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#1 Jun 09 2015 at 11:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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One thing I learn from my parents has been the importance of volunteering ones time for causes or events on cares for.
Guess I spend too much time as a volunteer, but then someone has to and you who don't, can know someone else, is stepping up to the plate.

As a Kid I spent every election year trying to get out the vote for candidates and causes that my family supported and ended up even being a campaign manager for my mother when she ran for office, while I was in High School. She dropped out of the race when the news papers kept switching her photo with another candidate she was friends with. They really did look alike and there were a total of 16 Democratic candidates for county council that year. Her friend did win a seat and later was County Executive. Mom went on to serve on State Library board and was state League of Woman Voters officer. I also served on the student council and was member of a county school board committee.

While kids were in school I volunteer in the classroom and served a year as PTA President, after helping the school get a PTA charter.

After I became ill I stopped helping out at the schools, then when my daughter dragged me to a SF club, I was sucker into volunteering my time again and again, until I earn a place on the Balticon committee working each convention and barely getting time to run into the dealers room to check out the books and friends jewelry.

This lead to me also volunteering at local Faerie Festival as the Queen Mother, of the Unseelie Court.

Now instead of volunteering all my extra time, I'm a vendor at Faerie Festival this year. My jewelry is in the Balticon Art Show every year while I still am a committee member who now has to herd cats, I mean other volunteers.

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#2 Jun 09 2015 at 11:34 AM Rating: Good
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I've volunteered to go to places like Peru and Bolivia to help build schools and clinics. Not actually building, I haven't done anything construction related since I was a kid for my Godfather. Security and such. That's probably the most notable example, beyond a soup kitchen and other similar adventures, but those were more to chase tail.
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#3 Jun 09 2015 at 1:38 PM Rating: Good
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Since I work in the legal field, it's really easy to volunteer my skills to the legal different clinics (and I develop different skill sets which is always good). So I've done work in immigration, criminal law, family law, and juvenile law. What I enjoy the most is seeing how people who have hit rock bottom, are still doing whatever they can to better their lives. Then I also enjoy the ones that live soap operaesque lives and those interviews are always filled with moments of WTF mirth.
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Used to back in the day but not so much lately with a longer commute and a preschooler in the mix. Now I volunteer by forcing the rich to pay higher taxes.
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Nexa is the co-chair of our town's Gimp Ramp Zoning committee. That's probably not the actual name, I'm not sure, but she gets to tour new town construction projects and tell them where the crippled people need extra handles or blind people need bumps in the sidewalk so they don't walk into rivers or whatever.

I don't work for free because I'm a capitalist hero.
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tell them where the crippled people need extra handles

On the sides so you can pick them up and move them out of your way.
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#8 Jun 10 2015 at 7:34 AM Rating: Good
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Heh, filter.

Edited, Jun 10th 2015 9:35am by lolgaxe
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#9 Jun 10 2015 at 8:13 AM Rating: Excellent
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What ya cripple or something? Go make your own sandwich. I'm busy working.
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#10 Jun 10 2015 at 7:10 PM Rating: Excellent
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Smasharoo wrote:
Nexa is the co-chair of our town's Gimp Ramp Zoning committee. That's probably not the actual name, I'm not sure, but she gets to tour new town construction projects and tell them where the crippled people need extra handles or blind people need bumps in the sidewalk so they don't walk into rivers or whatever.

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Well, I'm working on changing the name, but to be honest, it's been a surprisingly hard sell.

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#11 Jun 11 2015 at 2:42 AM Rating: Good
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Usually, as I'm walking through the schoolyard to go have a smoke in my lunch break, kids will ask me stupid questions. Sometimes, instead of telling them to sod off because I'm on break, I put on a smile and attempt to answer their constant stream of idiocy.

That counts, right?

But no, I don't do much volunteer work. I don't have time. I admire those who can muster the stamina or fortitude or whatever is used for it, but I need my alone time once I'm off work. Being around people 24/7 would make me crazy.
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#12 Jun 11 2015 at 6:41 AM Rating: Good
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Nexa wrote:
Smasharoo wrote:
Nexa is the co-chair of our town's Gimp Ramp Zoning committee. That's probably not the actual name, I'm not sure, but she gets to tour new town construction projects and tell them where the crippled people need extra handles or blind people need bumps in the sidewalk so they don't walk into rivers or whatever.

I don't work for free because I'm a capitalist hero.


Well, I'm working on changing the name, but to be honest, it's been a surprisingly hard sell.

