I love the movie, ‘The Incredibles‘. I own the DVD and watch it not infrequently.
Saturday, I discovered a defect in the movie. Here’s the problem, Syndrome didn’t know Mr. Incredible was married to Elastigirl, or that they had kids. He expressed surprise at discovering this when he caught them on his island. Then he sends his robot to destroy the town, gets knocked out, and the Incredibles save the day. So, he wakes up and goes and takes Jack Jack hostage. My question is, how did he know about Jack Jack?
I am very disappoited to realize this defect in the plot. Marring my image of perfection.

On the other hand, Galaxy Quest truly is an absolutely perfect movie!

I had a good weekend, I bought a weed whacker, an whacked the whole yard. It sure doesn’t look new anymore!
I didn’t pick up any rocks. That’ll be this afternoon, if I can.
I’m stressed to be back at work. I feel like I have more to do, and am getting less done than normal.
I have a TON of work to do.

The OI Girl is going to the Brac this weekend, I have the weekend to take care of the dawgs. I’ll probably take them to the beach, weedwhack, and pick up rocks.
whooooo hooooooo!

Today is Yom Kippur. I was going to go to Services last night, but didn’t. Now I’m plagued with guilt. There’s services again today, but I wasn’t planning on going, but I feel guilty about not participating at all.
I think this is the first year there have been services here.

Don’t know what to post today. Monday, it seemed like I had a bad attitude, yesterday, it seemed better, today it seems cruddy again. I’d rather not be at work, and not so overloadedly busy.

You know what else? It occurred to me last night that I’d never even heard of either presidential candidate till they started running.

I haven’t mentioned the dawgs in a while. Sheba is doing better, her personality has come out a lot since she was an outdoor dog, tied to a tree all day, with minimal human contact.
She’s mostly house trained, she still pees because she’s so happy when we get home. But it’s just a little teeny puddle. She almost doesn’t jump up on you anymore, but she thinks it only means me, you have to tell her “No Jumping!” yourself.

She’s a little shit. She comes and sits on your feet when you’re trying to put your shoes on, push her away, and she’ll dramatically fall over and lay there, belly up, looking at you with a grin on her face and her huge pink tongue hanging out of her mouth. She does things she knows she’s not supposed to do. She ate part of a spiny prickly plant you wouldn’t think she’d eat. She admitted guilt by refusing to come when called about it. She knows I know she knew better when she did it. You tell her to stay and she can slither like a snake to try and sneak away anyway. She’s very jealous, and if you pet Ditto, she’ll try to get in between you and him.

Ditto is still the same old sage, perfect gentleman. Almost. He peed on the porch the other day, didn’t even try to hide it, I heard running water, looked over and WTF!! I think he thought it was allowed, or he thought Sheba would be blamed. I doubt he’ll do it again.
Above is a pic the OI Girl took.

I’m back at work on a Monday after a mostly rainy weekend. It was sunny yesterday afternoon and I put my boots out to dry and then last night it rained and got them all wet again. Sunday during the sunny spell I picked up more rocks from the yard. I feel like a crazy person picking up rocks, and I feel like I’m making no progress, but when I stop and look from farther away I can tell there’s less rocks. Plus the rocks are getting smaller and smaller, which is another sign of progress.
But there’s sections I haven’t even raked yet, and the weeds are growing tall again. I went to buy a weed whacker last weekend (not yesterdays weekend) but everyone was out of them. Maybe this week.
I got a message from the phone co saying my phone will be cut off if I don’t pay the bill. Funny, I paid it online, 26 Sep 2008, gotta get that sorted today as well.

I WAS going to copy Graven Images post called ‘God Save the Queen’ because the Queen of England could do a hellova better job of running the USA than any president in the past 20 years, maybe longer. Please go read it!

Instead I want to ask about this bailout thing that’s going on. How’s that going to work? Lets see, a lot of the US is running on credit cards, people can’t pay their bills, and not paying mortgages, so the banks are going out of business because they’re not receiving their money. So the government is going to pass out $700 billion dollars to who? the banks? Why? So the banks can pay their operating costs and stay in business? How is the money going to help the people? Is the bank going to issue more credit cards? Plus, the banks’re getting $700 Billion from the government, they’ll still go after the people who owe them money. Will they get double money? Or will they forgive debt?

Suppose I pay my bills, I don’t have a big debt. But I’m scrimping and saving while my neighbor is spending like crazy, maxxing out one credit card after the other, not earning enough to afford all the stuff he keeps on buying. Pouring his entire paychecks back to these irresponsible lenders with their astronomical interest rates, and not paying his mortgage. Will he be forgiven his debt, and get to keep all his stuff he charged? While I get to keep on making payments? If so, I shoulda been doing the same thing. Every day I got a pre-approved credit card in the mail!

When I lived in the US, I was paying a good solid 30% of my income on taxes. It seemed like very time I got a pay raise, I moved to a higher tax bracket and my paycheck got smaller. When tax time came, I owed every penny I could lay my hands on.

It seems like everything in the US is geared to fuck you over. It costs 25 cents to put air in your bicycle tires now! Buy a car, no payments for two years! Furniture! We tripled the price so we could halve it for you! I was eating beans and rice, the cheapest food I could find, working two jobs, while someone not working at all is eating steaks, driving a BMW and using food stamps. My damn money. When I was a kid, one person could work and support a family, then some of my friends Moms started working too, how weird. Then MY Mom stared working! Now, it I think everyone is working and not making ends meet. (Or not working at all, and doing fine.) And it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Since the Euro was introduced, the US dollar has done nothing but go down down down. I hate to say it, but I think it’s because the black market doesn’t need the US dollar anymore.

Again there is nobody worthwhile running for president. The guy with the ex beauty queen vice president will probably win, because the US likes electing movie stars. It’s become a popularity contest. The mentality seems to be ‘I wanna find out who’s gonna win, so I can vote for the winner!’ Long time ago there were good candidates, then, I used to have to vote against somebody, now there’s nobody even running so I don’t bother

This bailout is just prolonging the inevitable, the only way is to get the individuals out of debt and teach them to live within their means and quit handing out money. I thought the US used to have gold to match every dollar they print, but now I think they just print money and hand it out.

I’m not saying everyone is like this, but that’s how the whole country looks to the world.

Living outside the US, I have learned that the US economy has always been bad for most of my life, even when it’s supposedly good.

Not much to post about today, Thursday, cloudy, probably going to rain. At work I have to run some cables, and I have some unfinished jobs to try and get done.