I was a few minutes late for my part-time job the other day (lifeguarding for swimming lessons), and explained my tardiness thusly: “I’m dog-sitting for a medically fragile schnauzer.” And that’s why this is the first blog of the week. My life’s been disrupted a little bit.
This is my dear friends’ dog, and I don’t mind watching her, but hoo-boy. She’s diabetic, and blind as a consequence, so caring for her is not just a matter of taking her to the boarding kennel and waving goodbye, or even taking her to my house. I have to go to her. She needs insulin injected twice a day, plus two more meds. And letting her outside is a matter of snapping your fingers so she’ll follow the sound, then watching so she doesn’t walk into the swimming pool, which she has done, although not on my watch. She did walk smack into a wall yesterday, however. Poor dear.
Her brother dog is a spoiled-rotten but charming Morkie (Maltese/Yorkie cross) who does not hesitate to ask for attention whenever he feels a lack of same. So I’ve got my hands full. Upside: They have a luxurious bathroom — the shower squirts out of multiple heads, it’s so fabulous — and one of those new Dyson hair dryers, so there are compensations. And I’m always willing to do a favor for friends.
Happy Fat Tuesday, by the way. No, I will not be looking for paczki today. They’re jelly donuts, and I fail to see why I have to drive to Hamtramck, or even Kroger, for jelly donuts.
In my solitude, I’ve been reading. Looking back over the last few years of this blog, I’m starting to wonder at the damage you-know-who is going to my psyche, because it seems like every FUCKING day there’s something to be outraged about, and that can’t be good for one’s cortisol levels. But being an engaged citizen is part of one’s duty in a democratic republic, and so on we plow. Today’s outrage is this piece in Talking Points Memo, about what document discovery is revealing about the 2020 election aftermath:
Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election culminated on a single, now-infamous day: Jan. 6.
But there was an alternate scenario gamed out by Trump’s lawyers — one that would have expanded the hours of indecision caused by the Trump campaign’s efforts and stretched out the process for weeks, all the way until Jan. 20, 2021, the Constitution’s ironclad deadline for the transfer of power. If their scheme succeeded, these lawyers hoped, Joe Biden would never take office.
…The plan would have seen the Trump campaign pushing Republican lawmakers to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win not just on Jan. 6, but for days afterwards. GOP legislators would have feigned confusion over competing slates of electors, paralyzing Congress as the Trump campaign brought increasing pressure on the Supreme Court to step in and resolve the election in their favor.
Is it wrong to want to see these people not just in court, but in federal prison? Maybe gen-pop at Leavenworth? I don’t think so.
Hate to cut this short, but the morning is slipping away and I have some work to do, i.e., thinking about lunch. If Lent is upon us, can spring be far behind? I don’t think so.
alex said on February 13, 2024 at 11:08 am
Trying to save my appetite for Fat Tuesday dinner at my fave brew pub. I’ll need to get there early, like before 5 PM, in order to get a seat and also to get the best stuff on the featured menu, which always runs out if I show up at, say, 7. Happy happy! And I won’t be giving up anything for Lent except, I hope, doom scrolling.
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Jeff Gill said on February 13, 2024 at 11:47 am
Pitchers & catchers report tomorrow, so spring is definitely upon us. Full squad practice on Monday, first spring training game for the Cubs will be a week from Friday, Feb. 23, vs. the White Sox.
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Julie Robinson said on February 13, 2024 at 1:01 pm
And the pastor in the family is looking for last year’s palm branches to burn for ashes tomorrow.
Our son’s cat is diabetic and gets shots 2X and pills 4X. They also just discovered a mass that seems cancerous. Despite currently having no job*, he is planning surgery and treatment. The cat is the sweetest thing ever, but still.
*The peril of working for small companies is when they close unexpectedly. His last two have, with one week and two weeks notice.
So this is enough for me to worry about at the present, and I think Dorothy has the right idea. We’re headed out for a romantic lunch, being retirees and all.