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The ADA is pretty clear. It always surprises me how many construction firms need that clarified even more though.
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#13 Jun 12 2015 at 6:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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Uglysasquatch wrote:
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Smasharoo wrote:
Nexa is the co-chair of our town's Gimp Ramp Zoning committee. That's probably not the actual name, I'm not sure, but she gets to tour new town construction projects and tell them where the crippled people need extra handles or blind people need bumps in the sidewalk so they don't walk into rivers or whatever.

I don't work for free because I'm a capitalist hero.


Well, I'm working on changing the name, but to be honest, it's been a surprisingly hard sell.

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The ADA is pretty clear. It always surprises me how many construction firms need that clarified even more though.


It is, and yes, they do, but it's also nice to get in before they've done much and advise on best practices. In addition to accidental violations (usually do to the variety of contractors coming together, each with a compliant piece that goes into non-compliance when put together), there are also many instances when something meets the requirement but could be improved for a variety of reasons. Good example: touring an elementary school and all the braille signs are at the top of the limit for compliance for height...compliant, but not useful for children who can't reach them.

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#14 Jun 12 2015 at 7:17 AM Rating: Good
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Instead of ramps, you should insist on catapults.
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#15 Jun 12 2015 at 7:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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One building I worked in had signs at the elevator bank: "In case of emergency pull the yellow lever" - faithfully translated to Braille.

I mean, I get it; people only do what's mandated by law, not necessarily what makes sense. It just seems like the translation to Braille could have said, "the lever to the left" or some such.
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One building I worked in had signs at the elevator bank: "In case of emergency pull the yellow lever" - faithfully translated to Braille.

Was it next to the green lever that released hornets? Please tell me that it was.
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#19 Jun 12 2015 at 8:48 AM Rating: Good
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I volunteer my time with co-workers roughly semi-annually as a coordinated work event, but nothing on my own. There's just nothing I'm all that passionate about, except for educating the drunken masses on the merits of tacky 80's action movies.

Unless spending several hours every holiday dinner talking about anime and World of Warcraft with the autistic brother of a family friend counts as community service. It certainly feels like it.
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#20 Jun 12 2015 at 9:25 AM Rating: Decent
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One building I worked in had signs at the elevator bank: "In case of emergency pull the yellow lever" - faithfully translated to Braille.

Seems like sort of a mild bit of humor unless there are several levers.
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#21 Jun 12 2015 at 1:29 PM Rating: Good
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I volunteered to cut single track motorcycle tread way through third growth mature forest. It's an OHV designated forest and the trail was legit - the USFS would send specialists to approve my trail locations, slopes and grades. I painted the warming hut at Four Trees maybe 10-12 years ago - gratis time and materials. Here's a pic of the hut.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/72855538

And a satellite shot showing one of my trails crossing a township road at cords [ 39.829108, -121.240552 ] https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B049'44.8%22N+121%C2%B014'26.0%22W/@39.829108,-121.240552,844m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 and at this location [ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Little+North+Fork+Campground/@39.781831,-121.259962,852m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x809ce8005e52e56f:0x6746e4366e5d5c64!2sLittle+North+Fork+Campground!3m1!1s0x809ce8005e52e56f:0x6746e4366e5d5c64!6m1!1e1] I was menaced by two very aggressive Latino pot growers.

I cut trail starting in 1995 and took six-eight years to slash-out ten miles of awesome AA enduro track.. Sierra Club jerks messed with me for a while, but they were lazy old Euell Gibbons yuppy throwback poseurs, so my forest-murdering trail went forward as they kicked back drinking $9 cups of shade-grown coffee whilst modeling the newest in $350 organic hairshirts.

Once in a while the little guy still wins one.



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#22 Jun 13 2015 at 5:40 AM Rating: Excellent
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Samira wrote:
One building I worked in had signs at the elevator bank: "In case of emergency pull the yellow lever" - faithfully translated to Braille.

I mean, I get it; people only do what's mandated by law, not necessarily what makes sense. It just seems like the translation to Braille could have said, "the lever to the left" or some such.


I can one up that: In public building with significant daily traffic, they were replacing all the signage to conform with signage in similar buildings. However, they took down the old signs long before the new signs were ready...like, 2 months. No worries, in the meantime, they just hung up printouts of the new signs. Printouts of signs with braille.

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#23 Jun 13 2015 at 9:02 AM Rating: Excellent
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That is better! Smiley: laugh
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#24 Jun 13 2015 at 5:05 PM Rating: Good
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I can't tell if I should feel better that these people aren't actively malicious, just incredibly retarded.
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#25 Jun 13 2015 at 9:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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I don't think it's malicious. Mulish determination to do exactly what's required, whether it makes sense or not, perhaps.

What is that saying? Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity?

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#26 Jun 13 2015 at 9:29 PM Rating: Good
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That's what I said.
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