I'm all for living in harmony with nature and whatnot, but the bunnies that swarm around this building are very pushy. This morning, one of them hopped into the parking lot and stared at me until I moved over fifteen feet to let it get to one of the remaining patches of sweet, green grass it wanted to nibbled for breakfast.
I mean, I'm bigger than it is and I might have been dangerous. How did it know I'd be so easy to push around?
Stupid rabbits.
I tried a new make-up routine this morning and I might have wound up looking fabulous if I hadn't forgotten my mascara. How can a face with this many layers of creams and powders and whatnot on it look unfinished? Also - bad hair day.
Whatever.
Tomorrow is my birthday. I will be 32. (Shaddup.)
Yesterday afternoon, late, I loaded up one location's campaign with the new marketing structure I've been working on for the last three months. I came in to check it this morning, and was more relieved than I can say to find that nothing was broken. (When you're making sweeping, wholesale changes to a system that produces over half your company's sales, it pays to be cautious.)
Now I have to load up the other fifty campaigns. I'm the sort of person who will happily spend three months creating some new kind of system and then test it with deep interest--but who then views the loading of the other 50 campaigns as tedium beyond belief.
Also, in today's big surprise (NOT), they have decided not to move to the new once-a-month 'NutNews schedule that was slated to take effect on November 1. No, they want to stay on the twice-a-month schedule through the end of the year.
Also, they want the new version "spiced up." Apparently the sleek blues and the cleaner graphics are boring. I don't know what they mean by "spiced up." I have inquired what they have in mind - porn or bright red fonts or whatever.
If TeamChaos wants to improve the newsletter, they'd be better off taking a look at their yawner content.
Glancing casually at the early-morning voting news, I see people whining because they cast their votes early and then changed their minds on some issues. They're blaming early voting for causing them problems.
Me, I think they should have figured out what they wanted to vote for before they voted - be it early or on the day. This really is a nation of whiny, cry-babies sometimes, you know? And a lot of them want to be spoon-fed at every step of their lives.
Sheesh.
Actually, it's been a pretty decent day so far, in spite of the tedious hour-long meeting on the new benefits program. (Such a waste of time.)
posted by AnneZook on 11.04.08 at 02:32 PMI see people whining because they cast their votes early and then changed their minds on some issues.
Republicans have been complaining about this lately: that early voters don't get "all the information," especially that late-breaking energy policy and diplomatic posture realignment stuff.... Basically, you can't come from behind if people make up their minds while you're still behind.
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 11.04.08 at 03:53 PM [permalink]And I can see how that would be annoying to candidates. I can even see how I might be annoyed (if it were my candidate trying to come from behind).
But the bottom line is that there are too many people for us all to stand in line on voting day.
posted by: Anne on 11.05.08 at 04:28 PM [permalink]True, but with modern technology, we shouldn't have to. We run billions of dollars through distributed electronic systems every day, nearly error-free (unless the banking industry is hiding something about ATMs that I don't realize). There's no reason we couldn't create a system (or hijack the ATM networks!) allowing people to vote from almost anywhere at any time.
Me, I think we should switch to weekend voting, maybe noon Saturday to noon Sunday -- nobody's religious celebrations make voting impossible, there's hours and hours to count the votes on Sunday afternoon, and the "time tax" of lines would be less harmful when people have time off.
posted by: Jonathan Dresner on 11.05.08 at 06:27 PM [permalink]What? You don't think Election Day should be a national holiday - giving everyone the day off with pay to go vote?
(Neither do I. I know people--they'd take the day off and be traveling on vacation or never quite get around to going to the polls.)
Naturally I agree that we have more than enough technological expertise to create a reliable secure electronic voting system. It's a pity we don't do it.
posted by: Anne on 11.06.08 at 08:00 AM [permalink]