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Suzanne said on February 13, 2024 at 1:40 pm
A long time friend of mine lived in the south suburbs of Chicago for years. She is a pretty much non-practicing Methodist. One year, a few weeks after Ash Wednesday, she wandered into a bakery in Calumet City, IL (yes, home of the Blues Brothers and steeped in Catholicism) and innocently asked if they had any pączki for sale and as she related, was greeted with a robust lesson in religious practice. “It’s LENT!” the clerk said fairly screamed at her. “You can’t eat pączki during Lent!!” Ok, then.
So to commemorate the event, I buy a box of pączki every year and save one to eat on or after Ash Wednesday 🙂
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Sherri said on February 13, 2024 at 2:52 pm
I’ve been trying to come up with a model of how to stay engaged enough in what’s happening without destroying my mental health, and right now, I don’t feel like I’m succeeding.
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Deborah said on February 13, 2024 at 3:07 pm
Suzanne, how did you get the A in paczki to have that correct mark?
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LAMary said on February 13, 2024 at 3:24 pm
I’m right there with you Sherri .
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basset said on February 13, 2024 at 4:14 pm
Me too, Sherri. Meanwhile, Grandpa B keeps getting letters from various strangers offering to buy or lease the family farm Up North and put solar panels on it… I understand that regulation of solar farms just loosened up some in Michigan, no doubt that’s why.
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tajalli said on February 13, 2024 at 4:30 pm
Of course, St. Valentine’s Day is in gustatory and spiritual conflict with Ash Wednesday, but only if you’re celebrating Lent by giving up sweets (or chocolate!!) for Lent.
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Peter said on February 13, 2024 at 4:45 pm
Basset and Sherri, count me in on that task.
My son will be an elections judge supervisor again this year – he lives and works in the far far NW Chicago suburbs.
He told me about the recent election judge training class, and for the THIRD election in a row, some judges come dressed with the MAGA hat and gear, even though the class invite specifically states in bold letters that you can’t wear any partisan clothing to the class, or to the election, and some of them start to smoke during the training class, and you can’t smoke inside of the building, and when the instructor tells them to change their clothes/put out the smokes, they throw a fit and leave. This time one of them threw a new poll book against the wall when she walked out.
The part that worries my son is that it’s different people every time, so it appears that the MAGA nuts have a very deep bench. Still, he says, he just doesn’t get why someone would go through all of that effort to pitch a fit and not get paid.
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Suzanne said on February 13, 2024 at 4:48 pm
Deborah, I am typing on my iPad, so I kept my finger on the an until a whole bunch of options for different accents for the letter show up. The trick is not lifting your finger to select the one you want.
Also, I am currently reading Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory. Highly recommend for a snapshot of how MAGAs think although it’s depressing.
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Icarus said on February 13, 2024 at 5:25 pm
Every so often, St Patrick’s Day lands on a Friday during Lent and the Pope gives a special dispensation so you can have corned beef.
Suzanne @ 4: hearing that story makes me want to eat a pączki during Lent, but alas; I’m not a fan of pączkis nor am I a practicing Catholic.
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David C said on February 13, 2024 at 6:13 pm
It’s nice to be unaffiliated. I can eat anything anytime I want except maybe pizza and the like after 7:30 because it give my acid reflux. At least I know it’s pizza giving me reflux and not God.
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Jeff Gill said on February 13, 2024 at 6:53 pm
Satan causes reflux. I mean, c’mon, it’s obvious.
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Sherri said on February 13, 2024 at 7:24 pm
My biggest problem with the Alberta book is that he’s shocked by what evangelical Christianity has become. Dude, it was always thus, you were just a straight white guy.
I don’t know how evangelicals handle the cognitive dissonance. It was way too much for me.
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David C said on February 13, 2024 at 8:48 pm
To the god who drowned everyone and everything (rounding here) because he was having a hissy fit, giving acid reflux to both the good and the evil doesn’t seem like much of a stretch.
