Happy Christmas. Now back to work!
Dec. 31st, 2023 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkFreshly written MI election law says that Applications for Absent Voter Ballots must be in the mail by 29 Dec. The voter database did not have a final voter list until 23 Dec, and without that list the applications cannot be printed. Because the law was approved so late, the three state-authorised printers were very backlogged on printing the application return envelopes, and smaller orders were shifted to the back of the queue. All of this is background to why I went in to work three days this week. We *did* get all of the applications out, so there's that. Theoretically, the AV application list will be much shorter in the future, as people will choose to be on the "send me a ballot" list, rather than the "send me an application for a ballot" list. We shall see.
J and I went to church on Xmas Eve to ring chimes. Then we left, still a bit uncertain of our germ-carrying status, as we'd not gotten home from NC until late Friday - we could still have been pre-symptomatic.
Going in to work three days last week did mean that I was able to avoid the problem in the workroom, but I really need to get started on that. DonWanna. OK, I'll be very glad when it's done, but actually *doing* it isn't going to be much fun. The last time I did some sorting in the basement, the CD changer took a dive off the shelf and J had to rip it down to bare chassis and bend a few things back so that it would actually work. sigh.
Christmas was very quiet here. Nobody called (to be fair, the phone wasn't working, so I'm not sure how they would have). The phone guy came out on Tuesday and swapped the line connections at the switchbox at the corner -- mice get in, then snakes follow the mice, then connections short out.... I called Mum on my cellphone, which *was* working (sometimes I have no signal at the house), and she said that her "orphans" supper was going to have extra attendees, as at least one couple's Xmas plans were modified by the hosts getting ill -- nobody wants to give grampa COVID or RSV for Christmas, after all.
J and I went to church on Xmas Eve to ring chimes. Then we left, still a bit uncertain of our germ-carrying status, as we'd not gotten home from NC until late Friday - we could still have been pre-symptomatic.
Going in to work three days last week did mean that I was able to avoid the problem in the workroom, but I really need to get started on that. DonWanna. OK, I'll be very glad when it's done, but actually *doing* it isn't going to be much fun. The last time I did some sorting in the basement, the CD changer took a dive off the shelf and J had to rip it down to bare chassis and bend a few things back so that it would actually work. sigh.
Christmas was very quiet here. Nobody called (to be fair, the phone wasn't working, so I'm not sure how they would have). The phone guy came out on Tuesday and swapped the line connections at the switchbox at the corner -- mice get in, then snakes follow the mice, then connections short out.... I called Mum on my cellphone, which *was* working (sometimes I have no signal at the house), and she said that her "orphans" supper was going to have extra attendees, as at least one couple's Xmas plans were modified by the hosts getting ill -- nobody wants to give grampa COVID or RSV for Christmas, after all.
