Well, today came pretty close to being a good day.
I didn't have too many stops, or too many cases to deliver, but after I was finished with my last stop, I was tidying up the cab of the truck for a minute, and a vehicle pulled up behind me so close that I couldn't see it in either of my mirrors. I had to back up to get around a vehicle that was parked in front of me, and the vehicle that was parked behind me was so close that while I felt and heard the touch, I didnt' think anything of it, the truck is always banging and lurching about all day long. When I saw this woman yelling at me my first thought was that I had hit a pedestrian.
I had pushed a jeep back about four feet in the slush, the imact was light enough that what visible damage there was consisted of the P in jeep having broken off the hood, and a couple light scuff marks. Maybe he won't be able to open his hood, but I didn't ask. But more importantly his wife was getting out of the vehicle when I hit them and her shoulder was injured somehow. I'm really sorry that happened, but I daresay she'll be alright. She was well enough yell at me a good bit before they took her away in the ambulance.
The police officer who came issued a citation to the driver of the jeep for following too closely, and he was parked illegally.
You know, I just want to earn a fucking paycheck.
I was going to blog about happier and stupider things. I was going to say that maybe I'm now officially an old fart because I rented movie and it refused to play in my dvd player or on my computer, so I took it back and said it was damaged and unplayable. The clerk girl asked me If I had a blue ray player, I said uhh, no, and she kindly switched it for a regular dvd for me. So I was defeated by a piece of technology that surfaced below my radar. On the other hand, earlier the same day I'd bought something off ebay using paypal for the first time, where I had always paid by money order on previous occasions. So I was viewing myself as keeping up with the times.
Another stupid happer thought had to do with having heard during periods of campaign coverage that Dan Quayle was not sufficiently vetted for the vice presidency. This gives rise in my mind to the question, do I in fact know that Dan Quayle was not sufficiently vetted for the VP if I do not in fact know what "vetted" means? Certainly I could look up the term, but I would imagine that the question is more stimulating the answer would be.
I feel kind of bad for outgoing president W. I know he fully deserves most of the disapproval that he has received, and he wasn't up to the job, but I think he would have liked to have been a better president than he was. He started his presidency wanting to be an education president. He was visiting a school when he was given the news of the 9/11 attacks.
Sometimes I think it was his responsibilty to understand that the war on terror is not a frontal war. But that's not entirely true, it wasn't the wrong idea to attempt to root bin laden out of his cave in afghanistan, but he liked being a war president too much, and got us into this mess in iraq.
He didn't leave the country a better place than he found it.
I think that the financial crisis can be viewed from an ideological standpoint, in that republicans think that only investors are important, and workers don't matter. The sub prime mortgage fiasco is about giving people the opportunity to become investors when they truly cannot afford to be, and about permitting predatory lending practices to take advantage of such people. Republicanism cannot address the needs of people as workers, and its failure to do so led to those workers failing to succeed as investors(in real estate). Without a strong and well paid labor force, an economic boom is hollow, the fabulously wealthy rack up big numbers until the unsustainable system they have built finally collapses.
The situation is not unliike what happened back in 1929. People were able to exercise massive financial leverage, buying stocks on margin, until the bubble finally burst, and the stocks lost all their value because the people who owned the stocks did not actually have any money to pay for them. FF to 2008, the exact same thing happens to home values, whent he people who own the homes cannot pay for them.
I don't know if any of this is worth the bits it's written on a server in, but whatever.
I didn't have too many stops, or too many cases to deliver, but after I was finished with my last stop, I was tidying up the cab of the truck for a minute, and a vehicle pulled up behind me so close that I couldn't see it in either of my mirrors. I had to back up to get around a vehicle that was parked in front of me, and the vehicle that was parked behind me was so close that while I felt and heard the touch, I didnt' think anything of it, the truck is always banging and lurching about all day long. When I saw this woman yelling at me my first thought was that I had hit a pedestrian.
I had pushed a jeep back about four feet in the slush, the imact was light enough that what visible damage there was consisted of the P in jeep having broken off the hood, and a couple light scuff marks. Maybe he won't be able to open his hood, but I didn't ask. But more importantly his wife was getting out of the vehicle when I hit them and her shoulder was injured somehow. I'm really sorry that happened, but I daresay she'll be alright. She was well enough yell at me a good bit before they took her away in the ambulance.
The police officer who came issued a citation to the driver of the jeep for following too closely, and he was parked illegally.
You know, I just want to earn a fucking paycheck.
I was going to blog about happier and stupider things. I was going to say that maybe I'm now officially an old fart because I rented movie and it refused to play in my dvd player or on my computer, so I took it back and said it was damaged and unplayable. The clerk girl asked me If I had a blue ray player, I said uhh, no, and she kindly switched it for a regular dvd for me. So I was defeated by a piece of technology that surfaced below my radar. On the other hand, earlier the same day I'd bought something off ebay using paypal for the first time, where I had always paid by money order on previous occasions. So I was viewing myself as keeping up with the times.
Another stupid happer thought had to do with having heard during periods of campaign coverage that Dan Quayle was not sufficiently vetted for the vice presidency. This gives rise in my mind to the question, do I in fact know that Dan Quayle was not sufficiently vetted for the VP if I do not in fact know what "vetted" means? Certainly I could look up the term, but I would imagine that the question is more stimulating the answer would be.
I feel kind of bad for outgoing president W. I know he fully deserves most of the disapproval that he has received, and he wasn't up to the job, but I think he would have liked to have been a better president than he was. He started his presidency wanting to be an education president. He was visiting a school when he was given the news of the 9/11 attacks.
Sometimes I think it was his responsibilty to understand that the war on terror is not a frontal war. But that's not entirely true, it wasn't the wrong idea to attempt to root bin laden out of his cave in afghanistan, but he liked being a war president too much, and got us into this mess in iraq.
He didn't leave the country a better place than he found it.
I think that the financial crisis can be viewed from an ideological standpoint, in that republicans think that only investors are important, and workers don't matter. The sub prime mortgage fiasco is about giving people the opportunity to become investors when they truly cannot afford to be, and about permitting predatory lending practices to take advantage of such people. Republicanism cannot address the needs of people as workers, and its failure to do so led to those workers failing to succeed as investors(in real estate). Without a strong and well paid labor force, an economic boom is hollow, the fabulously wealthy rack up big numbers until the unsustainable system they have built finally collapses.
The situation is not unliike what happened back in 1929. People were able to exercise massive financial leverage, buying stocks on margin, until the bubble finally burst, and the stocks lost all their value because the people who owned the stocks did not actually have any money to pay for them. FF to 2008, the exact same thing happens to home values, whent he people who own the homes cannot pay for them.
I don't know if any of this is worth the bits it's written on a server in, but whatever.
dika:
awww thank ya very much darling