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A little bit late, but I voted AND wrote today, so I’m excited!
It’s day 2 of NaNoWriMo and I think my timeliness will be a factor this month. It may, or may not be after midnight, but I’m determined to stay on track this time, this year. Today was election day and this is the first time that I actually voted in person on election day. Usually, I early vote at the county, or do absentee ballots. My voting precinct wasn’t actually that bad. There were plenty of booths to vote in, the only bottleneck to the process was that there were only two people working to check people in to pull the ballots. When I early voted last year for the…
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Life Update
I've had a few life updates, including my decision to stop streaming, my Patreon, as well as my decision to start designing websites for small businesses.
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National School Walkout Day
National School Walkout Today, April 20, 2018, students and educators across the country are participating in the National School Walkout. This day is all about finding ways to secure our schools, and help them be safe learning environments. That’s all any of us want to be, is to keep schools as a safe, sacred place. There are a lot of politics involved, and although I don’t shy away from discussing what I feel and believe, that isn’t what this post is about. I’m not focused on any particular bill, or people fighting for their second amendment right. If you believe in something, fight for it. So, that’s what…
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