Hump Day
All quiet on the homefront, so I figure I'd post something, say anything. Here goes.
After many days of triple digit temps, we've had a cooldown. This week has been and will be around 80 degrees tops. It's quite a welcome respite, save for one niggling annoyance: the wind. I've ragged about the wind in past posts which, along with fog, are my least favorite weather conditions. The crap that the wind stirs up have been a nuisance for allergy sufferers. There's also stuff that get blown over, our region having gone through just that only a few months ago. Trees. Power lines. Fences.
It is Wednesday, mid-week and often referred to as hump day. It's a mystery to me how calendars came about where weeks begin on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. If God rested on Sunday, wouldn't the week begin with a Monday and Thursday will be smack dab in the middle and become the hump day? Or we can credit the bankers for giving us the 9-to-5 M-F schedule that sandwiches Wednesday between two pairs of other work days.
Memorial Day weekend is around the corner and there are sales advertised everywhere I look. Kinda nice that I just received my stimulus check from Uncle Sam, except that it's all been spent (e.g. the insurance deductible and then some, for my motorcycle engine damage). I guess that's the latest excuse. Going back chronologically I could say that it had already been spent on the central heat and a/c replacement. Or last summer's vacation. Or a myriad of purchases hi-tech or home & garden related. Ad infinitum, but a buck's a buck.
Have a safe upcoming holiday weekend!
After many days of triple digit temps, we've had a cooldown. This week has been and will be around 80 degrees tops. It's quite a welcome respite, save for one niggling annoyance: the wind. I've ragged about the wind in past posts which, along with fog, are my least favorite weather conditions. The crap that the wind stirs up have been a nuisance for allergy sufferers. There's also stuff that get blown over, our region having gone through just that only a few months ago. Trees. Power lines. Fences.
It is Wednesday, mid-week and often referred to as hump day. It's a mystery to me how calendars came about where weeks begin on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. If God rested on Sunday, wouldn't the week begin with a Monday and Thursday will be smack dab in the middle and become the hump day? Or we can credit the bankers for giving us the 9-to-5 M-F schedule that sandwiches Wednesday between two pairs of other work days.
Memorial Day weekend is around the corner and there are sales advertised everywhere I look. Kinda nice that I just received my stimulus check from Uncle Sam, except that it's all been spent (e.g. the insurance deductible and then some, for my motorcycle engine damage). I guess that's the latest excuse. Going back chronologically I could say that it had already been spent on the central heat and a/c replacement. Or last summer's vacation. Or a myriad of purchases hi-tech or home & garden related. Ad infinitum, but a buck's a buck.
Have a safe upcoming holiday weekend!
posted @ 9:25 PM
5 Comments:
Wanna hear the big suck? It's hella windy outside and it's 10:40pm. And forecast to be windy thru possibly Saturday. As broadcasters begin migrating to HDTV (by 2/9/09), here's some food for thought: your over-the-air (OTA) TV programs using an antenna gets all f'd up by the wind. What better endorsement for cable than Ma Nature herself?
Correction: that's 2/17/09.
Another correction: broadcasters will be going DTV (the distinction being that the "D" means digital, and not "HD" as in hi-definition).
The wind still screws with it regardless. Suck.
:(
I guess at least you got some money to pay for whatever ails you.
Where can I sign up to pay to have the 40mph winds stop blowing? It finally stopped last nite (after downing tree limbs, etc. all over town).
I'm getting by on my 5-figure income, but dipping into my savings looks like there's not much left for retirement. Looks like work until death!
I'm not $avvy about finances and wish I was when I was starting out in adulthood. Proper investments probably woulda gotten me into the dotcom and out (b4 the bubble burst)... and I'd be all set.
So, I have friends/acquaintances pulling down 6-figures and nest eggs also as big. But, we're all in the middle. Less fortunate than some, more so than others. The middle.
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