Hello Everyone,

I’m having quite a busy week, but wanted to take some time to share some things with you. First, I’ll tell you what I’ve been doing. Work has become very busy. A new regulatory environment is going into effect January of 2009 that impacts pretty much everything we do. Now I’ve spent the last three years helping the group prepare for the change. Still, on Monday, my boss calls me and my counterpart into his office and basically says, “You know that well-tested, stable process you’ve built up? We need you to change it. All of it.” Apparently the last phase of making sure we are ready is to make us consistent with other departments. The change has to do with a fundamental inconsistency.

Then on Tuesday, North Carolina had a runoff primary election. I worked the polls again. There was only one contest to vote on: the Democratic primary for Labor Commissioner. The polls were open for 13 hours. In that time we had 15 people come in to vote. One was ineligible as a registered Republican. Three of the votes consisted of myself and the two other registered Democrats working. Two more were spouses of the workers (B4B and one one other). So, in the final tally, there were 9 votes cast by people who were not affiliated with the Board of Elections. In my precinct, the turnout was about 1%, statewide, is was about 1.8%.

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I apologize for the lack of updates recently. Sometimes life just gets in the way of blogging. I also wanted to warn my readers that I will be on vacation all next week and then a few days, so I’m afraid updates will continue to be thin for a while. Hang in there. I’ll be back.

I’m still very short of time as I write this, but I wanted to at least post this week’s TITMT. I’ll edit this post with my answer once I have more time.

What is your favorite taste, smell, touch/texture/sensation, thing to see/sight and sound?

And of course, what TITMT would be complete without the flip side?

What is your least favorite taste, smell, touch/texture/sensation, thing to see/sight and sound?

I would like to add that I’m more interested in answers that you haven’t given before. For instance, when thinking of your favorite taste, it’s too easy to simply reiterate your answer to the ‘favorite food’ question. Instead, give me a class of tastes, like ‘salty’, or something even more creative. Since I haven’t posted a ‘least favorite’ question before, feel free to answer that any way you choose. Enjoy!

Thanks, as always, to Janet for continuing her TITMT series.

Hello dear readers,

I must apologize for the lack of updates recently. As you all know, life sometimes gets in the way. This post is to let you know what’s been going on in my life recently.

First, there was of course, the Thanksgiving Holiday. It was a bit sad since it was the first away from my family, but still enjoyable thanks to the Smith family, who adopted B4B and myself for the day. The food was excellent and the company was even better. The Smiths really made us feel at home. I am really thankful to them.

I was also in a wedding over the weekend. Congratulations to Shannon and Dan! Their wedding was wonderful and it was an honor for my wife and I to be a part of it. Currently, they are kicking it on their honeymoon in the Appalachians and I’m back to work.

We were lucky enough to host two of the wedding guests over the weekend; Hannah and Megan Ann. I really enjoyed seeing Hannah again. It had been too long. She also makes some of the best cup cakes I’ve ever tasted. It was also great to meet Megan Ann.

Finally, on the work front, the quarterly busy time began Monday (welcome back to work, Sid!). This may further slow my posting progress. Not that I post at work! No, never. Pay no attention to the time-stamps.

At the very least, I’ll get the weekly question post up this week. I’ve also started Part II of my review of John Edwards’ website. Hopefully that’ll be up soon as well.