Brrr stupid rain

[annathepiper]

-0: Today's weather: absolutely craptastic. Cold, windy, and rainy. The sort of rain we do not often get in Seattle and thereabouts, and the exact sort of rain that gets your socks wet because you can't avoid any of the large puddles forming on the roads when you're crossing the street and such.

-0.5: And because my socks are wet, my feet are still cold. And it's cold in this lab. Brrr.

-1: Missed my 7:30 of the 522 on the way in this morning, and therefore got to work later than I wanted. Bah. But I did get here.

+/2: The question will be, however, how long I'll be here today before I'll need to take off and go vote. I'll have to alter my afternoon bus schedule to swing over to where I need to be, cast my vote, then get on another bus to get home. Anybody in Seattle-land got any stories to tell about what the polling places hereabouts are looking like today?

-3: (Inserted in 12:49pm) Oh yes, I forgot: no iPod for me today because the stupid battery has decided to start acting up again. Tried to go ahead and drain it last night by playing it as much as I could, then letting it sit till it decided it actually had more power, and then draining it again. But I forgot to plug it into its charger cradle before I went to bed, so no music for me today. (Not like I can't actually reconstruct practically every single Great Big Sea song there is chord by chord in my brain, but hey, there's a PRINCIPLE here.)

Comments

[kent.livejournal.com]

At the Ballard House polling station (about NW 28th St and 57th Ave NW), which I presume is my polling place due to some odd precinct drawing in the area, I got there at 7:05 and waited about 5 minutes for a ballot. It was pretty crowded, but 1) turnout is expected to be high, 2) the polling place had just opened, 3) we have a lot of issues and candidates on our ballots -- bring a cheat sheet!, and 4) the polling place is the ground floor of a retirement apartment complex and all those early-bird seniors decided to vote early since they were up anyway.

I suspect you'll have a better chance the earlier you can get to the polling place (before too many people get off work).

[annathepiper]

Thanks for the info! Yeah, I'm going to see if I can bail early for voting, especially given that I'm bussing it today.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

No wait at the Bothell library. In the door, to the table, "hi, saw your wife, here's your ballot", marked it, fed it to the machine, fed it to the machine again, out. :-)

[annathepiper]

Nifty. :) I've gotten sanction to bail early for voting purposes as long as I finish up high-pri stuff before I go. I may not actually need it--but if the weather still sucks out there I suspect that I'll just need the extra time for transit rather than the actual voting.

And perhaps I will purchase new shoes whose soles aren't falling apart, so that my socks do not continue to get damp in the rain. ;P :)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

*belatedly repeats "Stupid, stupid rain!" in his terrible imitation of Emma Thompson's voice*

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

I got out and voted at 9:45AM, Pennsylfucky time... right before I had to walk to work... (in the cold wet and dreary rain- yes, it's raining here as well, and my cold is getting worse) I was the only one in my local precinct to vote at that particular time... wasa bit confused by some of the candidates, and kept thinking they left one off ::shrug:: Was mildly amused that someone before me had stuck a piece of paper under one of the levers for Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck... Left it there for someone else to get a chuckle... Then to work to deal with people who couldn't find their voting district, etc at the last minute, got let off early, and walked back home (in the cold, wet rain)

[annathepiper]

Hope you have good shoes and warm socks.

We have paper ballots here--the 'fill in the oval' type.

[annathepiper]

Heh. :)

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Well, the shoes and socks were dry before I left... not afterward... And since I'd had to walk to work an hour later anyway, I didn't see any reason to change them, so I propped my feet in front of my space heater in the interim to dry off some... they got wet again on the walk to work... and I took my shoes off again (like I usually do, much to the irksome displeasure of some of the floor coaches who tell me I can't do that) once I got to work... Got wet again on the walk home... ::sigh::

As for voting and polls, I'm almost certain that most of the precincts around here use the ones with the pull-down levers... so much easier, IMHO

[annathepiper]

You might want to invest in new shoes.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Or bug the street department around here to clear the leaves out of the drains so I don't have to walk through rivers to cross the street

[annathepiper]

I somehow suspect that you'll get a faster return out of buying shoes. ;) Perhaps with a bottle of waterproofing goop. Or, old-fashioned as the idea may sound, galoshes! I mean, this is what such footwear is made for, after all.

Though I'm not sure if I know of anyone over the age of eight who actually wears galoshes. I suppose that if you're a grownup, they're "rain boots". ;)

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

I somehow suspect that you'll get a faster return out of buying shoes. ;) Perhaps with a bottle of waterproofing goop. Or, old-fashioned as the idea may sound, galoshes! I mean, this is what such footwear is made for, after all.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh... and hear... "Don't forget your rubbers"... hehe.. i had a pair of hiking boots around here somewhere, but they make my feet hurt :(

[annathepiper]

Bummer. :) Well, just saying, in general, there are options to pursue if you want to fix the 'my feet get wet when it rains' problem. Good luck in your quest for shoe replacement!

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

I prob will end up going to payless before the snow starts falling in copious amounts and see if I can find another pair of hiking boots... Only problem is finding a pair to fit my size 8W duck feet :)

[annathepiper]

Heh. :) Well, good luck!

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

why thankee... had our first snowing today... saw it from my workstation at work... nothing stuck though

[annathepiper]

I'm sure you'll get more soon enough. :)

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Enough of that foul talk...Be gone with you! I've had enough of your nonsense from your smelly mouth filled with... corn! lol

[annathepiper]

*snicker*

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

hey, no snickers unless you intend to share the packed-with-peanuty goodness with me... ;)

[annathepiper]

I think you'll get chocolate a lot faster from a closer source. :)