Well, I should recount the past week.  I left off with last Monday.  Tuesday I got up and went to vote, and was surprised to find an hour wait!  I guess that just goes to show how many more people are moving into the area and chaning it from the out-of-town it was ten years ago when we moved here.  I ended up late for work, which was no big deal as everyone else seemed to be trapped in voting lines rather than out buying maps.  It proved to be a good day for starting my latest work project, updating the products for our Web site.  It's easy but time consuming.  Worse, it hasn't been done in months so I have a backlog of stuff to do. 

 

Wednesday I was surprised to discover that most of the propositions and candidates went my way.  Usually I have few things for which I vote that I actually get.  For the record I voted:

 

US President:  Kerry

US Senator:  McCain

US Rep Dist 3:  Shadegg

AZ Senator Dist 7:  Waring

AZ Rep Dist 7:  Barnes & Cain

AZ Corp Comm:  Fowlkes, Hatch-Miller, Manoil, and Mundell

Maricopa Attorney:  Thomas

Maricopa Sheriff:  Arpaio

Maricopa Special Healthcare Dist 3:  Williams

PV Unified #69 School Gov Board:  Case, Greenberg, and Skidmore

PV Unified #69 to join West-Mec:  Yes

Central AZ Water Conservation Dist:  Bitter Smith, Bray, Deibel, Hendricks, and Kohloff.

Prop 100:  Yes

Prop 101:  No

Prop 102:  No

Prop 103:  No

Prop 104:  No

Prop 105:  No

Prop 200:  Yes

Prop 300:  No

Prop 400:  Yes

Prop 401:  Yes

 

I also voted to retain all three AZ Supreme Court judges, all eight Court of Appeals Divison 1 judges, and thirty-five of fourty Superior Court judges.  The judges I voted against retaining were Araneta, Contes, McClennen, Steinle, and Trujillo. 

 

The week went by pretty fast.  As I already stated, Friday night's session was canceled and I chose to stay home and organize my neglected house rather than try to join Mer or Bill at the last minute.  Saturday was another session of Steve's FR campaign which I should do recaps of soon.  Sunday Father Milt gave a homily on the modern troubles of identity theft and how our identity as children of God cannot be taken away from us.  It brilliantly wove the readings and gospel together and contrasted the attacks against our identity as God's children against the identity theft fraud.  My grandmother says she missed having Father Milt at her parish. 

 

The office today told me that the economy is so bad that they're going to not have a trash bin for tree and bush trimmings this autumn.  Instead, they'll only have the one for holiday trees in December.  I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. 

 

Anyway, it's time to bid everyone a great week.  God bless!

 

 

Bill called me this week and wanted to go see The Incredibles on opening night because the first Revenge of the Sith trailer is supposed to be attached.  I had to beg off until I have the funds.  I recall this happened when Wing Commander came out, too.  Eventually I got to see the trailer attached to something, I just don't remember what. 

 

Mer called me this week and wanted me to go to First Friday with her and her friends, but I have work early on Saturdays so I turned her down.  Besides, at the time I still thought we had a Friday night at my place.  I feel bad because we never seem to have schedules which match up.  However, I'd have to leave downtown by 21:30 if I wanted to be home in time to get enough sleep for the next day, which wouldn't be enough time to do much.  Sometimes my work schedule can get in the way. 

 

Instead I seized the afternoon cancelation as an opportunity to catch up on stuff at home.  Saturday we still had Steve's FR 3.0 campaign.  However, today I spent the day catching up on more stuff at home.  I haven't had this much time to catch up in ages, and I like it!  I need more me and my house time.  I spend too much of my time with others.  Next up, me and the outdoors time would be nice too.