Programming note

I’m volunteering as a poll worker, and since the call time is 5AM and we don’t leave the premises until the polls close at 8PM, I won’t have time to write today. Posting will resume as normal on Wednesday. (Assuming I don’t sleep all day. Which I might, as I am going to need to ingest industrial quantities of coffee to make it through today.) 

37 thoughts on “Programming note

  1. I actually had such a coffee machine 🙂 It is a beautiful piece made I believe in 1920s-30s.

    Thank you for the great blog!

  2. I’ve loved and shared your blog for many years. Thank you for all the great history articles and for being a poll worker as well. Good luck to you – and to us all – today. Looking forward to reading more of your articles, whenever you’re in shape to post them!

  3. I try to run an IV drip attached to a Box Of Joe to get me through the days like that lol. Thanks for volunteering. I got to the polls at 5:30 am. By 6:00 the line was out into the parking lot. The line moved quickly so don’t become discouraged if you’re waiting in line. The volunteers know their stuff and get you through ASAP.

    1. There were people waiting in line when I arrived at 5AM. By 6 when they opened the lined snaked around the school. I’m pretty sure I knew the least of everyone there, but as a team we worked together to ensure all voters were able to cast their ballots in as timely a fashion as possible.

    1. Truth be told, I was much more trepidacious about it the night before. Once I got there, the positive atmosphere carrying us through the hard work and challenging moments.

  4. :yes:
    Your blog is my Must Read every day.
    Today – only today – we give you leave to defend democracy :hattip:

  5. Read your blog every day!…thanks for keeping us informed and thanks for volunteering! Take a couple days off the blog, you deserve a break :yes:

  6. “…There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know…”

    :confused:

  7. To bridge the waiting time, although from the wrong continent, some historical music:

    youtube.com/watch?v=Etr-Jr-ou1M

    (Musik: Egbert Moore, a.k.a. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Beginner )

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    PS: Let’s hope the ‘industrial quantities of coffee’ will last. We count on you.

  8. echoing all the messages here, thank you (for both your work on the election and for this fantastic blog which I read everyday)

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