Personal
Personal reflections, comments about things I've been doing, etc.
Thanksgiving Eve
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 11/24/2004 - 18:36I woke in the middle of the night and couldn't sleep. I spent some time surfing Blog Explosion, and catching up on my emails.
Today was not especially productive. I did spend some time working with the new version of CivicSpace, and played a little with Media Wiki.
Blue Highways, Blue America
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 11/19/2004 - 18:59Surfing with BlogExplosion, I found this blog entry.
'You Know You're From Maine When...'
It is the perfect illustration of the East Coast Liberal Elitism that I think we need more of in the Democratic Party.
Caught up
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 11/08/2004 - 14:34For the first time in nearly two weeks, I have nothing in my inbox. This is actually quite an accomplishment. I normally get over a hundred emails a day, so if I miss a few days or if the volume is particularly heavy, it is easy to fall way behind.
The past couple weeks have seen both things happen. I’ve been taking time off for family; going to see my daughter play field hockey and going out trick or treating. I’ve spent a lot of time doing politics; organizing literature drops and get out the vote efforts.
Kim's Victory
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 11/03/2004 - 10:31Last night was a trying night for us. We had been up since four or five in the morning, standing at the polls and running a GOTV effort out of our house. It was hard work, but it was a lot of fun.
We were hoping that the results would be coming in fairly early, and we went to Greenwich headquarters first. Unfortunately, the results were slow in coming in. A friend called us and said that she had seen on the television that Kim had gotten 49% of the vote. We were very excited, because the Republicans outnumber the Democrats two to one. As the more Republican areas started reporting, the numbers dropped to 35%. In the end we believe Kim got about 38% of the vote.
Election Day
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 11/02/2004 - 05:55It is four thirty in the morning. The cat woke me up asking for an early breakfast. Our alarm clocks are set to go off at five, so I figured I am up for the duration, and a long duration I expect it to be.
It feels a lot like Christmas right now, all of the planning and anticipation. I was up last night getting the house all prepared and decorated for today's Get Out the Vote activities.
There was a meeting last night at the local Democratic Headquarters on how to run an effective GOTV effort, and they run a great operation in Stamford.
I've been spending a lot of time at headquarters, so I'm way behind on email, blog entries, and general online socializing.
