Well, it’s here. Labor Day, and the unofficial last day of summer. All that shit you were gonna get done this summer? If you’re like me (you have my condolences), you got a few things accomplished, got a lot of things half-ass done, and left a lot of other things on the “to do” list. I now have a much longer list of shit to do, which includes everything that needs to get done (soon) around here, and a monster load of shit to get done at the new place.

Toward that end, I went out and bought $1,000 worth of goat fencing, gates, and posts on Saturday, which I’m storing out at my sister’s place until we close on the new place. I’m also eagerly perusing the used tractor listings (I’ve all but decided to buy a farm-type tractor with a front loader and a finish mower attachment instead of a plow truck and lawn tractor). By the time I close, there won’t be much lawn cutting left to do, but I’ll be needing something for snow removal in a hurry, and a shovel just isn’t gonna cut it (it’s about a 150 foot driveway into a pretty massive parking area and huge three-car garage). It’s very white out where I’m moving (not just the snow – they get quite a bit more of that out there than what we see here – but the demographics as well, with the population of 1,800 or so people being 97.5% White; according to the most recent statistics, there are 18 Hispanics, 6 Black folks, and 5 Asians).

The President is out on the road, touting his economic recovery plan. That’s a pretty tough sell, of course, seeing as the economy sucks, and the official unemployment rate is now up to 9.6%. What with it being Labor Day, I might suggest that the government need to invest massive amounts of money putting people to work fixing all the shit that’s gone to hell while the Republicans were out there cutting taxes. That won’t happen, of course, so mostly things will continue to get worse so that the Republicans can make the Democrats look bad (as if the Democrats needed any help), and then take the House and, possible the Senate. Then things will get even worse, as the Republicans will prevent Obama from accomplishing anything (again, not that he needs any help there – sorry, I just don’t see his “accomplishments” on HCR and Wall St. reform as being particularly accomplished, though of course some people will, in theory at least, be marginally better off) in an effort to get a Republican elected President. And then things will go from shitty, to really, really shitty.

Personally, I think I’ll start building a bunker and stockpiling weapons (legal weapons, of course) so I can keep those 18 Hispanics from taking over my land and working hard for slave wages.

Of course, today is also the last day of the NY State Fair, where we’re in sight of setting an all-time attendance record, and/or at least hitting the 1 million visitor mark (918,000 so far). I’m sure that doesn’t sound like much to you big city folks, and, well, it isn’t really all that interesting to me, either, but I guess it’s better than forcing you to read about SU football.

Anyhow, I reckon I’d better get busy and get some stuff done. Kinda sucks that a “day off” means a day to get work done.