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Can I have a big Monster House DONE on the DVD project. Everything is organized. I have only a few disks that have no case and a few cases that have no DVD. It is better than I thought it would be. My big fear is that I am forgetting something and I am going to find more DVDs while I am cleaning.
Caroline had her flu shot yesterday. They wanted to do it in her rump but she convinced them to do it in her arm which she sat for like a trooper. This morning her arm is a little sore but that seems to be the only side effect from the shot.
We have, apparently, been in a recession since last December according to National Bureau of Economic Research to which I have to say Duh. They haven't wanted to use the "r" word for fear of tanking the markets. Well can't say that it helped much to not say it.
Right now Americans are worried about what name their bank will have the next day or even if they will have a bank. Pensioners are being told that benefits that they were promised are no longer available or greatly curtailed due to companies vanishing. The middle class and the poor are getting the shaft while CEOs are still getting their perks. Before we start bailing out the automakers and whoever else need money, let us see the corporate fat cats take a salary cut and lose the perks to something reasonable. Screwing over the little guy while you can still play golf does not endure you to me.
My sympathies to the family of New York bus driver Edwin Thomas who was killed yesterday when he wouldn't give a transfer slip to a fair jumper. I hope that they find this dirt bag and string him up by his privates. Mr. Thomas followed MTA policy and did not confront the fair jumper when he got on the bus but he drew the line at rewarding the thief for not paying a fare and it cost him his life.
And they are talking cutting back personal and security at the MTA which is a bad idea. Hey, why don't the CEOs and other members of upper management who are making as much as three union station masters cut their salaries so we can protect the workers? No? Didn't think so.
I am grateful for things that make me feel better.
Caroline had her flu shot yesterday. They wanted to do it in her rump but she convinced them to do it in her arm which she sat for like a trooper. This morning her arm is a little sore but that seems to be the only side effect from the shot.
We have, apparently, been in a recession since last December according to National Bureau of Economic Research to which I have to say Duh. They haven't wanted to use the "r" word for fear of tanking the markets. Well can't say that it helped much to not say it.
Right now Americans are worried about what name their bank will have the next day or even if they will have a bank. Pensioners are being told that benefits that they were promised are no longer available or greatly curtailed due to companies vanishing. The middle class and the poor are getting the shaft while CEOs are still getting their perks. Before we start bailing out the automakers and whoever else need money, let us see the corporate fat cats take a salary cut and lose the perks to something reasonable. Screwing over the little guy while you can still play golf does not endure you to me.
My sympathies to the family of New York bus driver Edwin Thomas who was killed yesterday when he wouldn't give a transfer slip to a fair jumper. I hope that they find this dirt bag and string him up by his privates. Mr. Thomas followed MTA policy and did not confront the fair jumper when he got on the bus but he drew the line at rewarding the thief for not paying a fare and it cost him his life.
And they are talking cutting back personal and security at the MTA which is a bad idea. Hey, why don't the CEOs and other members of upper management who are making as much as three union station masters cut their salaries so we can protect the workers? No? Didn't think so.
I am grateful for things that make me feel better.