Mortaine’s Blog

There’s a special election here in CA on Nov. 8.

Naturally, I’m working it.

I went to training last night.

As of January, 2006, we will have an electronic voting option. There will also still be a paper ballot, but it will be scanned and read in “real time” by an electronic machine.

I don’t know if this is a good thing or not.

Bus strike protesters stage protest at director’s house.

My fav:
“We underestimated the reaction of the neighbors,” Ramnath said. “A man came out of the house and started yelling profanities at me,” she said, “and said in quite aggressive terms that we needed to get out or beware.

“This other woman came out with a hose and said, ‘It looks like a good time to water the lawn,’ and started spraying us,” Ramnath said. One neighbor pointed a shotgun at protesters, she said.

This was in Scotts Valley, the town in which I lived until April of this year.

Depending on where in SV this was, I’m not surprised at all. Folks from Santa Cruz have this wacky idea that everyone in the county agrees with their views. When you are a liberal in Scotts Valley, you realize that Scotts Valley is the bastion of the Santa Cruz County conservatives. A shotgun is, however, too far, simply because you just DON’T point a gun at someone if you aren’t planning to pull the trigger.

For the record: I support the striking bus drivers, but I think they ought to compromise a bit. The demands seem… excessive, right now, compared to the reality of the economy right now.

R.I.P., you amazing person.

If I come to the end of my life at 92 and have lived as full a life and as meaningful a life as she did, I will be 100% content with myself at death.