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jennlkI needed my d$#n cell phone to log into my google mail account this morning. All of a sudden, google decided that it didn't recognise my desktop computer (that I set my google account up on years ago), and insisted that I confirm with my cell phone. Which is a) in the other room because b) cell connection sucks out here. It took four tries to get the notification through, FFS. grumble. stupid security theater.
Also in security theater, the new paperwork for municipal employment requires either a passport or drivers' license + birth certificate. The feds now require election inspectors to be actual employees of the municipality in which the election is held, rather than contract employees as in prior years. So the township employee rolls just quadrupled. I gave the clerk a new file, so she can submit me as a D or an R depending upon which she needs more. The only thing that affiliation affects is a little letter on my assignment at elections, and who I can be paired with for some tasks. She's not been using me for elections because she's gotten so many new Ds moving into the township, but she needs Rs, and asked if I'd be willing to change that flag -- she'd much rather have me than some half-trained hard-core R from elsewhere in the county, which is what she's gotten the last few times she's asked the county for one. Especially for the Absentee Voter Board, which gets locked in a room for 10 hours. (The county acts as a clearing house for election inspectors if a municipality can't fill its balance with people from its files.)
In less muttery news, music making continues. Still flailing at the bouncy bits in Britten's Theme and Fugue, but I'll get it -- I've got the notes, now I just need to speed it up and get it with other stuff going on around me. I won't get all of the runs without getting a new horn, so I'll have to fake those.
Weather continues to be January - hovering around freezing, with occasional precipitation.
Also in security theater, the new paperwork for municipal employment requires either a passport or drivers' license + birth certificate. The feds now require election inspectors to be actual employees of the municipality in which the election is held, rather than contract employees as in prior years. So the township employee rolls just quadrupled. I gave the clerk a new file, so she can submit me as a D or an R depending upon which she needs more. The only thing that affiliation affects is a little letter on my assignment at elections, and who I can be paired with for some tasks. She's not been using me for elections because she's gotten so many new Ds moving into the township, but she needs Rs, and asked if I'd be willing to change that flag -- she'd much rather have me than some half-trained hard-core R from elsewhere in the county, which is what she's gotten the last few times she's asked the county for one. Especially for the Absentee Voter Board, which gets locked in a room for 10 hours. (The county acts as a clearing house for election inspectors if a municipality can't fill its balance with people from its files.)
In less muttery news, music making continues. Still flailing at the bouncy bits in Britten's Theme and Fugue, but I'll get it -- I've got the notes, now I just need to speed it up and get it with other stuff going on around me. I won't get all of the runs without getting a new horn, so I'll have to fake those.
Weather continues to be January - hovering around freezing, with occasional precipitation.
