I voted today

This year on Election Day, I will be spending many many hours at a Salt Lake County polling location to assist all of those Americans exercising their right to vote that day. I have the job of working with the fancy touch-screens used by Utah voters, and trying to keep them from breaking, while helping people to be sure that they completed their vote correctly. While I have already learned a lot from the 4 hours of training that was provided for this job, it will be an interesting day for me. I hope to at least discover if the county clerk's office made the right choice in hiring several hundred people without asking for reference or ever meeting them. We shall see.

So, today I cast my absentee ballot and then took this incredibly attractive picture of myself, and realized a couple of things. One being that it wouldn't be a bad idea for me to actually notice what my hair looks like in the middle of the day and try to do something about it. More importantly though, that even though sometimes the choices we are given are like choosing between eating dirt and eating something worse, it is still better to make our own choice and not wait around for someone else to make it for us.

Get out the vote.