Month: March 2010

Sorry, I love Joe Biden AND I talk that way myself. So I don’t have a problem with it. Give ’em hell, Joe. And thank you and everyone else who got us the new health care bill.

Where was I?

Filling out paperwork.

Because I’m a fed now and that’s what we do. It’s insane. I have to fill out a separate form for every person I help with the 2010 Census. I’m sure I could have designed a better form, one that could be used to cover everyone helped per shift.

I could have also designed a better payroll form, which I just learned are kicked back 15% of the time because someone filled them out wrong. I take that back. I’m looking at it and this one isn’t that bad really, the mistakes people are making are careless mistakes, it’s not a design issue. I guess the thing is, now that we know which sections people aren’t being careful about, maybe larger bold-faced type … and this is the most boring post ever, isn’t it? I’m done. Sorry.

Today will be my first and only day working for the Census, unless I get an enumerator job later. There was a mix-up about my schedule and so I was assigned one shift only. But I will be back with pictures!

Here’s Finney giving a good stretch. I love the splayed toes on that back paw. So cute. He’s saying, “Yup, we’ll be relaxing back here, looking cute for a living. Please don’t forget that the ‘bringing home the bacon’ line is meant to be taken literally. And bring home bacon, is what we’re saying. Thank you.”

Paul Krugman speaks for me. And I’m sorry anyone who disagrees with me. But I would not put anyone here in the same category as Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and others, so this editorial is not about you, okay? This is about them (I can’t believe Gingrich framing civil rights like it’s a bad thing) and John “There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year,” McCain’s total lack of grace.

Taken seconds ago on the roof. Love my pigeons. Sorry I was late guys.

I am so so so so happy about Health Care Reform. I just wish change would happen faster. I believe this will create a competitive environment that will drive premiums down, but that will take years and I can barely afford my insurance premiums now, which, by the way, recently went up an insane amount. No one can convince me that they didn’t do that knowing change was coming and they were going to squeeze everything they could out of me/us before it does. Bastards.

Well, you have to start somewhere. We’re all feeling a little safer now, though. Help is on the way. We can relax. A little.

Really freaking high. For instance, I climbed these stairs to Johnson Avenue. See how high up that is?

Well, right behind me there was another set of stairs, just as long and high, heading up to whatever the next avenue was. I should have climbed them to take a picture of the higher view, but I was anxious to get to the houses on the river.