I have made 42 GOTV calls so far. 25 to Ohio residents, the rest to Obama supporters in MN. The Obama web site makes it crazy easy to set yourself up to make these calls and gives you a good script with information about the person's polling place if they have it. So I'm lying in bed in my jammies making calls for change! (I'd finish off a cool 50, but my phone appears to have needed a break.)
Back from voting! There were 85 people in line at my polling place when the polls opened. I was voter #6, though I was not #6 in line. Perhaps because I'd looked up my sample ballot a couple of days before and have been memorizing who to vote for and where they are on the ballot ever since. It was all there, just as I remembered.
When I left, the line wasn't any shorter, but some of that may be due to the polling place being fairly cramped for space. People were in good spirits, though, and the sun was just coming up.
Polls open in about an hour here in MN. I'm going to get into some real clothes and head over to my polling place. With any luck, I'll return and get in a nap before I start calling folks to GOTV!
I think lack of sleep made me unclear: I mean to say, they will be having me make calls from my home. They give me a script and the numbers and off I go! Time to make those free-long-distance cell phone minutes useful!
You know ... all us insomniacs and early-morning voters might want to swing by my.barackobama.com and join up for phone banking from home! I dropped in looking for a place that I could go and volunteer to phone bank this afternoon, and very easily found that not only can I phone bank right in my own state, but they'll even direct me to phone banking in places like Ohio, Florida, Virginia or Missouri!
Sign up now and start calling right after you vote!
Welcome, Audrey!
I should be long asleep, but the excitement of voting in the morning is keeping me awake. I'll just have a little wine, I think, that'll help take the edge off....
Man, I think I'm going to be up until I can vote at 7 AM, Central Time. It's going to be a long day and, I hope, an exciting one!
Will @ #5: It is preferable for links to act as they are intended to, that is, that they redirect the browser to a new site rather than opening up a new window (which is what target="blank" is intended to do). That you have your browser set to have all such links open in a new tab is your preference, you can also exercise your preference by right-clicking (in your OS). This is preferable to having everyone re-write their links to match your preference.
I'm hoping there's more to report re: Syria attack than these early stories. Some justification. Sounds bad right now.
I was born in 1967 and have a memory of the moon landing and Neil Armstrong stepping on to the surface. I don't know if this is, as my memory goes, that I was sat in front of the TV by my parents so that I could see it or if this is a manufactured memory from having seen later landings and lots of footage of the first.
Please place me on the guest list because a) it'll be cool to be on the list! and b) I might need an alibi for later.
I'm somewhat surprised that commenters here don't mention Mirrormask among alternatives. Or did it not receive wide enough release?
For that matter, I think we'd be able to come up with a better list of good F/SF movies and television without even going back 25 years. How about 5 years?
"And what kind of name is �Charles Conrad Castagna�, hmmmm?"
Once again, we see that conservatism is the philosphy of self-hatred.
Oh my. I am a bit flustered. A friend of mine just passed on a link to Red Hot Library Smut. Not what you think; its a blog post about a book with stunningly lovely photos of libraries. Book lovers must, simply must, have a gander. You know you want to.
Whee! Hope your power stays on and that all and sundry are safe.
I can't imagine what I'd do if they banned prednisone or any of the other myriad of drugs that my sweetie, Ericka, needs to survive, much less function at some sort of reasonable level. Drugs have side-effects, some of them worse than the ailment they are treating, but for so many people there just aren't other choices. Do I take my drugs and suffer these side-effects (or risk that potentiality) or do I lay down quietly and die?
My sincere sympathies and if there are resources that I can draw on to help, let me know. (I am thinking, specifically, that if an individual can import X amount of this drug from other sources that I and many other individuals would be willing to multiply that X and convey the supply to you. Also, I have contacts in India if that turns out to be a source for acquiring the medication. Fandom: drug trafficing for all the right reasons.)
"delmoi" has zir order a bit off. It was torture, then kidnapping, then domestic wiretapping followed by slavery. Cannibalism is in queue for next month (sweeps, don'tchaknow).
To the actions Jim recommends I'll add: donate to Amnesty International. (And review other actions you can take that Amnesty recommends.)
Speaking of dairy-free cocoa: I favor rice milk for my morning Cheerios (and other cereals, but I don't eat those very often) due to its nutty flavor. Does anyone know if it would also make good cocoa? I limit my dairy intake for reasons of taste more than tolerance, so having alternatives is always interesting.
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