So, it’s hump day. It appears that my internal clock has decided that 4:30 is plenty late to sleep in. Actually it would have had me get up even earlier, but I’m stubborn. I’m finding life to be quite tedious these days, and I think that’s got a lot to do with not drinking beer. I may be saving money, but there’s a empty void in my life. I’m also wrestling with this whole putting in an offer on a new house thing. I haven’t gone through this hoo-hah in about 20 years, at which point I bought a two-family home with a friend of mine so we could live in one flat and rent out the other. Sadly, we were both rather stupid and naive, and, while it wasn’t a horrible experience, we paid more than we should have, had lots to do to fix the place up, had the neighborhood go from not-too-bad to kinda crappy, and eventually had to pay money to walk out. Needless to say, I’m rather reluctant to repeat that experience.
As it stands right now, the sellers say they’re willing to move “some” on their price (but “not a whole lot”), while I need them to move “a lot” in order to justify the years of work it’s gonna take to get the place into shape. Hell, there’s still a shitload of work to do on the current place. Oh well.
So, I didn’t pay much attention to yesterday’s primary, but I see that St. John McCain trounced the teabagger nut he was running against. And the Meek may not have inherited the Earth, but he appears to have inherited the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Florida. Let’s hope he can manage to be the first black Senator from FL come November (I think with the Republicans at least theoretically split between Crist and Rubio, he’s at least got to have a chance).
The NY MTA is considering a fare increase to $130 for a monthly MetroCard (it’s $89 a month now). It’s not actually ‘monthly’ though, as they sell them as 30-day unlimited use. That’s $4.33 a day, and if you only use them to commute five days a week (at an average of 21.67 working days a month – 52*5/12), that would be more like $5.97 a day. Of course, it’ll hurt those who can least afford to pay more for the privilege of going to work the most, but then that’s how the world works, I guess.
Oh well, I think it’s time to go and do what it takes to get out the door.
Fuck you North Seattle
My daughter, her husband, my granddaughter, their 112 lb dog and cat have joined us for a week. That makes 5 people, 5 cats and 2 dogs. the dogs love to wrestle and chase each other, especially in the living room. The cats seem to be enjoying taunting and hissing at one another. But, I like having them here anyway.
:pup: :pup: :cat: :billcat: :cat: :billcat: :cat: :dancers: :blues:
The local “pundits” (I use quotes because if their punditry was worth a shit, they wouldn’t be local) are crowing about polls taken YESTERDAY that show Meek running behind Rubio and Crist. That’s a temporary condition. Rubio is way too fascist for most people in urban areas, and Crist’s star is going to fade as he tries to raise money with no party apparatus behind him.
Few people thought Meek could defeat Jeff Greene and his $30 million out-of-pocket funding. Try 23 percentage points, suckas. On to November!
And the best part: no more daily robo calls from Yacht Boy.
Tweety does a pretty good job on Lazio and he even shows the famous moment in the Hillary/Lazio debate when Lazio demanded she sign some paper.
I saw that Lazio thing twice yesterday for some reason. Sometimes Tweety’s attack like that is annoying but it was just right with that excuse. I just wish they had the exact quote on the screen that Lazio has been twisting and turning.
Tweety never absolutely nails it, but we have to take what we can get. I was sorry he didn’t have the sources and quotes that Lazio claimed had Rauf comparing the US unfavorably to Al Qaeda. And, he never asked Lazio for the source either.
Nine Southern states joined by Delaware forced ratification (of womens’ suffrage)to a halt, one state short. Only Tennessee was left, and the opposition had good reason to think it would line up with the rest of the region. But after a nine-day special session in the heat of August 1920, a legislator pledged to the nays jumped ship — he later said it was because his mother told him to — and the 36th state was in.
Even then, in several Southern states, die-hards went to court to invalidate the amendment, stopping only after the Supreme Court in 1922 unanimously dismissed their arguments.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/opinion/25stansell.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Emily wells at the triple door
I recorded this a couple hours ago.
Recorded this too. You could probably tell I did it just by the poor sound quality.