Okay, I'm officially annoyed

I was planning to vote for Jim Gray for Congress, but as I was doing some last minute research, I did consider Amy McGrath as a candidate, but had decided for the most part to go with my first choice. Then I got this text from someone with her campaign that I don't know, telling me to go vote and at least implying I should vote for her, which settled the issue for me, as I do not appreciate unsolicited campaign texts. After all, there are still people who pay per text, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who got this. Granted, mine are unlimited, but still, it is intrusive and unwarranted. I'd also like to know where they got my name and cell phone number, as to my knowledge I haven't given that number out to a political organisation, and it was obviously not a random text, as they called me by name. So in doing this, 'Sam' lost a potential vote for his campaign. Grrr.

Apparently, when checking on this, while it is illegal for companies to send unsolicited texts without consent, campaigns are exempt as they are non-commercial, even though they often use such texts to solicit money or votes. But I did find lots of other people who didn't like this kind of spam. So I'm not alone.

Still considering if it's worth texting back my feelings on the subject, but it's probably some sort of bot texting, anyway. :(

I voted

Did you?

I have an excellent reason

To head on to bed: tomorrow is the Kentucky primary,  and I have to get up early to vote at a new location,  the new Eastside Library branch,  which replaced the old Eagle Creek Library I used to go to.  I'm interested in how they set up,  as the old library's meeting room was right as you went in. The new one has the rooms upstairs. Since the library opens at 9:30 am,  but the polls open at 6 am,  I wonder how it will be set up.  It should be interesting.  There are only three offices on our precinct's Democratic ballot: President,  Senator,  and Representative (Kentucky has a closed primary system--you can only vote on your party's ballot,  and this year the Republicans held a Presidential caucus in March, so they're only voting for lesser offices). I hope for a good turnout.  Be sure to go out and vote,  Kentucky! And if you're a Democrat,  I hope you will consider Bernie Sanders for President and Jim Gray for Senator.

Yes, I did vote today

So far, all of my candidates have progressed to the general election in November, and been the top vote-getters in elections where more than one candidate goes forward, with two positions still unknown--my district council seat and the judge-executive one. But Grimes will face McConnell, Jensen will face Barr, Mayor Gray will face Beatty, but had a good margin over him, and Kay, Moloney, and Cegelka all made it to the general ballot for at-large council members. Woo-hoo! The two races that haven't been decided yet that were on my ballot were the two I couldn't find much information about beforehand, unfortunately, especially the judge-executive race, which in Fayette County isn't a big position because unlike most other counties in the Commonwealth, we are a merged city-county government.

The third candidate in the mayoral race, named Mayer (Mayor Mayer?) lost any chance with me when he responded to a question about the challenges faced by the office in the Herald-Leader's voting guide with a haiku, and a bad one at that (it didn't incorporate the full range of haiku elements). Granted, I like Mayor Gray anyway and think he's done a great job, so I never really considered voting for this guy, but really? I want serious candidates on the ballot, not someone playing games who thinks he's clever.

Anyway, if you live in Kentucky, hope you voted today. I know turnout was expected to be low, and I know of only 2 people in my workplace who had stickers on (and I'm one of them). Just remember, no complaining about the results if you don't exercise your right to vote.!

Must remember

to vote in the primary election tomorrow. I should get up early and do so, although I'm up awfully late tonight. If you live in Kentucky, don't forget to exercise your right to vote!

Well, I voted, for what it was worth

Election problems minimal by mid-afternoon Tuesday; turnout looks to be 'abysmal'

We simply aren't having much in the way of interesting races here in Kentucky, except maybe a bit in Northern Kentucky. On my ballot, and on the one a friend voted on? President of the United States: Obama or uncommitted.

Here in Kentucky you can't cross party lines to vote in the other party's primary election, either. Not that I would, most likely, but still. So if you didn't care for your candidates (assuming you had any), there wasn't much alternative.

They're thinking voting will be at 10-12%. I'm thinking it may be even lower. So why did I go vote? Well, Joel Pett's editorial cartoon in the Lexington Herald-Leader today pretty much sums up the apathy, and I for one don't want to be among the apathetic. In it there is a polling place with no voters and cobwebs on the machines, with lonely election workers with nothing to do. One says to the other, 'I guess most people need a better reason than that they can.' We should never, ever take that right for granted, and should exercise it whenever possible. Just saying....

So I'll just get up early

Last night was a bust in terms of my list, not surprisingly. I napped, and I blogged, and actually used my oven, but didn't get anything else accomplished. This morning I've gotten up early and have already put the laundry in. The machine in the laundry room actually had Diet Pepsi in it, so I'm having a bit of caffeine and will cook some Irish oatmeal in a little while. According to one of the books I was reading last night, my timing is off on eating. I usually check my blood sugar, take my medicine, and have a bagel and cream cheese or a Pop-Tart as soon as I get into work. But I eat with the other women at 11:30 am. So it's too close together (and yes, I know the two choices above are not particularly good and that I need some protein...I'll need to find something that would be better, since our breakfast closes at 9:30 at the hospital (and is mostly meat in terms of protein anyway). Maybe Maybe get some bagels and just eat half of one with peanut butter about 7 in the morning? I seem to recall 1/2 a bagel being an exchange.

I've cleaned part of the living room, where the computer is. I'm going to check the news while the laundry goes.

I'm also up early so that I can vote. I know my choices for several offices, although city council's the one I have to find out more about, so I'll poke about for that. Otherwise I'm ready. A is going to call about 7:30 or 8 to check and make sure I'm awake. :)

I'm really not trying to be depressing

In fact I've twittered several small, happy things from my mundane life. So what's going on with me? Today was a good day, full of productive work and then I got some medicine, voted, got my new library card (with the keychain card, too), went to the gym (and got a new card for that, too, since it's changed from Gold's Gym to Urban Active), came home, and I've had a relaxing time, taking a nap, blogging, etc.

Tomorrow should be even better. We have a birthday breakfast at work where the directors serve and the administrator cooks omelets. It's something they do every six months or so, so even though I had a birthday in April, I go to this one. I'll need to get up early, as it finishes at 9 am and I'm usually at work at 10. Then there's a plenary session on Web 2.0 provided by webcast from MLA for those of us not in Chicago at the annual meeting. I have decided that I'm celebrating getting paid on Wednesday and Thursday with pizza (I have a coupon all ready, so it won't be very expensive) for lunch tomorrow. Then Thursday I'm going to pay my bills and get some gas and groceries.

Well, that's what's going on in my life, which is significantly better than last week. Hoping you're having a decent day/week, too.

Tomorrow is our primary

I'm voting for Obama, of course; I'm almost always in the minority when it comes to Kentucky's voters. I have a guide published in the paper Sunday for some of the other races that I need to look over. Interesting enough, John McCain never even answered any of the questions. I guess he figures he has the Republican nomination, why bother dealing with a local newspaper of a decent-sized but by no means major metropolitan area? The main non-presidential race is that of the Democratic nominee who will go against the juggernaut Mitch McConnell, who has a lot of influence in Washington and is currently the highest ranking Republican in Congress, as he is the minority leader of the Senate. He's been in office since first running for Senate in 1984.