Another quick one. Talk to your friends about voting. This morning I was talking to a co-worker about random stuff and they mentioned how weird it was they hadn’t received their ballot yet. They plan on voting in-person, so I reminded them they’d need to bring the ballot in order to surrender it at the poll on 11/3.

I asked when they last voted and it was in the last primary. Weird! I said “we gotta check your voter status”. Sure enough, they’d been reclassified as inactive, even though they voted in the last election!

Luckily, the deadline for registrations here is still a few days away and they were able to get re-registered in time.

Please, have casual chats with your friends and make sure they’ve received their ballots! My friend almost missed-out on voting!!!

 Just a quick mid-week post. If you are hoping Biden wins this election, please don’t believe the reports on the polls. In my office alone, I am out-voted by Trump supporters 6 to 1. Trust me, they ARE voting and they ARE NOT answering poll questions.

Don’t get complacent, please vote!!

Be safe, stay healthy and if you feel sick, stay home!!!

Take care of each other!!

 Today was an absolutely absurd day and you know what?  I couldn't stop laughing at all the stuff that went crazy wrong!  If it was another day of the week, I probably would have gotten angry, but as it is Friday, I just couldn't help but laugh.  

Everyone called out at the office today.  Seriously!  They either worked from home or called in sick and it was literally just me.  The thing about that is, everyone who did either of those things thought there would be someone who backed them up in the office to do the stuff that can't be done remotely.  NOPE!  Just me!  At times I felt like Lucy without an Ethel or French without a Saunders.  I was walked through a bunch of things over the phone though and we made it through just fine.  

The first burst of laughter came when I was instant messaging back and forth with my boss figuring out how to deal with the challenges we knew we were going to have when all of a sudden blood started gushing out of my nose, all over my hands, desk, papers, floor mat and the lap area of my pants.  FYI - Tide pen does NOT take out blood from pants.  I've always been prone to bloody noses, ever since I was a little kid, so I didn't freak out.  I stopped getting them regularly a few years ago (apart from when I would go to higher altitudes) and then about 18 months ago, they started back up and I've been having 3-5 a week.....except for the last week, where I've had NONE!  Not a single one.  Weird, right?  When I do have them, they usually aren't bad and stop in a few minutes.  Boy, not today!  It went on for a long while, probably because I was laughing so hard and saying "Shit!" over and over again as I scrambled to get more tissues. If they ever luminol the office, it's going to light up like a Christmas tree and they're going to think it is a crime scene!

Thank goodness nothing got on my blouse, so no one on my weekly Zoom call knew, HA!  With this group, I totally would have gotten shit for it!

I think I was able to calm the stressed-out folks who were working from and worried about their stuff not getting done and like I said, we didn't suffer at all from people not being there.

So I can't say it was a bad day, and that's a good thing!

Bring on the weekend!!!!

If it happens on Monday though, I'm probably going home sick. HAHAHAHA!!!

 Wow, I've had a few good days since my last post!  YAY!  The rumor we'd heard at work was true and they have begun allowing 50% of the office to work on site at any one time.  This is great because, before we were sent home and capacity was at 20%, it was a finite list of people that equaled 20% and only they were allowed in the office, so if they didn't go in, less than 20% would be there.  This time it's 50% at any time, so if I decide to go in, I am part of the 50% that's counted, but if I decide to work from home, that percentage can be used by someone else.  It's awesome!  Especially with the heat we've been having.  I've been going in to the office 4-5 days a week and loving it. (Hooray for free a/c!!)

I mean, it's a job, don't get me wrong, but being at the office is so much better than being at home.  There are still only four or five of us in there and we're really spread far apart while working and we stand at least 6 feet away while chatting.  I'm so fortunate!  I'm also very grateful that I have the choice to work either from home or the office.  When the weather cools down, I'll probably work a couple days a week from home.

Completely different topic - A few weeks ago, I decided that I needed to get some sort of exercise.  Bikes are pretty much sold-out everywhere and I didn't really want to deal with scratching the heck out of my car by trying (and probably failing) to properly install a bike rack.......so I went with rollerblades.  ROLLERBLADES!!!  Me?  Yes!  I haven't really been on skates since the late 70's!  There was a few times in the early 90's I tried skating again, but I didn't do much. 

This last weekend, a co-worker whose hockey league has been cancelled, said they would help teach me to remember how to skate and not fall down.  We went to a local park and skated for about an hour.  Holy crap!  I was so tired and thirsty when we were done, I almost threw-up!  It was so much fun though!  I was able to do well going forward up hill and forward on flat parts!  Down hill and braking..... not so much!  Gotta work on those two things!  I only ran into a chain link fence a few times and I didn't TOTALLY fall at all.  I ALMOST fell a few times, but that's different!  What's with only one skate having a brake and why is it on the back????  

The helmet, pads and guards are dorky, but at my age, who knows if I have osteoporosis or something equally bad?  I don't want to shatter my aged bones! 

Anyway, I had a really fun time and can't wait to go again!  

That's it for now.  If you're here in the USA-- don't forget to vote!  Read all your ballot instructions and make sure you follow them!  I voted yesterday!  It's a great feeling!!