competency is its own punishment
Oct. 3rd, 2022 08:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkgot a phone call yesterday from the township clerk where I work elections. "Can you second the deputy clerk? the R who's been deputy clerk for previous elections has retired, the D who was her second is now deputy clerk, and I *might* be going in for surgery later this month." "You do remember that I don't live in the township?" "yes, that doesn't matter for deputy clerk." So now I get to see the sausage behind running elections. We're stuffing absentee ballots today, and tomorrow is a meeting of the Twp Election Commission. A couple of weeks ago I went in and helped with the preliminary accuracy test -- there was an error in the program, so we have to run the preliminary test again with the new software before we can run the public test. (MI's straight-ticket voting has some quirks that the program did not handle correctly.)
The concert yesterday went pretty well. The space is long and shallow which makes it hard for us to set up. We had kids and dogs trying to pick up the toys we used as spot markers before we actually chalked spots - it's a lot easier to move a toy than erase a chalk mark. It was warm in the sun, and when I was working, but by the time we started to play, I was in the shade. I had flung a white jacket in at the last minute, so that was good. The concert went pretty well, especially allowing for the fact that it was a long way from one side of the band to the other.
Saturday's funeral meal went well - I did get a blister on the top of a toe where the seam in the sock rubbed. I need to remember that I can't wear those socks with those shoes! People kept asking me where things were, and I'm like "it's been years since I worked out of this kitchen, and stuff's been moved at least once since then. Poke around!" Many cupboards and drawers are labeled, mostly correctly, but there's a few things that 'everybody knows' where they are. (to be fair, they're large items that could only be in a couple of places anyway.) There were 160 people at the memorial service, and we got about 100 of them for the meal. We can seat about 90 in the hall, but there were some people who felt more comfortable at the tables outside, and the littles ate in the children's room. We did not run out of food, although we could have used another batch of cookies and another fruit salad. Way oversupplied on coleslaw and pasta salad, just about right on jello and tossed salads.
The concert yesterday went pretty well. The space is long and shallow which makes it hard for us to set up. We had kids and dogs trying to pick up the toys we used as spot markers before we actually chalked spots - it's a lot easier to move a toy than erase a chalk mark. It was warm in the sun, and when I was working, but by the time we started to play, I was in the shade. I had flung a white jacket in at the last minute, so that was good. The concert went pretty well, especially allowing for the fact that it was a long way from one side of the band to the other.
Saturday's funeral meal went well - I did get a blister on the top of a toe where the seam in the sock rubbed. I need to remember that I can't wear those socks with those shoes! People kept asking me where things were, and I'm like "it's been years since I worked out of this kitchen, and stuff's been moved at least once since then. Poke around!" Many cupboards and drawers are labeled, mostly correctly, but there's a few things that 'everybody knows' where they are. (to be fair, they're large items that could only be in a couple of places anyway.) There were 160 people at the memorial service, and we got about 100 of them for the meal. We can seat about 90 in the hall, but there were some people who felt more comfortable at the tables outside, and the littles ate in the children's room. We did not run out of food, although we could have used another batch of cookies and another fruit salad. Way oversupplied on coleslaw and pasta salad, just about right on jello and tossed salads.
