An Incomplete List of What I Learned At Conference

Oh, werd?
This weekend was "fake" conference in Ohio. About 40 canvassers gathered at an absolutely bizarre campground littered with seemingly abandoned RVs and staffed solely by stray cats and great danes to do a volunteer canvass and have a great party.
Here is a BRIEF list of what I learned:
1) The 'burb gets way better mileage when David is driving than when Eric is driving.
2) It takes 6 hours to get TO Ohio. But it takes 8 hours to get back. Weird...
3) You can see the Pleidies at night now.
4) You should vote YES to ballot issues 2-5 in Ohio.
5) Frozen chicken patties take a long time to grill.
6) It takes 7 canvassers to hang a tarp. It takes 4 to give directions to foreign turf. It takes 40 to finish three kegs.
7) There are no nuclear power plants in Indiana.
8) Great danes are scary when they are stray in the woods at night.
9) An 8 piece bucket of KFC costs 10.99. A 10 piece costs 8.99.
10) You *can* drink too much at conference.

Inspirational scene: So, we did a volunteer canvass in Ohio (see #4). It was drizzly when we crawled out of our tents in the morning. Everyone was a tad bleary-eyed as several of the offices had arrived only a few hours earlier and set up tents in the dark. Several canvassers huddled, trading jokes, around a sputtering fire and chewed on toasted bagels. Gradually, everyone trickled onto the covered pavillion on one side of the campground to receive instructions for the day's work. Some pulled on rain pants. Others adjusted bootlaces and wool hats. One sat with rain drops slowly growing and falling from the brim of his saturated trucker hat. No one complained. Everyone was ready to go. And, that, was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. 40 young people sitting in a cold drizzle, waiting for directions on how to canvass for an obscure off-year election ballot issue, for a state most of the us were not from, with no promise of compensation other than three kegs of good beer at the end of the night and a good party. That's democracy...