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ROGirl said on February 14, 2024 at 7:19 am
I work at a company owned by an evangelical and as a non-believer I find the whole schtick performative, hypocritical and ego-driven. He doesn’t share the wealth with his employees, either.
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alex said on February 14, 2024 at 9:12 am
I worked for an archconservative Catholic whose piousness was also performative, hypocritical and ego-driven and quitting on him was the best decision I ever made. If I had a routine medical appointment, he would ask me all kinds of intrusive questions about my health and pretend to be worried and tell me that he was praying for me. There were other times, of course, when he’d give me hell for going to doctors on company time; he would boast that he’s never been to a doctor so why should anyone else unless they’re at death’s door? He also was dismissive about COVID and ridiculed people who masked up and he had COVID multiple times but came to work well before his quarantine should have been up.
I’m an atheist, but even so I’m a much better Christian than anyone I’ve ever met who flaunts their Christianity.
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Jenine said on February 14, 2024 at 10:00 am
We had a dog who needed allergy shots. She was allergic to everything including oak pollen, common turf grass and ants. I gave her the injections but I didn’t enjoy that job. Hoping to avoid pet health tech duties in future.
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brian stouder said on February 14, 2024 at 10:53 am
Amen, Alex (so to speak!)
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Scout said on February 14, 2024 at 12:10 pm
One of the great benefits to being a heathen is that I am blissfully free to enjoy this manufactured Hallmark holiday without guilt.
In NY Democrat Suozzi handily won the disgraced Santos’ seat in an R district, which seems a good portent for November. Even with the GQP mighty Wurlitzer of msm propaganda, it looks like voters are sick of the MAGAt bs and only the cult minority are still falling for the schtick. I think the border shenanigans opened a lot of minds.
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ROGirl said on February 14, 2024 at 1:31 pm
The company doesn’t interfere with employee medical care, but there is a chaplain on the payroll (longtime friend of the owner, went to Moody Bible College), daily prayer sessions and weekly bible study (all optional). The owner prays for all the employees, but when he asked me if I wanted him to pray for me, I said no. I think he prays for the nonbelievers to come to jesus.
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Sherri said on February 14, 2024 at 3:00 pm
How much of the Biden too old discourse is just a way of saying “I don’t want a black woman as president” without having to say it?
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Jeff Borden said on February 14, 2024 at 3:23 pm
I’m a happy atheist. I respect those who find strength and comfort in their faith, but it’s not for me. So, Lent is no longer a problem for a retired catholic. Lord, how I hated salmon croquettes on Fridays when I was a kid.
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brian stouder said on February 14, 2024 at 3:36 pm
So now the Big Question is how many people were hit by the Super Bowl Parade Shooter? At-yi-yi
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Dexter Friend said on February 14, 2024 at 4:54 pm
I passed on paczki for the first time in maybe 35 years, because the local bakery makes smaller versions every day and I eat them regularly.
Flipping the Santos seat by 16 points is a great sign out of New York. Trump is a loser every election. I hope Joe lasts, as Harris is really an unknown, used mostly until recently as the Dobbs protester, speaking on abortion. I think she is flawed by history. She railroaded kids with a little weed into long prison stints while later laughing how she toked it up herself, years ago. I have no idea how she stands on main issues, guns, wars, funding genocide under Netanyahu. We need Joe to hang in there for 4 more years +.
I support Joe Biden 100%. All the way.
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Brandon said on February 14, 2024 at 5:38 pm
I hated salmon croquettes
If I were at your dinner table then, you could’ve passed them to me.
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Sherri said on February 14, 2024 at 6:20 pm
Two years ago, the city of Redmond acquired a parcel of land downtown for the explicit purpose of earmarking it for an eventual affordable housing project. In the most recent budget, the city allocated $10 million for possible affordable housing projects. So when a different city bailed out of a project a couple of years into the process (a chickenshit council said “we didn’t realize that permanent supportive housing meant that people exiting homelessness might be allowed to live there, we only thought *deserving* poor people would live there! And I don’t really exaggerate), Redmond stepped in.
