This Georgia voter's 2022 in-person vote

**After 8 days since Cobb Cty elections office says they issued our absentee ballots, they still hadn't come. Checking with  them, they advised to vote in person. We live 3/4 mile from the Gov't Center where they do "Advance Voting." Every time we've driven past it, there have been long lines and traffic congestion. Son Pete waited a long time a couple days ago. 

Today, about 9:15am we drove over there and saw that though there were lots of cars and a full parking lot, there were no long lines of people outside the building. I let Joan off to get a place in line while I went to hunt for a parking place. As I was waiting in the lot, a woman walked past and indicated she would be vacating the parking place ahead, 5 spaces from the entrance to the lot! 

As she backed out, I saw a Warnock sticker on her bumper. Good sign.

Went to the entrance and was admitted right away, where I joined Joan.  

A poll worker came by and announced that those over 75 should go to the front of the line and have a seat. 

Within 5 minutes we were getting our voting cards processed. 5 minutes after that we'd voted and acquired our stickers:

Even if I'd had my usual 11am swim time, I would have made it. I've got a couple more hours this morning, some of which I'm using to chronicle this easiest voting experience ever.

And, to give due credit, the process was smooth and cheery. At least at the Government Center on Lower Rowell Road in East Cobb.

Forking the Gullible

**  Finally listened to Life Lessons podcast with Gin Stephens. #104 "Healing with Vibrational Therapy with Eileen McKusick" - As I'd feared, this type of program is extremely susceptible to wu-wu. It's a skeptics's game preserve! Claiming to be "based in science," it is the classic selective collecting of evidence to support a pre-determined thesis. 

This woman sells tuning forks and therapies based on them and the hosts, Gin and Sherri, nod approvingly and gush with approval, neither of them being a scientist, nor apparently a skeptic. Hesitating to post this on one of her youtube vids: 

There is NO scientific basis for anything you sell or promote.Like acupuncture, crystals, tarot cards and the lot. I pity the poor saps who fall for your pitch. Like all scam artists, your "research" consists of selectively assembling scraps of real information in order to support your preferred thesis, while ignoring those that invalidate it.

A Blog for the Ages?

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Having passed my first year of practicing Intermittent Fasting as a lifestyle, I feel I've learned enough to offer support and information especially relevant to older people. While there are examples on other platform of elderly fasters having great success, it's a mixed bag. Many issues with older folks aren't addressed in those forums. I hope to provide that support, authenticated by my own octogenarian status and success with this lifestyle change. 

While weight issues are common among the elderly, there often are other issues with more urgency. These center around health and quality of life. A common mindset of the elderly is the sense of impending doom, which includes a variety of other factors, such as the absence of hope, and fear of the future, a yielding to resignation that often expresses itself as disregard for oneself, both in appearance and in health. I hope to counter this mindset with information on how Intermittent Fasting participates in the human body's own mechanisms for survival to reverse many of the debilities associated with the elderly. It's not a "fountain of youth," so much as a fountain for the hopefulness of youth.