The battery in her car died. It’s winter, it’s cold, this is to be expected. She’s greatly upset by this. Let me explain what I’ve just spent the past hour doing, because I wouldn’t believe it myself otherwise. Take everything out of the car, she said–the car knows there’s stuff in it that’s not supposedContinue reading “On My Grandmother's Car”
Monthly Archives: December 2005
On Making December's Schedule
Nothing puts the month into perspective like making the store’s schedule through Christmas Eve. The schedule, at least two weeks out, isn’t set in stone. It’s a kind of guestimate, an ideal for how I want to schedule the store. There’s every possibility that the schedule for the week beginning the 18th will need someContinue reading “On Making December's Schedule”
On Not Being an Expert
To a random Google searcher: No, I don’t know who performs exorcisms in Colorado.
On Voting Machines
My voting precinct uses paper ballots. Odd paper ballots, to be sure–you use a black sharpie to connect two halves of an arrow to indicate your voting preferences–but still, paper ballots. With a paper trail. As my experience a year ago when I was nearly disenfranchised would indicate. But not all of North Carolina usesContinue reading “On Voting Machines”