caution

I just called my dentist's office and rescheduled my dental deep cleaning from tomorrow to October 21st. I probably don't have Covid, in fact probably don't have any sort of infection, but this isn't the time to bet on "probably" for a non-urgent procedure that has to be done with my mask off. Also because the office isn't in walking distance, so in addition to having to be maskless for the actual dental cleaning, I'd be interacting with Lyft drivers. Masked and with windows open, but still not a risk worth taking.

I'm doing this because of a dry cough and some congestion Monday night, a little bit of dry cough last night, and slight congestion this morning. I took my temperature this morning right after waking up, and got 96.2°F.

phone banking, Florida this time

I asked cattitude to lend me a phone headset for today's calls; it turned out he'd bought two, one of which is now mine. Not having to hold the phone was easier on my hand, but the earbud headphones got uncomfortable after a while (as such things usually do). These came with four different-size covers; I started with the largest, at cattitude's suggestion, because those are what he uses, and am going to experiment with the others.

Today's phone banking was to a different location (Broward County, FL) and a different phone list manager/dialer, and the zoom training session dragged a bit. But I was able to talk to a couple of people in between the wrong numbers and voicemail. As with the Maine calls, I can log in and make calls on my own as well as when they're doing an organized phone bank. This script is more about signing people up to vote by mail, whereas the Maine calls are "vote for these candidates, and voting by mail is easy."

SwingLeft, who are organizing these phone banks, say we can call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern time; I'm not going to be calling people that early, especially on the weekend, but 10:30 or 11 seems plausible.

I'm trying to make at least a few calls almost every day; I'm not going to post unless there's something more interesting than "another day of phone banking, Maine again"