voted. I'll not be bribed to vote!!!
November 5th, 2008 at 10:41 pm 1225924861
My nephew (age 7) says Rock Obama
November 6th, 2008 at 03:13 am 1225941193
5% interesting candidate,
95% free coffee.
Put a shot of something in the coffee, and we are back at Tammany Hall, where voters got free whiskey for voting, early and often.