Of course, the usual loud people are screaming. Some of them even live in Redmond. There’s still a long process ahead, and we’ll have to listen to these loud people for months. There will almost certainly be pickets and protests, and no doubt they will attract media attention. One of their number, who does not live in Redmond, is a former reporter who got fired from the local Sinclair station for being too right wing, and now works for the Discovery Institute, the think take that produced Intelligent Design and Christopher Rufo. They have produced a website with their solutions for homelessness, which do not include housing, because they say homelessness is not a housing problem.
I expect nonsense from the likes of them, but I’m always disappointed by the people who claim to be more progressive than anybody, but never saw a housing proposal that was quite the right shade of progressive. One of that type voted against the proposal last night on council. (There’s another one, but he was out of town and didn’t vote.)
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Sherri said on February 14, 2024 at 6:45 pm
I can’t help but giggle every time I think of the Cybertruck, that Musk said was “apocalypse-proof.” As long as the power grid survived the apocalypse. And it didn’t snow. Or rain.
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LAMary said on February 14, 2024 at 7:29 pm
I worked at a Catholic hospital for years. The nuns and the chaplain knew I was an atheist but never tried to change my mind. I respected their beliefs and how they applied them to working with patients and their families. On the other hand I had nondenominational Christian coworker who thought I was scum.
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Jeff Borden said on February 14, 2024 at 9:06 pm
Brandon,
The irony now is I love salmon. Salmon croquettes seem out of fashion these days, but if I get a chance, I’ll give ’em another go.
Big day for Second Amendment action. Thoughts and prayers.
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LAMary said on February 15, 2024 at 9:17 am
Jeff, if you’re a Costco shopper check out the Trident salmon burgers. They’re very good and very reasonably priced.
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basset said on February 15, 2024 at 11:42 am
Doing some more hospital active shooter drills this afternoon, we get a lot of requests for those.
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Suzanne said on February 15, 2024 at 11:48 am
When I was in the hospital undergoing cancer treatments, the floor was locked down for a few hours because of some incident. No one could come in or go out. It made me think of how completely vulnerable I would be should a shooter get on the floor, hooked up as I was to multiple IV pumps and weak. It’s terrifying and nothing ever gets done to change it.
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Dorothy said on February 15, 2024 at 12:52 pm
I still maintain that it’s going to take the murder of a family member of the House or Senate to get anything done on the gun issue. Even then I have serious doubts that they can get a majority that will make any kind of meaningful decision. But the way things are going with the frequency of mass shootings in this country, odds are that this kind of murder is right around the corner. Maybe even next week!
That’s sick, I know – I am NOT gleeful about this. Just realistic.
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basset said on February 15, 2024 at 1:27 pm
We have a whole suite of rooms wired up with video, reception area, patient rooms and so forth… we play patients and staff, employees from other departments come in as learners and the shooter is a campus police officer in disguise.
We run them through the shooting once, show em the video, make corrections and go round again. It can be pretty intense even knowing that it’s not for real, trying to hold a door shut with the shooter pulling on it and trying to fire through the crack…
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ROGirl said on February 15, 2024 at 2:07 pm
They didn’t do anything after Steve Scalise was shot and almost died.
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Julie Robinson said on February 15, 2024 at 2:54 pm
And Scalise is back with his NRA buddies too.
A friend’s husband is becoming agoraphobic. He no longer wants to go to all the fun activities they used to frequent. He pretty much just goes to the grocery store, not that it’s safe either. No place is safe.
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Jeff Borden said on February 15, 2024 at 6:32 pm
Well, damn, it looks like the behavior of Fani Willis is going to derail the tRump election steal trial.
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Dorothy said on February 15, 2024 at 6:51 pm
I think it’s too soon to jump to that conclusion, Jeff. I’m keeping the faith that the judge will keep her where she needs to be.
