Dripping
Once again our property had pretty much dried up and once again mother nature dumped buckets of water on us. 2.5″ of rain in a couple hours yesterday flooded out our property once again. I’m really ready for winter and the drier weather to start kicking in. The frogs last night were deafening.
Again I was tired last night, tired enough that I fell asleep on the couch for a little bit while I was trying to zip through more Battlestar Galactica episodes.
I watch way too much tv, I was trying to think of all the shows that I watch within a typical week right now. These are all that I can think of although some of them I only catch bits and pieces of like DWTS.
Dancing with the Stars
Heroes
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
ER
Biggest Loser
Kitchen Nightmares
Wife Swap
Ultimate Fighter
Thank god for Tivo which allows us to cut approximately 25-30% off the length of each show by bypassing commercials.
Wow what a disaster in the stock market yesterday because the bail out wasn’t rubber stamped. Sovereign Bank, where I was on site for several years as a net admin had their stock fall almost 70% yesterday, incredible. If I still had my Ameritrade account active I would be snapping up their stock en masse at less than $2.50 per.
I haven’t really heard exactly why the bail out was held up. I am curious what was in there that red flagged it. It’s amazing that Wall Street at this point basically assumes that the government is obligated to bail out all of these firms that buried themselves with bad business practices. It sets a very bad precedent.
It’s ironic that the bill was basically defeated by Republicans. The bill pushed by Bush, pushed by McCain, killed by Republicans in congress looking to CYA. (cover your ass) The bottom line is this bill is not viewed favorably by American voters, regardless of the party. The politicans that are up for election this year don’t want a big red X against them by voting for it.
I’ve read that since the latest financial cluster f started that Obama picked up a few points in the polls. I don’t quite understand how fickle some people’s opinions seem to be when it comes to their presidential candidate.