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back to the salt mines....
Sep. 13th, 2024 03:36 pmor something like that.
Set up work for the November election has begun to ramp up. Last week, we ordered the ballots. This week, we started stuffing secrecy sleeves, and sorting out envelopes for mailing ballots, and we sent out applications for Absent Voter Ballots to the people on the list who haven't returned an application yet this year. Late next week, we should have the ballots in hand to send out to the people who have requested them. Including one person in The Netherlands who wants to be mailed a physical ballot. Not a problem, you say, just put an international stamp on it and be done. But with the new MI election laws, we have to provide *return* postage as well. It is unclear whether we can just put an international stamp on the return envelope and have it honored by the Dutch postal service, so someone (probably me, because I'm the minion), gets to go to the PO and ask. (unless the clerk remembered to ask today when she bought stamps.)
Farmington Band had their first rehearsal of the season on Monday. I'd forgotten how much work a full rehearsal is. concerts are easier. :) There is more overlap than usual between the concert repertoires for Livingston and Farmington, so that will be fun. It's probably easier that I'm not playing the same instrument in both, so it will be easier to keep the style/tempo separate....
With all the work I've been doing, I've had no time for the garden, so I think I know what I'm doing this weekend. (well, and helping J with a home renovation project. What started as a new outlet in the kitchen has morphed into installing a new water heater, remodeling the laundry room, changing the cold air return paths from upstairs, *and* a new electrical outlet in the kitchen.)
Set up work for the November election has begun to ramp up. Last week, we ordered the ballots. This week, we started stuffing secrecy sleeves, and sorting out envelopes for mailing ballots, and we sent out applications for Absent Voter Ballots to the people on the list who haven't returned an application yet this year. Late next week, we should have the ballots in hand to send out to the people who have requested them. Including one person in The Netherlands who wants to be mailed a physical ballot. Not a problem, you say, just put an international stamp on it and be done. But with the new MI election laws, we have to provide *return* postage as well. It is unclear whether we can just put an international stamp on the return envelope and have it honored by the Dutch postal service, so someone (probably me, because I'm the minion), gets to go to the PO and ask. (unless the clerk remembered to ask today when she bought stamps.)
Farmington Band had their first rehearsal of the season on Monday. I'd forgotten how much work a full rehearsal is. concerts are easier. :) There is more overlap than usual between the concert repertoires for Livingston and Farmington, so that will be fun. It's probably easier that I'm not playing the same instrument in both, so it will be easier to keep the style/tempo separate....
With all the work I've been doing, I've had no time for the garden, so I think I know what I'm doing this weekend. (well, and helping J with a home renovation project. What started as a new outlet in the kitchen has morphed into installing a new water heater, remodeling the laundry room, changing the cold air return paths from upstairs, *and* a new electrical outlet in the kitchen.)
