{"id":2435,"date":"2018-10-28T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2018-10-28T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T00:30:21","slug":"sample-ballot-pumpkin-make-a-difference-day-trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/28\/sample-ballot-pumpkin-make-a-difference-day-trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample ballot – pumpkin – make a difference day – trick or treat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got my sample ballot printed out recently and did my due diligence in researching the candidates. \u00a0\u00a0I had pretty simple criteria as I visited their websites – dividing them neatly into \u201cvote for\u201d and \u201clunatic\u201d. \u00a0Well, maybe not quite like that.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have my notes ready and I\u2019ll be heading to the polls early on election day. \u00a0I considering doing the early voting, but the process when I did that before seemed\u2026 eh. \u00a0A little too casual, maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a recent staff meeting, I made a small cube-shaped jack o’lantern out of orange paper and left it on the table when I left. \u00a0One of my coworkers saw this, loved it, emailed me, and asked if I could make some for her daughter\u2019s preschool class. She requested 19 of them on a Tuesday and needed them by Thursday so she could deliver them on Friday. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I agreed – figuring I\u2019d do twenty so she could have one too – then did the math. \u00a0Each cube is 6 modules in orange with a seventh in green for the stem. Times 20\u2026 140 pieces of paper folded. \u00a0In two days. Plus assembly and drawing a face on each one.<\/span><\/p>\n

I bought the orange paper I needed Tuesday night and got all of them cut – plus 10 cubes and stems done. \u00a0I also made a stencil for the faces. On Wednesday, I finished up the folding and got them assembled and finished.\u00a0 Delivered Thursday – on time. Looking forward to the pictures of the kids getting them. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In other folding news\u2026 I participated in a Make a Difference Day event on campus where I taught students to fold some origami ornaments. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most of the students there were making ornaments from kits, but a few joined me for a little folding. As we went along, a couple of them starting teaching other students that joined in. \u00a0And they divided up the labor – one guy cutting paper and another folding right up to where the designs diverged. <\/span><\/p>\n

We made a ton of ornaments in a couple hours and two of the students wanted my contact info for future projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tonight was trick-or-treat in Akron. \u00a0Two years ago, I missed it entirely. It was on a weird day or something. \u00a0\u00a0Last year, I bah-humbugged my way past it with dark porch lights and a scowl.<\/span><\/p>\n

This year, though, I bought several bags of candy and determined the day well in advance. \u00a0It was from 5-7 and by 4:50 I was on the porch with a chair, an origami pumpkin, a bowl of candy (with more in reserve) and a book.<\/span><\/p>\n

Took a bit for the kids to start showing up and many of them were in large groups. \u00a0There were some kids that were maye a little too old for trick or treating and many didn\u2019t have much in the way of costumes. \u00a0And one girl had a torn grocery bag for her treats – I wanted to maybe get her a new one, but she was gone before I could say something. <\/span><\/p>\n

It was cold and raining and not quite as magical as when I was a kid, but I gave away a lot of candy and most of the kids said thank you – even if many forgot the \u201cTrick or Treat\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have a little candy left over to take to work to share, so, everyone wins.<\/p>\n

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I got my sample ballot printed out recently and did my due diligence in researching the candidates. \u00a0\u00a0I had pretty simple criteria as I visited their websites – dividing them neatly into \u201cvote for\u201d and \u201clunatic\u201d. \u00a0Well, maybe not quite like that. I have my notes ready and I\u2019ll be heading to the polls early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}