INTERESTING TIMES

 I've never been terribly confident with numbers. As I grew older and realized my memory was better than adequate,confidence grew.  Still,I was always glad for someone else to present the numbers.

Then experience taught me I had to use my own resources there as well. 

Last week-end, people voted at the advance polls and media told us the percentage each day. First day 26%, second 34%,I never caught the third but it seemed likely to have reached 40%.

It occurred to me ,since turn-out is never 100% , that high advance vote must mean the election was all over bar the shouting. The last week of campaigning is a waste of everybody's time. 

It didn't seem right.The leaders were working harder than ever. More ads being churned out. Campaign officials with fingers on the pulse twenty-four-seven. Media working itself into a gesticulating frenzy.

Trudeau's campaign co-chair got caught with fingers dabbling in the cookie jar which reminded all of sponsorship scandals in Chretien's time that brought Paul Martin down and gave us Harper's Party.

Was there still time for disaster to strike any one of the three? It seemed maybe.

Wikipedia  is like The Oracle in pagan times. Priests went in to the temple to obtain answers for problems.

In Wikipedia I found numbers entitled to vote in previous elections. Half a million increase in each election brought me to a  current figure  of almost twenty-seven million. 

3.4 million were reported to have voted already. How could the calculation have been 26% on the first day. 

26% of what? Obviously I missed something.

Since broadenung the focus of the blog, statistics have become a factor. I don't know what to make of

them

American visits now top Canadian by 3 sometimes 400. It was opposite before. 

France comes next,then Russia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands,Indonesia.  Romania and Vietnam complete the list . The U.K. and Ireland vanished from the screen then returned. . 

Totals have more than doubled . Blocking  spam changed nothing. I thought visits might include robots firing out promotions.

A particular post has been read over seventeen hundred times. The one about unknown impact of social media on the future. It had a snippet of what  life was like for my grandparents and for my great grandchildren now.  I said we can't  know how social media  might change their future.

Isla  my great-grand-daughter is not yet three. She has taught herself ballet poses from a video. I can watch her and her two younger sisters progress every day on the iPad. How great is that?

Last Sunday before I got home from the family gathering ,photos of two of them on my knees on the scooter competing for control of the controls, were waiting for me on Facebook. 

Their memories will really be photographic, amply supported with photographs of events.

It must make a difference. 

It sure does to me.