It started yesterday afternoon with Verizon. Or maybe it started with the blood pressure monitor beeping and the unsuccessful attempts to lower mom's blood pressure. I don't know. I just know the monitor was beeping, my phone wasn't working, and the worst representative in the world from Verizon was explaining to me how phones are now computers like I just arrived here from outer space. When I told her I wasn't happy with her service and wanted to speak to someone else, she told me I was going to hear the same thing from anyone else. That's when I turned the corner I think. I told her I didn't ask her to tell me what someone else might say to me, I asked for a number for someone else to speak to. Then I wrote the website and called her criminally incompetent. I'm not sure how much is just being wrung out by ill parents and well parents making themselves mentally ill with sleep deprivation and stress plus regular life stuff but I am irritable as hell. I think only the people who know me know I'm really irritated because when I called my boss out on this furlough business letting him know I did take his decision personally and no matter what happened I was going to remember he had a choice and chose me, while I was candid, even by my standards, I don't feel he really felt the burn of what I was saying. My dad has that problem sometimes. He says things in such a way that people are more inclined to think he's wickedly caustic instead of really terribly serious. I think he actually told one of the doctors treating my mom that he would either have a friend for life or his last enemy. I don't know how he gets away with this stuff. Maybe because its clever and he's smiling when he says it so a person can walk away and only later think, WTH?! I think that guy meant he was going to kill me if things didn't go well.
BBC is reporting that we've all got a stay of execution for at least another month on the furlough and the adage of the month, danger averted was never really dangerous at all comes to mind in the exercise of the last few days when productivity was directed towards figuring out how to be less productive. I feel about the same as I did during the infamous hanging chad debate on who actually won the 2000 election. I was overseas at the time and it was embarrassing. The Brits sent me a joke e-mail declaring the great experiment of American democracy a failure. The email also announced their intention to bring America back under the British Commonwealth. Ha-ha, that's hillarious. Both then and now, both sides get a big F. The last time we had this kind of shut down it was also Republican stonewalling adventure against a Democratic president (Clinton). I wasn't a fan of Pelosi as just a human being but seriously Republicans? I'm so tired of the revival of irrelvant debates, tired of being emotionally agitated by the newsertainment that dominates our media. One has to work hard to even try to understand what the f is really going on because it is in each sides interest to distill their issue into the simplest most palatable sound bite and demonize the other side's position. Let's face it America, 9/10ths of us would be happy to just live and let live/die/whatever. We care about the air and water in mostly an abstract way, we just don't want to be uncomfortable or get sick from either one. We want to be able to attain a reasonable standard of living (totally relative), and if asked if we want more will always say yes. We will say no to anything you propose to take away, even if we aren't using it. The evil in poisoning the discourse to the point it isn't productive is I think it's a smokescreen to get people all wrapped up in what a scary idiot Sarah Palin is so we don't pay any attention to what people who are actually in government are doing. We get wrapped up in statistics that will probably never apply to us and take a position simply because we were offered a question to have an opinion on. Not because we are actually substantive on the issue.
Fun times. I'm long overdue for the gym. Need to bleed off the rage-o-meter so I can stop scaring my friends.
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