Only two days on the job of this temporary assignment and I am already feeling tired and lazy. Ha! Well, it is not easy to come out of retirement to do something you do not have to do. If it weren't for the money and trying to pay off the IRS, I wouldn't do this. On the positive side, the people I work for and with are nice so it is as pleasurable experience as it can be I guess. This is an on-going long term project so if I stick it out, I oould be there through December.

I was supposed to go the gym tonight but I am too lazy for that even. Maybe, just maybe, I will put in two sessions this weekend...one for my regular routine and one for the cardio/sauna routine only.

So what else is new? Nothing really. It would be nice to be able to get rid of a few pain-in-the-ass politicians but for that we must be patient. That will occur in due time.

Time now for dinner (soup and crackers?) so I am outa here.

Wild Parrots vs. Killer Frogs

Well not exactly but I am sure that many people have heard about the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill since a documentary movie was made about them a few years ago but what about the Killer Frogs of Golden Gate Park? There is an interesting article from Matier & Ross in this morning's SF Chronicle regarding these not so little invaders at the Lily Pond near the California Academy of Science. They are being called (Arnold please take note) "Terminator Frogs" by some people.

On a really silly and stupid note, we now have people in Walnut Creek trying to change "Easter Egg Hunt" to "Spring Egg Hunt". Won't this PC craziness ever end?????

Oh here we go again...more pie in the sky attitude from members of our Board of Stuporvisors at Silly Hall.  Now they are considering free Muni...no more fares on buses, trolleys, and subway trains.  I am glad that there are more reasonable people outside Cily Hall who understand the problems such an arrangement would bring on.  Have those fools under the dome figures out yet that there is no such thing as a free ride (anywhere) in life?  But then again, it almost makes sense since the city can't afford to do anything right in the first place due to too much fat in City Hall and elsewhere.  This has to be one of the more inefficiently run cities in the this country.

Then in Washington we have the Libby verdict and its implications for Vice President Cheney.  The only thing I can say at this point is that at least Vice President Agnew had the decency to resign.

Blog, blog, whose gotta blog.  Well, Hillary Clinton and Obama Barack do, or is that Barack Obama?  It is amazing who is getting into this means of communications.  And have you checked the vlogs as they call 'em at You Tube.  There are some funny ones and some boring ones and some pathetic ones but at least everyone has an outlet these days.  I just hope no one overdoes it and that everyone blogs responsibly.  In recent weeks I have also found ways of getting things posted to this site without going directly to the Google/Blogger web page.  Pretty amazing stuff. 

This weekend we will do that silly thing again of turning out clocks ahead one hour at 2 AM (if you up that late) or before retiring.  This "spring forward" and "fall back" routines are ridiculous.  Please, why can't we leave the clocks on one time for the whole year?

I would like to plan another vacation but Uncle Sam and the IRS are taking most of my money for awhile as I have a hefty tax bill to deal with FYE 2006 and will be paying that off for several years.  And NO, I did not win the Mega Millions Lottery tonight.  No where close to it. 
In fact, I am not sure how I will pay for my opera and symphony tickets for the 07/08 season.  Guess it will be Visa once again.  Yuck!
Anybody got any "sure bets" in Reno??  hahaha

Idiocy in Action

The whole world is going crazy. First the people that run the Olympics say the other groups can not use the word Olympics in describing their athletic events, such as Gay Olympics. Now the NFL wants to trademark the words "Big Game", "Super Bowl", etc. Well, I am sure that the people at Cal (Berkeley) and Stanford will have something to say about the "Big Game" which has been going on longer than the NFL has been in existence.

Then we have people in the State of California who want to institute mandatory spaying and neutering of pets. I agree that many need that but what about professional breeders? At this point the proposed law would make it very difficult and costly for such people to get exemptions from this draconian measure.

Then we have people (businesses, governments, etc.) who say we cannot say Easter Bunny. That is being replaced with Spring Bunny...or Holiday Tree replaces Christmas Tree...or Happy Holidays is a no-no. One must say Merry Christmas even though that time of the year involves more than just the traditional Christian celebration of Christmas. We have certainly become to politically correct for our own good. Get a life folks and chill out.

Now for my other pet peeve. And that is young people who were the baggiest of pants and do so with them almost down to their knees. The kids who dress that way really are a mess. So far I have not seen young people in other countries dress that way and this is one thing that I hope does not get exported to other countries. American foods, TV shows, movies, etc., have been exported and embraced in other cultures but this is one thing that needs to stay at home and hopefully eradicated at home as well.