Our life in our city.
Yesterday was year three that Chad and I attended the City of Alexandria’s birthday celebration, which I’ve written about before. Every year we enjoy the concert by the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra (this year’s theme was movie music), the fireworks, and the cannon fire support. However, this year I brought my camera and tripod –...
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Until this year, I don’t think I had ever heard the term Thundersnow (which I still haven’t witnessed). I’m also pretty sure that ‘snowpacolype’ just recently joined the local lexicon. I know that the amount of snow we’re getting right now happens in a lot of part of the world I’d really rather not...
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Yesterday morning I once again got up early enough to make it to the Lee Center by 5am. Since the polls open at 6am, we need the hour to set up the electronic voting machines and poll books, and make sure the room is situated the way we want it. We had a total...
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Shortly after starting work at Halfaker & Associates, I started biking to our Shirlington office. It was a really easy decision. I could get in a good work out, save on wear, tear and gas for the car, enjoy the beautiful Spring weather (well, once it got here), and get to know some of...
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I just got a call from someone at the Alexandria Board of Elections. I’ll be training for the May 3 Elections (Mayoral, City Council and School Board). Apparently, the bulk of our training will be the use of electronic poll books. I’m so excited! Hopefully, this will seriously cut down on check in time...
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Chad and I did not end up going to the National Mall like we thought we might. The pictures of Sunday’s crowd and the below freezing temperatures kept us out of the district. Luckily, the City of Alexandria had other options for us. We started walking in the cold towards Old Town a little...
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I started thinking about the 2010 deciannual US Census back while the presidential election was in full swing. There was plenty of talk about which states would stay blue or red or which might swing in November according to the people there. I kept thinking: “well, we don’t really know who’s where.” We can...
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According to our rough calculations (readily produced from my Treo’s calculator), when our precinct closed last night, we had helped 91 percent of registered voters assigned to the Lee Center vote. But that was the end, I should start at the beginning. My alarm went off at 4:15 am, and after a sleepy shower...
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It’s true! I got a button and a parking pass and a bunch of training. I am now ready to help Alexandrians (at my precinct) vote. My first impression of training was “wow, I’m not the youngest person here.” I usually think of civic minded retirees when I think of poll workers (because that’s...
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So, I just got back from the Alexandria Election Official Open House. Basically, there were a bunch of election officials at each step of the vote casting process, showing people how to use the machines. There was a pretty steady stream of people, and while the hosting officals where in the 50+ crowd, some...
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