Time flies when you are otherwise occupied!

I just realized that I haven't posted anything in almost two months. Not that I haven't had anything to post, just been busy with life.

On the stitching front, I am two thirds of the way to completing my son's afghan - the goal is to be done by Thanksgiving. A very cool crochet tie for him is about half completed. In the meantime, I finished a crochet bathmat, a tunesian crochet shawl, a knit hat for a friend who has lost her hair to chemo, and a square for an afghan for another friend who is also going through chemo. The socks I was knitting and the lace shawl haven't seen the light of day for months.

Aside from knitting/crocheting, I've been working a bit for our Supervisor of Elections helping enter data on the pollworkers they are hiring for this election in November. At some point I had to make a choice to either get involved in the politial side of things or help preserve the process. I chose the process. Until you get involved, you have no idea how complicated election law is and how many opportunities there are for each of us to make mistakes that affects our right to vote. The actual process of voting has gotten so much easier - the optical scan ballots work really well. But here we have something called "motor voter" that has really caused some issues. For one election a few years ago, we had people who came to the polls, said they had registered but they were not on the votor rolls. Apparently, the DMV hadn't forwarded the information to the Supervisor of Elections so we had no record that they had registered. Then there are the people who go to renew their license and are asked if they need to make any changes to their voter registration and answer in ways that causes their party affiliation to be changed - typically to No Party Affiliation and then they go to the polls in a primary and don't understand why their party has been changed and they can't vote for the person they want to. It is no wonder that some people get frustrated with the system.

I think my funniest story when I worked at the polls one year was the woman who came in, wasn't on the rolls and said, " I should be, I voted last month in Key West".....duh - you can only be registered in one county at a time.

And...next week I'm walking in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.

Lots going on!