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2) Associate you with a song/movie
3) Tell a random fact about you
4) Tell a first memory about you
5) Associate you with an animal/fruit
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7) In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ

I finally got my General Election Voter Information Guide today for the elections next month. I've been looking through the propositions, and although some are no-brainers, I'm having a hard time deciding which way to go on some of these. So I thought I'd turn to you all and see if you had any strong feelings about any of these

NO * 1A - Protection of Transportation Funding
* 1B - Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security
* 1C - Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund Act of 2006
* 1D - Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006
* 1E - Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Act of 2006
NO * 83 - Comprehensive Registered Sex Offender Laws (popularly known as "Jessica's Law")
* 84 - Bonds for clean water, flood control, state and local park improvements, etc.
NO * 85 - Parental Notification before Termination of Teen's Pregnancy
* 87 - Funding for alternative forms of energy
* 88 - Property Parcel Tax to fund for Education
* 89 - Campaign Finance Restrictions, including a corporate tax increase
* 90 - Eminent Domain Restrictions

As you can see, I have quite a bit of reading left. Any of you have some strong views or reasoned arguments about any of these?

I'm sure at least one of you can recommend a CD ripping software that works on Windows. Right? Because I just realized that Books-on-Tape are wonderful, except that I own neither a working portable tape player nor a working portable CD player. On the other hand, MP3s are portable, and there is this Treo 650 that claims to play them & lives in my pocket.

Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders are editing an anthology of essays titled She’s Such a Geek, and they're looking for submissions from people like us (well, those of us who can write).

While I never had the nerve, or time, to attempt NaNoWriMo, I am very tempted by writing something for this anthology. Anyone want to get together and ponder topics & maybe even write together? I'm a much better editor than writer. The deadline is January 15, 2006.

Edit: link fixed. duh!

I need to find folks who are skilled labor in these areas, and would be willing to help me out for money:

1. Sewing (fairly basic: pillows, curtains, etc.)
2. Gardening: Would love to get someone who would like to love my yard and make this better.
3. Cleaning: I don't like our current cleaning lady, and would love to find someone better.
4. Handy-person-ing: Just the little stuff that needs to get done.
5. Maybe, if someone can recommend, cooking. I would love to eat healthier, but I don't have the mental space/time/interest to make cooking anything but a chore.

Hm, I don't think I'm very domestic. What I really want is a housewife-type person for hire, it seems.

Oh, and if you have a contractor you can recommend, I still need someone to help with redoing the kitchen. I would actually seriously pondering doing a bigger remodel if I found a contractor I trusted.