Maybe I've always been here.

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Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Nov 03, 2015 4:46:16 pm PST #8416 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

No legal pot for Ohio. Boo.


-t - Nov 03, 2015 4:51:21 pm PST #8417 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

St Louis sounds fun!

Electronic voting doesn't have enough of a paper trail for many districts. How do you recount? How do you prove there wasn't a bunch of fraud? Also, all those times people voted for one candidate and got a confirmation of voting for another. Heard all about it when my parents were volunteering at polling places all the time.


Maria - Nov 03, 2015 5:02:23 pm PST #8418 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

Dana, profile addy good? I'll send you the addresses of both potential meeting locations. Looking on a map doesn't give me a sense of which way could possibly be more fucked because of traffic. I'd be leaving for the airport right after the meeting at 3 PM.


Kat - Nov 03, 2015 5:17:24 pm PST #8419 of 30003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

sara, would that mean you would stop working for your contractor?


Maria - Nov 03, 2015 5:29:14 pm PST #8420 of 30003
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

sara, would that mean you would stop working for your contractor?

If that is so, I will throw the damned going-away party myself! BFE corporation.


sarameg - Nov 03, 2015 5:43:37 pm PST #8421 of 30003

Yes. It's complicated. Not really sure how it is all shaking out.

I've got to think through this and figure out politics. My boss is panicked over my contract boss leaving us to retire and I'm pretty much next in line in her panic path. I've been ...difficult... this year, but everyone is screwed if I depart. So. I don't want to poison the well.


Burrell - Nov 03, 2015 5:53:20 pm PST #8422 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Ugh that's hard sarameg, but getting away from the awful is pretty dang appealing.

back to filling in little circles on paper ballots which are then scanned. I guess because that's less likely to be hacked?

I think so, yes, but I'm not a programmer. LA has stuck with the paper ballots with inked-in bubbles.

It turns out I am done giving a shit today. I hope there's no crap left lying around that I need to pick up before I go to bed.


-t - Nov 03, 2015 6:00:59 pm PST #8423 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hope all that shakes out to the good for you one way or another, sarameg


Ginger - Nov 03, 2015 6:03:10 pm PST #8424 of 30003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm not part of a city! Yay!

Mr Peabody thinks there's something alive in the office in addition to him and me. He is now destroying a box to get at whatever it is. I do not want him to be right.


Dana - Nov 03, 2015 6:07:48 pm PST #8425 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Man, fucking Houston voters.