I shoulda went to FCN maybe
Apr. 8th, 2011 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoI have most of next week off. Working Monday, and Wednesday evening. That's all. I still had 28 hours of vacation left from last year, and this will use most of it up.
Weather looks iffy for the weekend, what with all the chances of thunderstorms, possibly severe, but we'll chance it. Should be the warmest temperatures we've had this year, and I'm planning to grill something tomorrow if at all possible. Just what depends on what fresh produce I can find tomorrow.
Fortunately, we aren't dependent on the morons in Congress for this, or we'd not be eating at all. Aren't you utterly fed up with all the grandstanding and non-cooperation? I sure am. It's all about drama and publicity, not at all about doing what needs to be done. (Which is NOT, I might add, tying crap like your attitudes about birth control, abortion, or sex education into a budget allocation bill. Nor is it tying your extreme ideas about killing programs like Social Security or Medicare into the bill. Those are issues that should be discussed and debated openly and in detail, in their own right, rather than sneaking them into some other large bill and hoping no one will notice until it's too late.)
Frankly, I think any individual whose annual earnings are more than a million dollars, like so many of the crooks who head big banks, ought to be taxed about 90% on those excess earnings. That is stolen money. They have no legitimate right to it when their banks are so busy stealing from small ordinary folks, foreclosing mortgages, raising credit card interest to usurious levels, and cutting interest on savings to fractions of a percent. All the while laughing as they stuff bags with money and ship it off to Switzerland or whatever it is they do with their ill gotten gains.
Right now there is something making very strange sounds outside in the dark. It isn't an Eastern Screech Owl, as we know those quite well. It might be a Western Screech Owl or a Lesser Nighthawk, except that they don't belong here. It's a long (5 to 10 second) pitched trill, with a sort of hollow echo to it. It's not any species of frog found around here, but I'm not familiar with the possible toads. So I suppose it might be a bird I don't know, or some kind of toad. Too early for any insect here to be making that kind of racket.
[Edit: After web searches for amphibian sounds likely in Illinois in the spring, we've decided it's a frog after all. The Northern Leopard Frog, to be precise. Lots of chorus frogs singing in the distance, but this one is up close and very distinct.]
Weather looks iffy for the weekend, what with all the chances of thunderstorms, possibly severe, but we'll chance it. Should be the warmest temperatures we've had this year, and I'm planning to grill something tomorrow if at all possible. Just what depends on what fresh produce I can find tomorrow.
Fortunately, we aren't dependent on the morons in Congress for this, or we'd not be eating at all. Aren't you utterly fed up with all the grandstanding and non-cooperation? I sure am. It's all about drama and publicity, not at all about doing what needs to be done. (Which is NOT, I might add, tying crap like your attitudes about birth control, abortion, or sex education into a budget allocation bill. Nor is it tying your extreme ideas about killing programs like Social Security or Medicare into the bill. Those are issues that should be discussed and debated openly and in detail, in their own right, rather than sneaking them into some other large bill and hoping no one will notice until it's too late.)
Frankly, I think any individual whose annual earnings are more than a million dollars, like so many of the crooks who head big banks, ought to be taxed about 90% on those excess earnings. That is stolen money. They have no legitimate right to it when their banks are so busy stealing from small ordinary folks, foreclosing mortgages, raising credit card interest to usurious levels, and cutting interest on savings to fractions of a percent. All the while laughing as they stuff bags with money and ship it off to Switzerland or whatever it is they do with their ill gotten gains.
Right now there is something making very strange sounds outside in the dark. It isn't an Eastern Screech Owl, as we know those quite well. It might be a Western Screech Owl or a Lesser Nighthawk, except that they don't belong here. It's a long (5 to 10 second) pitched trill, with a sort of hollow echo to it. It's not any species of frog found around here, but I'm not familiar with the possible toads. So I suppose it might be a bird I don't know, or some kind of toad. Too early for any insect here to be making that kind of racket.
[Edit: After web searches for amphibian sounds likely in Illinois in the spring, we've decided it's a frog after all. The Northern Leopard Frog, to be precise. Lots of chorus frogs singing in the distance, but this one is up close and very distinct.]
