Playing with the kids on Friday evening. Running around the house. Managed to bash my right pinky toe. Boy did that hurt. Still a little swollen today - and achy. I've got my foot up, watching Johnny Mnemonic. Made it harder to Geocache over the weekend. But we did anyhow. Went around shopping at the outlets in Castle Rock. Huge number of grasshoppers in Castle Rock area. Geocaches seemed pretty sparse - but it was a neat find. I've started using Google's Earth program even more. It crashed on me once, but luckily I saved most of my locations to files. Looked at the file format that Google saves in - it turned out to be a zip, with an XML file - cool. That has the potential to allow saving coordinates for easy download - perhaps an enhancement on geocaching.com - I hope!
Voting is different here in Colorado than it was back on the East Coast. In New Jersey, and I remember it was the same basic things when my parents voted in New York, the voting was in a mechanical voting booth. You would go to a desk and sign the big book. The would give you a sheet of paper. You would take the paper over to a voting machine. An assistant would take the paper and put it somewhere on the side of the machine. You would pull a big mechanical handle that would close the curtain behind you. Then you would flip the levers to indicate your vote. After, you would push the big handle, which would record your vote, reset the levers and open the curtain.
Here in Colorado, the beginning of the process is the same. You wait on line and sign the big book. I went with my wife, as she dropped her car off for service. At first she was going to vote before she dropped off her car. But she called me to tell me the line was an hour long. After I picked her up at the shop,...
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