Today is the day my son turns one. He walks, he giggles, he plays, he fights, cries and throws tantrums.
He loves the bath. He hates getting his hair washed.
He loves bananas, sweet potatoes and especially avacado. Not so fond of applesauce yet.
He loves music, dancing and singing. He’s got a weird thing for Beach Boys type surf rock. He’s good with Tom Petty and Barenaked Ladies. He also appreciates Daddy’s singing.
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So in case the few people who read my site don’t know, New Jersey’s in a massive budgetary crunch. Governor Jon Corzine, who is technically my boss, has decided he needs to close nine state parks to save a whopping $4.5 million dollars out of his $38 billion state budget.
It’s a whopping 0.011% of the state budget.
In comparison, in recent years, Corzine and cronies have pushed through borrowing $270 million dollars for stem cell research, amongst the myriad things like legislators double-dipping on their jobs, double-dipping their pensions and generally screwing we rank-and-file state employees by not funding our pensions.
Why is he doing this? We, as a population, said NO to his proposed toll hikes, which were rightfully exposed as a regressive tax on the middle class of this state. In a punitive measure, he has now declared he’s cutting state parks, cutting aid to public hospitals $108 million (0.28% of the state budget), cutting aid to state universities $76 million (0.2%), and eliminating the state Department of Agriculture to save $4 million (0.1%).
In several fell swoops of his ego, Corzine proposes cutting the poor and middle class out of this state entirely, and we who live here will eventually have no other choice but to move out and leave the rich and the party bosses alone in the mess they’ve created.
Corzine. Out. Now.
I have a friend named Rachel.
She’s selling a signed and unedited proof of Neil Gaiman’s second short story collection “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, published in 1998 - complete with a letter from the publisher found wedged between the pages.
She needs money for her myriad medical problems and prescriptions. Help her out, if you’re interested.
I knew it’d frigging fit. Lying liarsons of Lying, Lyoming.
So for everyone who asked, yes, today was much better than yesterday.
First off, the Dish TV guy got everything hooked up perfect, and I now have MSG network and NFL network. I have 2 dishes on my house now, too.
We got our new split-queen boxspring and we now have a REAL bed again. Now we have to find out where the heck our baggies of screws went to put Mikey’s crib back together.
The dryer was delivered and it is really, really nice. It matches enough. And it dries clothes.
Oh, and the Giants are going to the Super Bowl. Who’s coming over?
We here at LydenCorp would like to extend our hearty congratulations to all employees for a fantastic year. Highlights follow…
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So yeah.
Some may remember this cryptic post from quite a while back. That was the first inkling of the possibility of the following announcement:
I have interviewed, passed the gauntlet, been offered and have accepted the offer of a promotion within my division at Rowan from Desktop Support to Junior Network Admin, Cisco Stuff.
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we put in an offer on a house in Mullica Hill and it’s been accepted.
3 BR, 2.5 BA with a basement and a garage.
Holy crap, I say. Holy CRAP!!
Great deal. Now we just have to move on to contracts and mortgages.
OK, so I haven’t written anything since September. I’ve been wary, what can I say?
I’m willing to admit that I’m frustrated and upset over how things have been regarding North Carolina. At last count I’ve put about 30 or 40 resumes out there and come away with 1 phone interview and a screening that led to a face to face that went nowhere only after pushing me up and down like a sine wave for two weeks. If you’re still reading, Stephen (or anyone else from the department), I know it wasn’t personal. I haven’t checked the logs for any hits from duke.edu lately but I’m not really worrying about that anymore.
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