There's nothing much organised for today. I want to the gym as usual this morning and went through my routine. It's becoming more comfortable and I've upped the repetitions of each exercise from 8 to 12 and increased the resistance as well. You can see how professional I'm becoming and how my vocabulary is improving. I'd normally talk about 'reps' rather than 'repetitions' but I realised this note could be read by an audience unused to the vocabulary of the gym.
Marilyn and I did our 'training' yesterday for our job working at the count following the election. We discovered that the correct term is 'scrutiny' because most of the actual counting is done immediately after the close of polls on Saturday night. What we do is scrutinise the votes to make sure they're valid and re-count to ensure accuracy.
The training was done on-line and consisted of a series of statements and questions. It all seemed a bit contrived because what do we need to know before we get involved in the low-level job of counting? So, we were given information about the various sections of the layout with names like BPSSZ, BPSWZ and BPSHZ. We found out the relevance of the different coloured vests that people wear (red is particularly important) and we were told the acronyms for the various computer programs used by the AEC. ELMS is the management system, RMANS looks after the roll and ECL is responsible for the lists of voters.
We both passed and now feel fully equipped for the task ahead. Funny, nobody has asked if we can count up to 20.
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