I' ve got dual nationality too. I leave Venezuela with my Venezuelan passport, and travel everywhere else with my British. No problem at all.
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Brilliant, thank you.
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So the day started as normal until the wife came upstairs and said the cars dead as s dodo. Ok, clear my head. Got dressed and got my car from garage and backed up to her car. While hooking up jumper leads I put my glasses down on the floor of the back of my wagon. Boot/trunk was up to access battery. Started her car , unhooked leads and slammed boot down. Oops. Glasses were there. Yip flattened. Nuts.
Sorting out battery prices
Sorting prices for glasses repair. I only need glasses for distance. Dont know why I had them on??.
Hope it gets better??
Russ
Sorting out battery prices
Sorting prices for glasses repair. I only need glasses for distance. Dont know why I had them on??.
Hope it gets better??
Russ
Ouch, glasses are expensive. Plus, if your battery is in the passenger compartment (boot of your wagon), it needs to be special, so it doesn't off-gas hydrogen into the car. My Audi battery is in the back, under my spare tire. I can only buy that battery from Audi.
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rascal
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Ouch, glasses are expensive. Plus, if your battery is in the passenger compartment (boot of your wagon), it needs to be special, so it doesn't off-gas hydrogen into the car. My Audi battery is in the back, under my spare tire. I can only buy that battery from Audi.
CD
Yeah in back left panel by tail light. Gas hydrogen?? Not sure what that is??
Holden (gm) parts are readily available here.
Russ
Lead acid batteries generate a small amount of hydrogen gas. Under the hood (bonnet) of the car, they disperse. Inside a passenger compartment, they don't.
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Didn't know that. Cheers. The car is back in the garage. Learn something every day.
Russ
Early voting for our November 7th election started this week, so we’re planning on going over today and voting, since we’ll be out of the country until just before that. Small ballot, off-year election, but two big issues this time around.
One is legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Not that big a deal to me, as we already have it legal in our state for medicinal use, and it seems like most anyone who wants to use it has managed to get a prescription, despite best efforts of our conservative state government to make that process as difficult as possible.
The big issue, garnering nationwide coverage, is that we’re attempting to get the right to abortion added into our state constitution. We’re (currently) considered a red state, so the state government opposes the issue, but other times the issue has gone on the ballot, allowing the people (and not the legislatures) to decide one way or the other, it’s gone for pro-choice, even in red states.
Pro-choice folks are cautiously optimistic, because an earlier ballot issue, specifically designed to make this ballot issue harder to pass, failed back in August, so it’s going to be interesting to see which way this goes.
One is legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Not that big a deal to me, as we already have it legal in our state for medicinal use, and it seems like most anyone who wants to use it has managed to get a prescription, despite best efforts of our conservative state government to make that process as difficult as possible.
The big issue, garnering nationwide coverage, is that we’re attempting to get the right to abortion added into our state constitution. We’re (currently) considered a red state, so the state government opposes the issue, but other times the issue has gone on the ballot, allowing the people (and not the legislatures) to decide one way or the other, it’s gone for pro-choice, even in red states.
Pro-choice folks are cautiously optimistic, because an earlier ballot issue, specifically designed to make this ballot issue harder to pass, failed back in August, so it’s going to be interesting to see which way this goes.
I remember the legal gymnastics the Ohio legislature went through to try to kill that ballot initiative. That failed, so maybe this constitutional amendment will pass.
CD
I can tell there’s some desperation on behalf of the anti-choice folks, after seeing similar measures pass in other solidly red states, because their ads shifted away from the question of life (is it or isn’t it) and they’re now framing it as a parental rights issue, and dragging LGBTQ+ rights into it.I remember the legal gymnastics the Ohio legislature went through to try to kill that ballot initiative. That failed, so maybe this constitutional amendment will pass.
CD
Parental rights to those folks only apply to the "right" parents. It's part of their "pick-and-choose" method of applying "god's laws."
CD
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Voting here today to change the gooberment. I'm predicting a right wing coalition. We usually go to my old primary school. Gilberthorpe school.
Vege shopping.
Russ
Vege shopping.
Russ
Here, if we vote on the day, we go to the local high school, set up in some big assembly room, though I’ve never seen more than 10 people in there voting.
Previous years, we’ve voted at the fire station.
Ever since they allowed early voting here, which we almost always take advantage of, we’ve either had to go to the county courthouse, or to a little government substation to vote, in a room about half the size of my kitchen. It holds four little individual voting stands, and a small table to check in, and one vote scanner once you’re done filling out your paper ballot.
Early or on Election Day, my polling place is always Collin College in Frisco. No lines, in and out in 15 minutes. That's how it is in the white suburbs. Inner city polling is different. 10 voting machines for every 2,000 people is more the norm, there. The Texas legislature knows who should vote, and who shouldn't, and makes no effort to hide it.
CD
I think I’ve waited in line twice since moving to Ohio, both before early voting was allowed. Usually, even on the day, it’s walk in, walk out.
The one time I had to wait was in 2020, covid, and that’s because they were letting one person in at a time to vote, because the room is so small, and the person I was waiting on…MrsT.
We used to have to vote absentee when we were overseas, and that’s the only time I ever worried whether my vote would count, just because it’s pretty easy to lose things in the mail.