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Jeff Borden said on February 15, 2024 at 7:44 pm
The optics today were TERRIBLE for Ms. Willis. She handed tRump salvation on a silver platter. I’m trying not to jump to conclusions, but a case already under an electron microscope requires much higher levels of ethical behavior. The bombshell testimony of a former girlfriend can be written off as someone with an axe to grind. . .or a credible witness who proves Ms. Willis to be a liar. . .but it’s an ugly look either way. I thought her impromptu performance on the stand was just awful, too. She’s run such a tight ship up to this point, I am deeply concerned the past few days have greatly damaged her work.
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Dorothy said on February 15, 2024 at 8:20 pm
It was difficult to read how the judge was feeling about things but overall, I’m going to cling to the belief that she was careful not to cross ethical lines and therefore she’s going to be okay. But I realize that’s a little Pollyanna of me to feel that way, too.
I watched about 75 minutes of her testimony and I’m still laughing at the part when one lawyer tried to say something about money and used the word ‘hoard’ at the same time. And she snapped “What did you just call me?!” And he sputtered up and down that he’d never ever ever call anyone what she thought he just said, and then he said “h-o-r-d-e” which of course was incorrect. But he did enunciate the D when he said the word again.
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brian stouder said on February 15, 2024 at 10:21 pm
That lawyer made a HORRID error!
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alex said on February 16, 2024 at 12:05 am
From an objective standpoint, the romantic involvement of two people on the prosecution side doesn’t have diddly-squat to do with whether the defendant is guilty or innocent. It’s a conflict of interest? How? This is just a desperate attempt by the Trump defense team to embarrass the prosecutors by putting their sex lives on trial in the Court of Public Opinion. And stall because they have a losing case in the Court of Law.
What if Alina Habba were blowing John Lauro? Or both were blowing their client? That would be irrelevant as well. But, wow, wouldn’t it be cool if there were a media frenzy speculating about a scenario like that.
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Dexter Friend said on February 16, 2024 at 7:20 am
Alexei Navalny collapsed in the gulag and is dead, age 47. Let the inquiry begin. Michael McFaul just said Putin killed Navalny.
Smirnoff the snitch to the FBI, who was praised by Comer for supposedly delivering damning evidence against Joe Biden in the impeachment deal, is now locked up in Las Vegas for lying to the FBI, just making shit up.
The first joke I remember as a tiny boy: never tell a L-I-E to the FBI. Stupid bastard.
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Mark P said on February 16, 2024 at 10:16 am
Jeff, why do you think Willis’s dating problems will have an effect on the case? Is there some connection?
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Suzanne said on February 16, 2024 at 11:22 am
The Fani Willis crap is just a Trump attempt to delay the trial until after the election which he assumes he will win and then can stop the trial and throw Willis in prison.
Funny that while the right claims she can’t be trusted because she was sleeping with another prosecutor, they have no issue with Clarence T judging insurrection cases while sleeping with his wife who was intimately involved with the insurrectionists.
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Mark P said on February 16, 2024 at 12:04 pm
Suzanne, not to mention serial adulterer Trump, who screwed a porn actress while his wife was home with their young child.
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Scout said on February 16, 2024 at 2:49 pm
The only optics that anyone could consider ‘terrible’ are the ones where she wasn’t having their shit. She rightly pointed out that SHE isn’t the one on trial. She rightly pointed out how her decision to carry cash has no bearing on this case. This whole thing is a delay and smear tactic because TRUMP IS GUILTY AF and everyone knows it. I just hope the judge hearing this sees it too.
