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Jun. 25th, 2022 09:46 pm I spent waaay too long out in the heat today. There was Jefferson County’s first Pride celebration, which I went to along with Laura and Jessica and Jill and a couple of other Democrats, just to show up and be friendly and hopefully remind people that Jefferson County Democrats exist and are supportive enough that we might be worth votes. Laura had the gear for making giant bubbles, which I learned to use tolerably well and which became very popular with the teens and little kids.
And then later in the day, there was the Democrats Picnic, which I had promised to provide cookies (I baked chocolate chip cookies from scratch yesterday) and a sound system for (my sound system is modest, but turned all the way up to full it worked okay without being overpowering. This meant a certain amount of horsing around with simultaneously heavy and delicate equipment in the heat after already being in the heat for 3 hours during Pride, but I made it work and Chris helped with packing up.
The adjoining park building closed at 5, and what they hadn’t told us was that they weren’t going to leave us any way to use the bathrooms after that. So that was a thing that added a certain urgency to my impatience with Councilman Smiley’s tendency to chatter on and use up time that should have gone to his rival. This impatience was probably compounded by the fact that I’ve heard Smiley before; he talked to the local Dems this spring. And *that* time, when I asked him a softball question (basically he was telling about how he persuaded someone who was voting against some proposal of his to change their mind and vote for it, and I asked how he did it—specifically what changes he made to his proposal) I had to ask him THREE times before he answered the question. Oh, he *talked* the other two times—five or ten minutes each time as I recall—but didn’t answer the actual question. Anyway. His rival, Dr. Martin, may be new to politics but he gave a bang up speech and—bless him—got to the point in a timely way. I know who has my vote, unless something very surprising turns up in their policies or backgrounds.
Also, Kip is sick. He’s only been sick 2 days so there is no point testing for COVID, but we will test tomorrow. He’s not coughing hardly at all; sore throat and nausea have been the principal symptoms and he says he’s feeling somewhat better today than yesterday, but I am NOT psyched. Do NOT want; have no time to be sick; so much cleaning to do and I’m supposed to run my game tomorrow, so I’m not happy that I have a headache but maybe I am just dehydrated.
And then later in the day, there was the Democrats Picnic, which I had promised to provide cookies (I baked chocolate chip cookies from scratch yesterday) and a sound system for (my sound system is modest, but turned all the way up to full it worked okay without being overpowering. This meant a certain amount of horsing around with simultaneously heavy and delicate equipment in the heat after already being in the heat for 3 hours during Pride, but I made it work and Chris helped with packing up.
The adjoining park building closed at 5, and what they hadn’t told us was that they weren’t going to leave us any way to use the bathrooms after that. So that was a thing that added a certain urgency to my impatience with Councilman Smiley’s tendency to chatter on and use up time that should have gone to his rival. This impatience was probably compounded by the fact that I’ve heard Smiley before; he talked to the local Dems this spring. And *that* time, when I asked him a softball question (basically he was telling about how he persuaded someone who was voting against some proposal of his to change their mind and vote for it, and I asked how he did it—specifically what changes he made to his proposal) I had to ask him THREE times before he answered the question. Oh, he *talked* the other two times—five or ten minutes each time as I recall—but didn’t answer the actual question. Anyway. His rival, Dr. Martin, may be new to politics but he gave a bang up speech and—bless him—got to the point in a timely way. I know who has my vote, unless something very surprising turns up in their policies or backgrounds.
Also, Kip is sick. He’s only been sick 2 days so there is no point testing for COVID, but we will test tomorrow. He’s not coughing hardly at all; sore throat and nausea have been the principal symptoms and he says he’s feeling somewhat better today than yesterday, but I am NOT psyched. Do NOT want; have no time to be sick; so much cleaning to do and I’m supposed to run my game tomorrow, so I’m not happy that I have a headache but maybe I am just dehydrated.
