Voted early, voted once. This is my ballot in its mail-in envelope on my desk last Tuesday morning.
I dropped it into a mailbox on my lunch hour.
Now, I wish all the political commercials were also done and gone. But I think there may be just a few people who haven’t voted yet and of course the commercial wars will rage until election day has come and gone.
I try to avoid them by listening to public radio and watching HGTV and DIY network.
Listening to radio isn’t as easy as it used to be since Jasper chewed up the remote control to my good old Bose wave radio (the older model which does have controls on the radio itself, unlike the current model which has all controls on the remote). I just ordered a replacement remote for ten bucks, which should get here before election day and help keep my stress levels down.
You only get to vote once? SHOOT I’ve been doing it wrong all these years!
With today’s technology you’d think they could figure out a way that when that mail-in blot leaves my house that all:political commercials (thank God for Tivo!), ballot related junk mail, and people ringing my door bell with clipboard in hand would be blocked my some invisible force-field.
Probably why I haven’t bothered to sit down and vote yet – I don’t really a feeling that my vote will make a difference yet in my world.
But perhaps this week I’ll hire a sitter for one of these evenings so I can spend a fun filled evening doing my civic duty.
I see the campaigning as an enormous waste of resources that could be used to do some good. We should adopt the European system of a few weeks of campaigning and that’s it.