Even though we don’t have a closing date yet, I can’t help but look around here and think, “where the hell did all this crap come from, and how are we ever gonna move it?” And that’s not even counting all the shit in the attic. Some of this stuff clearly isn’t gonna make the trip – though what, exactly, we’re gonna do with it is another story. Anybody interested in a rather massive collection of VHS tapes? Hmm. Didn’t think so. Unless anybody’s got recycling ideas, I guess they’re gonna have to take that long walk down the green mile to the dump. Too bad; there’s a lot of good stuff in there (including “The Green Mile,” come to think of it).
Speaking of moving, as part of my new austerity budget, I’ve been forced to cancel my subscription to the WTF podcast. I’ll miss listening to it, but that $10 a month needs to go elsewhere, I’m afraid. Y’all will have to keep me informed of any interesting developments.
Speaking of WTF and comedians and stuff, I was very sorry to hear about Greg Giraldo. If you hadn’t heard, he’s in critical condition after an apparently accidental overdose of prescription drugs. I hope everything works out OK for him.
Otherwise, it appears that I’m either allergic to something, or am coming down with a cold (and it’s been perfect “cold” weather lately – 90 degrees one day, 50 and rainy the next). Time to start hitting the Oil of Oregano hard. I don’t have time in the budget for being sick.
On the Internet front, the Democrats are planning on introducing legislation to gut the ability of the FCC to enforce Net Neutrality. And the Obama Administration wants to make it a lot easier to track your every movement online. I keep telling myself that, golly, the Democrats are so much better than the Republicans (and, of course, that I’m in way disappointed with Obama), but it gets more difficult every day.
Fortunately, the 12-20 years of Republican control that appears to be on the horizon should help. That’s how it works, right? The Republicans suck so bad for so long that the Democrats take over for a term or two, but then they knock themselves out working at trying to be just like Republicans so that they get tossed out of office pretty rapidly, and then wonder how come nobody likes them.
Oh, it’s all so discouraging.
I think I need a bigger tractor.
On Shelter Island there is a goody pile at the dump. Things that are usable can be left there for others to clutter up their homes. For some reason it is easier to donate stuff to the goody pile than to simply chuck it.
Lots of stuff can be donated. Libraries take books and the Salvation Army takes furniture and other household stuff. The value of the donation is a tax deduction.
Our bathroom is almost completely done. Some paint touch-up, the uncomfortable job of painting the closets and that’s it. Next summer it is the kitchen which has the distinction of having only 6 sq. ft. of usable counter space.
This winter we get to finish the dining room in Brooklyn. It never ends.
I have not started to work yet. The NYC school system is even more disorganized than usual. By the second week in October I should be back to my regular 4 day schedule. But, as I only get paid for the days I work, I am enjoying my unemployment as well as my poverty.
PJ, is there an expense to keeping up this blog? If so, I think we MSers should contribute.
A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.
Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.
More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/religious-literacy-americ_n_741391.html
I’m not paying shit. In fact I even have to cancel my monthly donations to the Tecate and Dos Equis foundations to skimp by.
Wait a second. I’d pay to have all my comments removed.
No, the only costs associated with this are the domain name, which isn’t much, and the web hosting, which is done under the same account as my other stuff, so that’s not really an issue. Things aren’t quite that austere (yet).
It’s not like I’m considering eating the dogs or anything.
I may quit with the Sedition Radio thing, though. Not for the expense, but just ‘cut it’s a hassle. It runs out of my basement, and craps out from time to time. And it got AFU the other day, and was down for a couple of weeks.
Not sure how long I’ll have to have it down when I move, but it could be for a while, and I’m not sure it’s worth keeping up with. Not a whole lot of people listen in these days, though I know of one person who will be bummed, as she lets me know whenever something goes wrong with it.
Melina turned me on to Freecycle which is a good way to get give away stuff and sometimes find things you never knew you needed.
http://groups.freecycle.org/SyracuseNYFreecycle/posts/all
Uh-oh. I think it’s me he’s mad at.
Oh, wait, I’m planning on voting, so it’s not me. Phew. Still, I should be ashamed of myself for not realizing how great he’s been.
He may not be great but he ain’t Bush.
Waiting for a closing date isn’t enough stress. Now we gotta worry about the FBI busting through the door in the middle of the night because we don’t want our soldiers killing people in Iraq & Afghanistan & Pakistan and an all the other “stans” on the Planet …. Now the FBI is raiding the homes of anti-war activists involved in protesting at the 2008 RNC Convention …. HOLY EFFING SH*T!!!!
CHANGE??? WHAT CHANGE???? Obama TOTALLY = BUSH!!!
I was in Minneapolis in 2008 & attended the Peace Island Picnic across the Mississippi River (which was infested with gunboats aimed at us) on the last day of the RNC convention in St. Paul. My eldest daughters & their husbands and my 2 infant grandchildren (at the time) were clearly a huge terrorist threat (see http://theunconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sept-4-peace-sign-by-tim-hansen-150dpi.jpg — we are in the left lower part of the left upper quadrant of the photo ).
So, I think PJ probably oughta just move himself out to the country with the :pup: ies to stay safe and I’ll just have to stay here and take what comes when it comes because I damn well know I’m on the Terrorist Watch List. Obama = Bush … keep that War Going …. Gotta Make War to Make Profit
Have I said yet how much I HATE this :crap: :fu: :fu: :fu: :fu: :fu: :fu: :fu: :fu: ??????
I should probably just cross myself off the list because I’m not patriotic enough & PJ needs to find himself a trophy wife to keep him happy. :hubba:
I seem to be way too toxic to be any good for him (not to mention too fat and too old). 😥 :paranoid:
Probably should just give myself up to the FBI now to save him the stress of having to worry about government-mandated Patriot-Act home invasions. He’d be better off without me. Would be better for the :pup: s …. they are all that matter anyway.
Gitmo, here I come! (New York, This Is Your Last Chance!!! :billcat: )