Friday...time to ramble?

[byslantedlight]

I swear, if I fall over one more thing this morning, spill anything else, get nearly-caught one more time doing a sneaky at the photocopier, I'm going home... Quick - how do you turn a day around?! I need good things! (Although there was no queue at the coffee counter. But my coffee wasn't very nice. And Boss stopped to chat while not-catching me at the photocopier, and the rest of it went cold. Hmmn, not sure the coffee thing was all that successful after that brief first moment... Also she'd keyed in it before I could give her my free-coffee card, so I had to pay... That might be one on the Tory side of my day, come to think of it...)

Speaking of which... *g* Oh, godddddd! Although in a way at least it's kind of interesting, and maybe it'll make the buggers buck up a bit, and start listening to what the electors are actually saying they want/need, rather than trying to tell us that what we want/need is what they're giving us? Or is that just hopeless optimism? Either way, I reckon it's our only hope for a bit of change, because it was really a race between one horse shown from three different camera angles...

How was your voting day? Did you get to vote? Cos my goodness - queues at the polling stations! On the one hand good, surely that must mean a better turnout than usual (or does it just mean that more people left it until the last minute?) I still think voting should be compulsory, as it is in Australia - and if you just don't want to vote for anyone, then spoil your paper/make a "donkey vote", and then we'd know how many people felt that way too. But it'd be a positive outcome at least from that pov...

Right - bad start means a glorious end to the day, doesn't it? I shall be over here working on that... any clues as to how to make it happen gratefully received...

A Wonderful Thing
Oh I know - let's have a Wonderful Thing - NASA's astronomy pic for today. Except they're calling this "the antennae" - stoopid, unpoetic scientists... *headdesk*


I can't decide about this next one - is this a Wonderful Thing - Arborsculpture...? Or is it as bad as forcing kittens to wear dresses and big pink ribbons?

Comments

[cornishcat.livejournal.com]

I, too, can understand jaycat's point about modernising the voting system .... yet I feel there is something very sociable about joining throngs of like-minded, motivated people - rather than sitting in judgement at a computer, isolated from the real world.

However, when I say 'throngs', I may be slightly exaggerating my personal experience. There were more officials than there were voters at our polling station ... but we did speak to each other!!

Oh, and the local MP who has been giving me grief recently got her come-uppence, tee hee *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, although interestingly enough, over at rochvelleth's lj (though I think she's flocked the post) a few Americans have popped up to say they wished they had pencils back rather than the mechanical system they've currently got, because in some ways it gives them less choice - they can't purposefully spoil their ballot paper to make a political point, for example...

Good point about sitting in judgement at a computer, isolated from the real world - that's exactly how I was thinking of it, nicely put! *g*

Also - wheeeee for comeuppances - hah! *vbg*