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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
I worked the primary election on Tuesday. It was a long, long 14-hour day, but it was neat and I’ll do it again. I was definitely the youngest worker there (33). I had both my oldest (96) and youngest (19) voters come in one right after the other. One lady got mad at me for saying her party affiliation out loud (we’re required to do this). Another was angry that I wouldn’t look at her ID (no voter ID law here). All in all, folks were pleasant and I liked my coworkers.
Highly encourage folks to work an election, even just once, to see how the process really works.
Finals! Failed one, but it was intentionally weighted to not be important, so I passed that class with a B still, and would've had a B+ at best, so I'm happy. I'm waiting on the other, but that professor has to grade 20 16-page reports and a bunch of other stuff, so I'll get it this weekend.
29-hour train ride to Salem, Oregon. It was an hour to Los Angeles, an hour wait, then 27 hours on the Amtrak Coast Starlight, with about 20 of them being spent going up California.
The ride was... Interesting. Saw a lot of walls, the industrial backbone of southern California, and coast up to San Luis Obispo, tons of chaparral wild areas, then farms as we cut inland and did a lot of reading. I got a couple whiskeys (1oz Jack Daniels), popped a melatonin at 11PM and... Woke up at 1:30. Read until my eyes were heavy went back to sleep and woke up at again at 5:30 looking at northern California's pine forests. I was going to watch the sun rise, but a bunch of people were camped out sleeping in the observation car (Coach and business class are rough sleeping, I was in business) so I watched it through the windows around my car. I managed to watch Mt. Shasta and have my cup of coffee, which was pretty cool, then I went back to catching up on lost sleep until a couple hours before getting to Salem.
As an aside, a face mask, sleep mask and blanket combo is super cozy without overheating. I wound up wearing my face mask partially out of COVID concerns, but also to sidestep irritation from the air conditioner.
I love that route! Such a pretty one. I did it from Seattle to LA several years ago.
Bought a house! And fixed this house up for selling.