Four things -- I guess it's a post. :)
Jan. 10th, 2026 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkTwo days of sight reading is hard on the brain. Add in going back to work after a couple of weeks away, and I have been a bear of very little brain most of the week (except at work, I hope).
There was a message from County Elections when I got in on Tuesday "your reimbursement numbers don't match. why?" The answer to that, I am afraid, was my error. Two of them, even! A random number entry error that I managed to commit every time I added up the column, and a missing timesheet that made it hard to reconcile. But I tracked down the missing timesheet and fixed my math error and everything is now correct! whee!!
Also on Tuesday, a different email from County Elections about a possible May election for less than 400 of our residents-- how much work we'll need to do for it is very unclear at the moment. The school elections contract we have with Ingham County says that we may be responsible for administering the AV portion of the vote, but it's not at all clear *how* we are to do that. I have asked Ingham County Elections for clarification. (In a perfect world, all we'd need to do is provide Ingham County/SCS with voter information and they'll take it from there, but I doubt it'll be that easy.) At the very least, we'll have to notify affected voters about the election and that they will not be voting at the Twp Hall, but we can't do that until we know how IC/SCS wants us to handle it. So we hurry up and wait.
The weather has been very odd. Very warm for January, rain and wind. The piles of snow in the yard are long gone, most parking lot snow piles are gone as well. The pond is almost completely melted -- the remaining ice "sheet" is about a quarter of the pond surface. I've put a couple of armloads of branches on the burn pile since the wind let up, and there's still more to pick up. But it's much colder today than it was yesterday, and I didn't have my gloves on, so I only did one load today. And it has just begun to snow. (probably not going to stick, but it is indeed snowing.)
The cats are displeased by the weather --they both want to go out when it's not raining or snowing, but it's been cold and/or windy. This morning, Annabelle meowed and scratched at the side door until I let her out. A couple of minutes later, she was at the back door wanting in. It takes her about two minutes to get from the side door to the back door...
(edit for grammar. sigh)
There was a message from County Elections when I got in on Tuesday "your reimbursement numbers don't match. why?" The answer to that, I am afraid, was my error. Two of them, even! A random number entry error that I managed to commit every time I added up the column, and a missing timesheet that made it hard to reconcile. But I tracked down the missing timesheet and fixed my math error and everything is now correct! whee!!
Also on Tuesday, a different email from County Elections about a possible May election for less than 400 of our residents-- how much work we'll need to do for it is very unclear at the moment. The school elections contract we have with Ingham County says that we may be responsible for administering the AV portion of the vote, but it's not at all clear *how* we are to do that. I have asked Ingham County Elections for clarification. (In a perfect world, all we'd need to do is provide Ingham County/SCS with voter information and they'll take it from there, but I doubt it'll be that easy.) At the very least, we'll have to notify affected voters about the election and that they will not be voting at the Twp Hall, but we can't do that until we know how IC/SCS wants us to handle it. So we hurry up and wait.
The weather has been very odd. Very warm for January, rain and wind. The piles of snow in the yard are long gone, most parking lot snow piles are gone as well. The pond is almost completely melted -- the remaining ice "sheet" is about a quarter of the pond surface. I've put a couple of armloads of branches on the burn pile since the wind let up, and there's still more to pick up. But it's much colder today than it was yesterday, and I didn't have my gloves on, so I only did one load today. And it has just begun to snow. (probably not going to stick, but it is indeed snowing.)
The cats are displeased by the weather --they both want to go out when it's not raining or snowing, but it's been cold and/or windy. This morning, Annabelle meowed and scratched at the side door until I let her out. A couple of minutes later, she was at the back door wanting in. It takes her about two minutes to get from the side door to the back door...
(edit for grammar. sigh)
