Wednesday morning: Busy, busy, busy

 
1. Welcome to cristiana5, marinda_4, and soteltie, 

2. I needed a little extra sleep this morning, so it was one of those very rare occasions when I did not chekc my e-mail first thing. I checked it when I got to work. Nothing that was gonna blow up the world or anything.

3. Several weeks ago, I posted a number of items for sale. I will re-post from home and add to them.

There were a number of people in the Boston area who wanted items. Please e-mail ne privately if you are going to be at May Day or around this weekend.

4. I was glad to see the Red Sox win last night.

5. I got a very nice note from the letters editor at The Day newspaper regarding my Day of Silence letter. She was away, and I guess no one else saw it. She liked it, thinks it still is relevant, and is running it tomorrow. I will link to it.

6. Thanks to all the folks who sent kind words.

Wednesday evening: Meanwhile, in the real world . . .

1. Today was a sucky day. Work sucked, and I waited around for an hour to go to a therapist's appointment. I got there a few minutes late, and he was nowhere to be found. I waited, went to the truck to check my pocket calendar, saw that I did indeed have an appointment, went back and waited, then finally left. (This is one of those places without a receptionist.

2. I was talking to the cats tonight, and something struck me.

I was saying: "No, you bozos. It's a can of tomato soup for Mommy. It's not gooshy-food. Now go away, you little heathens."

I recalled a "Far Side" cartoon and realized that all they heard was "gooshy-food."

3.  I sometimes get too easily annoyed. For instance, there are, I think, 30 journalists in jail in China. A radio announcer was going on about how their right to free speech was being violated. Umm . . .we have a right to free speech herein the U.S. It's the first amendment to the Constitution of the U.S.  I do not think China has any guarantee of freedom of speech.