Dear today, WTF. I have 6 hours of zoom calls scheduled, including an awards ceremony and quarterly planning. So yes, let's have crazy wind and rain that causes internet at my house to go down. I'll just pack up and head to beau's apartment, where he has internet access. It's super convenient to run a day like this from his couch, with just my laptop. I don't need a desk, second monitor, or any other home office supplies that keep me organized. This is just great. Signed, It's not even 9 AM yet and I'm exhausted
Today is our first day of class. Please be nice. Surely it will be a good year since it is 7 of you, we should really have great conversations. I hope.
Signed Teach.
PS, stay away from me, I am not looking to be quarantined.
Dear Work,
I will be out of pocket for around 4 hours doing my other job. So hopefully my COVID job gets done while I am gone.
Dear Hump day Why are you acting like a Monday. DD forgot her bag with all her school stuff so we had to turn around 75% of the way to work to go back home. Only 20 minutes late and it isn't a big deal but I just feel like I've ran a mile and it isn't even 9am. Stop being Monday Me
Dear Teach Why the elevator music while the kids sit in the waiting room of zoom in the morning? Also I love having a song be the timer for their million breaks but could you switch it up. Tired of listening to "over the rainbow". Song getting stuck in my head
Post by mrsGreeko on Sept 30, 2020 11:04:55 GMT -5
Dear school district,
Thank you thank you thank you for opening to in person school starting tomorrow. My kids are so happy. I don’t think they will take the privilege of being able to attend school lightly for the foreseeable future.
Exhausted mom
Dear puppy,
Knock off the mouthiness. I know you are just playing, but it hurts and you just cannot do that to other people.
Dear County What do you mean we will be going back to Phase 1! Phase 1 and Phase 2 don't have many differences other than how many people can be in a group. I get our cases went from less than 10 a day and K-3 kids could go back to school to 30+ a day. But we have had major wildfires with tons of people evacuated and some just now getting to check on their properties. University had move in and added 20+ cases each day and one of the retirement centers is having a huge outbreak. Could you just chill we have had a lot of moving and shaking in our county over the last 3 weeks. Not looking forward to going backwards 186momx
Also school districts that were able to go back in person for K-3 and now told you need to move to virtual and you have no plan is just ridiculous planning on the admin level. Did all the admin really stick their heads in the sand especially when other districts are already fully virtual.
Post by supertrooper1 on Sept 30, 2020 12:10:07 GMT -5
Dear other agency departments, Why is it so difficult to do your job? I left one department because no one was willing to learn how to do the job nor did they want to do any work. But now I'm in a position where my 50 person team is supposed to be working on programming issues, not fixing problems due to incompetence. I hate telling the general public that they need to file their claim based on incorrect data because someone messed up-sugar coated of course). Signed, Always complaining about this but should know how to deal by now
Dear smoke, We were supposed to have 1 last sunny day before the rains set in again. But it looks like you're going to put a damper on our sunny day again. Signed, Not ready for 180 days of gloom in the PNW
Post by mommyatty on Sept 30, 2020 14:28:05 GMT -5
Dear Weather,
You are always weird in fall and spring. But why are we having 45 degree swings in a day? This is not the desert. Why was Tuesday morning 48 degrees and this afternoon will be 91? Even for you, this is nuts.
Post by mrsGreeko on Sept 30, 2020 15:36:49 GMT -5
Dear schools and teachers,
I’m so sick of being tech support. I know this sucks for everyone, but it’s now 6 weeks in and I know that all the classes changed and all that, but jeeze Louise I cannot continue to be on call tech support. Post the damn zoom password in a place where an 11 year old can find it (or hell in a place where an adult can find it). Or actually email it. Yes, I know you said you emailed it. Great. Again I spent 20 minutes trying to find it and it’s NOT THERE so either you didn’t really send it or it didn’t go through. And also why is my 3rd grader not added to any of the class things that all the other kids are added to? Like seriously why? Freckle, epic, and prodigy and he’s on none of the lists and can’t even get into Freckle. Me thinks someone forgot to add him because there are 2 kids with the same first three letters of their names who happen to go by the same nickname perhaps? Ugh. Over it!!!!
Signed, Full time tech support while also doing a full time paid job
Please calm the F down. We have a ballot drop off box onsite because of mail in voting. This is checked 2 times a day by election officials. They never touch the ballots- they are sealed in the bin. A new bin is replaced. There are signatures and it is signed off. It's VERY official.
People have been complaining, where are the cameras I was told there would be cameras? We do have cameras, but they are mad there is not a camera literally mounted on the box, I guess. Today 2 women came in and tried to pick it up to prove it could be tampered with. It's a 4-5 foot heavy metal box. Believe me, no one can walk off with it. The only one tampering with it is you 2 morons, and plus also again they didn't actually do anything. Everything is very safe and just fine.
waverly, I'm laughing over here. We've had mail in voting forever here in Oregon. I always drop my ballot in the drop boxes. The two closest to my house is the library branch and the Wal-Mart parking lot. I've never even heard of anyone breaking in an stealing ballots or messing with them and I don't think they are video monitored.
Post by supertrooper1 on Oct 1, 2020 17:45:41 GMT -5
I've been voting by mail for almost 20 years and occasionally use those drop boxes, which I also feel are safe. My state made ballots postage paid so if someone doesn't feel safe about using a drop box they can use the post office for free! No excuse for low voter turn out in my state or to be fearful of ballot boxes since we're 100% mail in ballot. It's so much better being able to sit at home and research each ballot issue and candidate. And no little old ladies at the church in my home town telling me how cute I was as a baby and they can't believe I'm old enough to vote! LOL.
I’m not voting by mail. They’ve so far found 18k ballots that weren’t counted. Some weren’t signed, done came after the deadline, some were literally stuffed in a box in a town clerk’s office. My town had a special election last weekend. It was very smooth. No issues. It will be fine to vote in person here.
My state is also doing mail-in option for the first time, but keeps going back and forth over whether a witness signature is required. So, it’s a cluster.
I requested an absentee ballot and my request shows as pending. Still hasn't been mailed out yet. I don't intend to mail it back, I'll go drop it off at town hall instead. I'm just refusing to deal with the crazies that I know will be at my polling place. We waited in line for a couple hours last time around, so I'm not doing that again this time. I think it will be worse.
We have never had hours to wait at any of our polling places. This year might be different because they cut the number of locations in half, but we also have early voting. So maybe I will do that.
I always vote early, in person. Last year there was a pretty long line, but it wasn’t hours long. Maybe 45 minutes? Texas doesn’t allow most people to vote by mail. Honestly, Texas makes it as hard as possible to vote.
I actually work the polls every election. My grandma did it when I was young and she got me into it after grad school. She actually threatened to disown me if I didn't register to vote when I turned 18.
Our county just switched voting machines and allowed mail in ballots this year (which was crappy timing). The primary in June was a little awkward, especially since a lot of the voting districts were condensed.
I'm hoping that things go a little smoother in November. The voting locations will be mostly back to normal. The biggest thing I would like to emphasize is that if you are doing a mail in ballot, make sure you read all of the instructions carefully! If your ballot is not sealed in the two envelopes provided and signed properly, it won't count in my county! Please give your poll workers a little grace as we work with some new regulations and safety precautions due to Covid-19. I always do everything in my power to make sure your vote is filed properly so it does count!
The county where I work has the 2 envelopes and people didn't know what to do. We were telling them put them in both envelopes as that was the direction from our County clerk.
The county where I live only has one envelope and you have to sign the outside of the envelope. It's weird how it is so different.