Civic and technical responsibilities
Today is Monday, or as we call it in Canada, Election Day. Mind you, that title applies specifically to this date; next week we revert to normal usage. And yes, the polls opened on schedule. It took me some digging into the twisted terminology of the Canada Election Act. Did you know that if this was Tuesday, and we were holding elections, we would have to pretend that it was Monday?
The Act contains dozens of such tidbits; you can read the whole thing here once you’ve finished with every other book in the world.
Anyhow, we managed to get our votes cast before noon, without incident. I learned how to hold a lead pencil almost sixty years ago, and it still serves me as a necessary skill from time to time. I will probably never encounter an electronic voting machine in my lifetime. And with our civic duty out of the way, we moved on to more pressing tasks.
The local campground hasn’t gone into winter shutdown, yet, so we went for the “final dump” of this season. Again, without incident (thankfully). I didn’t want to face the perils of frozen waste. Back home, I enjoyed a sunny afternoon to get the winterization done on the RV. Those notes I had made, a year ago, were very practical. I knew the what and where of each step, and within a couple of hours I could stow the hand pump and the wrench, and take solace in knowing that any burst pipes would be due to exceptional circumstances, rather than oversight. Now to wait for the polls to close so I can discover the possible direction my tax bills will take over the next while.
