> get lamp

According to the Registrar of Voters website, my mail-in ballot was not counted; it was not even received. enotsola's was, and it was put in the same drop-off box one day after mine. I don't get how that could have happened. There was little so contested that my single vote could have made a difference (maybe the district members of the Democratic party committee, for which you could vote for 6 out of more than a dozen and some people were separated by only 20 votes last I looked), but it makes me wonder about every other ballot in that box on the same day, and really does not help my trust in the process -- this was the first time all voters received a mail-in ballot whether they were previously registered vote-by-mail or not, and the first time in my life I didn't go to the polling place to vote. Guess what I won't be doing again.

eta 3/7/20: They found me. Still, I'm not left feeling very good about the whole thing.

"I don’t always litter in the woods, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis."

pfeh.

(we picked up this and some other trash found around the creek and took it all to the garbage/recycling bins in the picnic area.)

It's 78 degrees in here and the heat is still on. WHY THE FUCK IS THE HEAT ON. IT'S ALMOST 70 now, 2 hours later, ALMOST 73 OUTSIDE. I remember being told once that the HVAC in this building was controlled by outside temp*, not inside temp, which I always thought was dumb, but APPARENTLY IT'S NOT THAT EITHER.

This has been going on for something like two months. I'm sure it's appropriate for the heat to run in the early morning, maybe even until 9 or 9:30. But when I come in at 11 it's been averaging 75 degrees and then the heat's been staying on all afternoon until the whole system switches off at 5:00. Except Monday when it was warm and it actually seemed to switch to vent if not actual a/c sometime in the early afternoon and I was like oh well maybe it'll work properly now maybe they just have it set for the rest of the building (which is often unreasonably cold in many places, don't get me wrong - the HVAC in this building is ill-designed) but it's as warm as that today and THE HEAT IS STILL ON.

Did I mention that this is after some Plant Services guy already came and fiddled around with it back on Feburary 7th (with no explanation of what he was doing, or any indication he knew just what it was we had complained about)?

GRAAAH SMASH

edit 2 PM: I've had the outside door open for not quite 2 hours. Briefly, at about 1 pm, there was blessedly cool air coming out of that vent but between then ant 1:30 it switched back to heat (despite the outside temp still rising) and it's heat now, which appears to be overtaking the ability of the outside air to cool the room, since there's not much of a temperature difference.

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* And partly also the calendar; there was never a/c before they had done yearly service on it and apparently the powers that be decided it was never needed until May when in fact we really needed it beginning around March. A room full of about 80 live humans and CRT monitors, as my work space was then, gave off a lot of heat. (This is a different office I'm complaining about now: two people and their LCD screens in a fairly large square footage, so no appreciable source of excess heat.)