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David C said on February 16, 2024 at 3:15 pm
Deduct another $300 million.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ny-fraud-case-damages-pay-millions-judge-engoron-rcna135283
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Jeff Borden said on February 16, 2024 at 5:38 pm
Mark P.,
The problem isn’t who Fani Willis was dating, per se, but the shift in focus. Ms. Willis is correct. She’s NOT the one on trial, but yet, she is. It isn’t fair, but it is real. Now, instead of the focus being on the traitorous scum who tried to throw Georgia to the Orange King, the discussion is about her, the hired prosecutor and her performance on the stand, which probably played well with some but will be seen by others as unprofessional. If the tRumpanzees are good at one thing, it’s flooding the zone with shit. They now have plenty of shit to flood.
This reminds me a great deal of the Whitewater investigation. The special prosecutor started looking at a bad land deal –the Clintons LOST money– but the focus soon shifted to other areas of Clinton’s behavior. Soon enough, we were discussing a certain blue dress and sexual hijinks in the Oval Office with a 22-year-old intern.
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Peter said on February 16, 2024 at 6:21 pm
Sherri @ 28: ding ding ding ding ding. Although I’m sure Fox could think of something dire if anyone else was Vice President – what would they do if it was Adam Schiff?
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Sherri said on February 16, 2024 at 6:34 pm
From David Roth on bluesky:
“Every two weeks a judge in a different state bangs a gavel, announces “it is the finding of this court that the accused, Donald Trump, is an absolute turbo shithead” and then fines him an amount roughly equal to a MLB team’s entire payroll. This is expected to continue for months.”
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brian stouder said on February 16, 2024 at 10:56 pm
As I’ve probably said before, on the day of the mob-attack on the United States Congress, the place where I worked had a tv going in the warehouse. People stopped and watched for a moment or two, and several laughed at (and literally) cheered-on the unfolding spectacle, much as one might when your team has the ball in the Super Bowl. People who worked every day, paid taxes, and who were plugged-in to civic duties like voting and volunteering and other public service. I don’t claim any special insight, at all. I was taken aback by the breaking news, but mostly – I was literally aghast at the reactions of at least several of my then-colleagues. It was a jarring moment that essentially highlighted the default darkness that is all too widespread and ever-present
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alex said on February 17, 2024 at 9:04 am
As I watched J6 unfold on my computer screen at work, an attorney popped his head in my door to inform me that I was watching a false flag effort by Antifa. He was completely serious. Just like my worst boss ever (mentioned upthread), he was also a devout Catholic who couldn’t shut up about God. And he eschewed vaccines, which he claimed might interfere with his and his wife’s fertility based on no science that I’ve ever heard of. And also like my old boss he used to come to work sick and give COVID to others. For all of his pious posturing he was an inconsiderate dolt.
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jcburns said on February 17, 2024 at 2:04 pm
So. Jeff, when you say “Ms. Willis is correct. She’s NOT the one on trial, but yet, she is”…I just shake my head.
It’s so easy for Trump and team to try and turn her relationship into something, but it’s really none of our business. None of HIS business. None of the business of the, ahem, news media.
Put this crap away and get back to the issue. Trump’s actions.
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jcburns said on February 17, 2024 at 2:05 pm
By the way, I voted for Fani Willis and will do so again.
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LAMary said on February 17, 2024 at 2:30 pm
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-will-have-to-sell-assets-to-pay-usd350-million-fraud-fee.html
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Jeff Borden said on February 17, 2024 at 3:20 pm
I loathe tRump so much…I’m so invested in seeing him pay for his seditious violence …that I’m nervous about anything that might tip the scales. I’ve repeatedly praised Fani Willis up to this point. Maybe my concerns about the bullshit last week are overwrought. If that flabby greaseball were to skate on his second greatest crime –encouraging his loony thugs on J6 is the worst offense — it will sting. I hope you’re correct that the past few days won’t matter.
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jcburns said on February 17, 2024 at 3:53 pm
Jeff, is there a prosecutor in the past decade to four that you can point out that messed up a prosecution of a nasty type by having a relationship with a coworker? Or a relationship with…whomever?
This is just Trump’s defense team working hard to distract you. And sadly, it’s working.
