Do you take a vacation when a project you’re assigned to is in trouble at work? …when a family member is sick and in the hospital? …when money is tight and you are having trouble paying your bills?
N-O!
Then why the hell should the United States go on a gas tax holiday for the summer months?
Maybe if everyone else in the world really wanted to send a message to China, we’d stop buying all the products produced and manufactured there?
Wait, that would actually require personal (and national) sacrifice and accountability, along with *gasp* economic impliciations.
Yeah, you’re right, it’s better to protest one of the only remaining, enduring symbols of world peace and our collective membership in the human race–the Olympic Games.
Why the post? Oh, I was just surprised when I received a UPS tracking number for my second Chumby because it’s coming to Texas directly from the factory/warehouse in CHINA –
Reposted from Twitter because I’m too pissed off to want to blog it –
* Sigh. The tire we had patched last saturday (and left a camping trip early TO patch)? It’s FLAT.
Sadly, we all have these more often than we probably want to admit–a “what is the world coming to?” moment.
I’m having one at this moment–
My mother-in-law’s primary care physician was gunned down (killed) Friday at work, not far from where we live. Initial report — MySA.com: Metro | State
Updated report after investigation (no less tragic or senseless) — MySA.com: Metro | State — the killer is in the hospital, still breathing
; a San Antonio Police Department officer had to shoot him.
See Also:
San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) press release
Our A/C is dead — the compressor died and the coil is rusted. Justin’s there right now with the A/C guy, finding out what the $$ damage is going to be, but we’re relieved to hear there’s a no-interest payment plan so it isn’t the instant, lump sum financial drain we were (slowly) saving up for, but nowhere near meeting yet.
Our new system will be installed on Saturday…
Greeeat. Our air conditioner at the house died today. We knew it was coming, but not this soon. Bye bye cash savings/reserves, hello emergency withdrawal from funding sources we really, really hate dipping into.
To top it all off, we have to have our windows open tonight since the A/C system is dead. And guess who’s smoking pot at 11 PM? Our pothead neighbors. I don’t care what people do inside their own homes, within reason, but I am SO SICK of smelling pot smoke in my yard/garage/home.
