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<\/a><\/div>\nTomorrow is precinct caucus day here. That assures entertainment for the evening as I attend my local precinct caucus meeting. The caucii (which sounds better that caucuses even if wrong) <\/i>don’t have a huge impact on local office seekers like me. The caucuses feed into the county caucus which does little beyond determining ballot listing order for the primary ballot for local offices. So all the effort and dirty work and fund raising and … come up in June and July. Looks to be fun.<\/p>\n (For those who don’t remember, I threw my hat into the ring for the office of county commissioner a while back. It is my first foray into partisan politics. Non-partisan political offices like mayor just require the signature of 50 voters and then waiting for the election. It’s a bit different once the donkey and elephant get involved.)<\/i><\/p>\n Back to preparing documents for a Thursday meeting related to construction of our new facility (for my day job as executive director of the humane society)<\/i>. I’ll leave you with a quip I heard on during a conference call today:<\/p>\n Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Can you tell I’ve been talking to construction contractors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A dreary day today, especially as L departed back to the mountains this morning. Not only is Molly dog laying around looking like the world has ended, it was drear and overcast until this afternoon when the sun peaked out. I love the oddity of the weather at this time of year. Saturday was warm … Continue reading Manic Monday<\/span> <\/a><\/div>\n