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Mark P said on February 17, 2024 at 4:26 pm
The Atlanta TV news are doing everything they can to try to find some “there” there to justify long, long segments covering the court proceedings. The main element in the whole controversy is the fact that she is not a man.
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David C said on February 17, 2024 at 4:32 pm
I thought her testimony was brilliant and following up with her father was equally so. The Trumpanzees won’t buy it but they wouldn’t have anyway.
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susan said on February 17, 2024 at 6:14 pm
Mark P- …the whole controversy is the fact that she is not a man. AND that she is Black. A Black woman. The worst kind, in their universe.
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Jeff Gill said on February 17, 2024 at 8:07 pm
The law doesn’t give the judge much latitude here as I’m reading it. She’s very unlikely to be replaced. There’s been no evidence presented that would support the DA’s removal. An affair isn’t sufficient grounds for action here. As JC noted, this is dust being flung in the air in fistfuls, hoping it will be enough to make us all blink & cough.
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MarkH said on February 17, 2024 at 8:13 pm
JC, here’s an answer to your question, admittedly from the ‘close-but-no-cigar’ dept.: Marcia Clark and Chris Darden from the OJ trial, 1995. From everything I looked up, there is no proof they did it, but both have been rather coy in their denials while acknowledging a ‘relationship’. The OJ trial was such a hot mess, this issue certainly didn’t derail anything, but it didn’t help the case.
BTW, JC, I disagree with you @54 about whose business this is. This was always bound for the public realm like it or not, thanks to Trumpers as you said. And if you and Mark P need a reason for media attention there’s this, dug up by MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. Nothing illegal, but if true, Wallis broke a specific campaign promise. News. Did any Atlanta media pick this up?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fani-willis-vow-not-date-170414749.html
Just my opinion, but I say the case survives with Fani Willis at the helm, intact.
ON EDIT – Agree with Jeff @62 on the judge’s position.
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Mark P said on February 18, 2024 at 1:32 am
Fani Willis’s “broken” campaign promise is worth about three sentences on local TV, and in any case, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the prosecution of Trump for his blatant criminal solicitation of election fraud. It’s all bullshit.
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Dorothy said on February 18, 2024 at 6:28 am
We are in Pittsburgh for the weekend and after the game at the Petersen Events Center last night, we had a late supper at Eat ‘n Park. Mike went to the bathroom and I waited at the table after we paid the bill and I could hear people at a table of four talking. One guy said something about Nancy Pelosi makes $200,000 a year and yet she’s a millionaire. How do you explain that?! Well that got me mad. I knew what her husband did for a living but I went and checked it with Uncle Google to be sure. And I walked over to their table as Mike and I were heading out to our car and said “I heard you mention how much Nancy Pelosi makes and you were asking how she became a millionaire. Her husband is an investment banker – but you knew that already, right?” Then turned and left. I was so very pissed but telling them that made me feel better. Looked like two generations – an older couple maybe in their 70’s sitting with a younger couple, presumably a child of theirs with a spouse.
The game was great. Pitt won 86-59!
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brian stouder said on February 18, 2024 at 12:35 pm
Dorothy – well done!! And, not for nothin’, lemme just say that I’m as common/average/runna-the-mill as they come, and after 3 decades+ of steadily building our 401k account, plus paying for our (quite modest) house, my lovely wife and I are probably just north of that, too.
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Deborah said on February 18, 2024 at 3:28 pm
We’re in Southern California and of course a big storm is coming. We were supposed to go to Catalina Island yesterday and return on Monday but that was canceled because no one wants to be on that boat on the trip back. We are going to my husband’s sister’s place in Pasadena and they got 11” of rain during the last storm. So this should be fun. Thursday we leave for San Francisco and from there a few days later we go to Tokyo. Where I hope the weather is better.
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LAMary said on February 18, 2024 at 6:58 pm
That storm is raining all over the state, Deborah. LA and SF for sure. Beware of LA drivers. They suck at dealing with rain.
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