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I had intended to spend today at the beach reading over my manuscript, because there's a notice downstairs alleging that the water will be off in the daytimes for the next few days while they "change the pipes" (not sure what they mean by that but it sounds ominous); but the water's still on and the beach is turned off due to unacceptable bacteria levels, so I think I'll play videogames instead. Maybe tomorrow.
Dean Meetup last night; we are evidently up to some 80,000 Meetup-registrees for the Dean events, and it shows -- our area alone is now having to run four city and four suburban venues, and this month our Heartland Cafe branch meeting had swollen past the bar area's capacity and consumed the dining room space instead. Organizers seem pleased. The format has evolved into settling-down and intros, then announcements from organizers, and finally a Campaign Activity: last month's 'letters to Iowa' Activity was such a success, 30,000 letters nationwide with more than 1,000 from our own area Meetups, that this month we repeated it with the New Hampshire voters. Living in a state with the second-to-last primary, leaning on the early-primary voters is probably the only hope we here have of participating in the nomination process at all... The handwritten missives apparently went over well with the voters of Iowa, the feedback is allegedly quite positive. I only hope that my victims are the patient sort; I tried to be tidy, I did, but too many years of easy keyboard availability have rendered my already-atrocious script all but illegible even to me. At least this month we got a printed-up handout to send along that I could refer them to for the important points...
Dean Meetup last night; we are evidently up to some 80,000 Meetup-registrees for the Dean events, and it shows -- our area alone is now having to run four city and four suburban venues, and this month our Heartland Cafe branch meeting had swollen past the bar area's capacity and consumed the dining room space instead. Organizers seem pleased. The format has evolved into settling-down and intros, then announcements from organizers, and finally a Campaign Activity: last month's 'letters to Iowa' Activity was such a success, 30,000 letters nationwide with more than 1,000 from our own area Meetups, that this month we repeated it with the New Hampshire voters. Living in a state with the second-to-last primary, leaning on the early-primary voters is probably the only hope we here have of participating in the nomination process at all... The handwritten missives apparently went over well with the voters of Iowa, the feedback is allegedly quite positive. I only hope that my victims are the patient sort; I tried to be tidy, I did, but too many years of easy keyboard availability have rendered my already-atrocious script all but illegible even to me. At least this month we got a printed-up handout to send along that I could refer them to for the important points...