Oh for the love of Christ.

Runoff from all the rain is over whelming the wastewater collection system and there's a major sewer main break that's going to keep a section of CApital Circle (one of hte main roads in town) closed for at least week.

The City has made the very reasonable request that people limit their in home water intake by limiting the use of dishwashers and washing machines. That's pretty much verbatim.

In the comment section on the paper's website someone left this comment:

So, the City of Tallahassee says:

1. Let your dishes pile up and maybe use paper plates! The next thing is to tell us that the landfill is too full, so don't throw away too much trash!

2. Don't wash you dirty clothes & go buy new ones! Then you will be improving the ecomony at Wally Mart and thus increasing the revenue at City Hall by the extra SALES TAX @ 7.5%

All of this sounds like a logical plan to be followed for at least the next 2 weeks! Yeah sure?

What I wanted to say was "Seems reasonable to me, I'm sure you'd hate it if shit started coming in your house because some asshole had to run his/her dishwasher and washing machine every day several times a day."

Instead I pointed out that it said, "limit" the use, they weren't forbiding it and what's so hard about doing this and being courteous to our neighbors so people don't have sewage in their homes.

There's always some bonehead who doesn't read the instructions thoroughly and blames it on the person who wrote them. Like the guy who wrote to a newspaper (I wish I could find the original letter) to complain about all the problems it caused when he tried to save water by putting a brick in his toilet bowl as the paper suggested. The editor replied that the brick is supposed to go in the tank.

askye, this is one of the many reasons one of my best friends refers to it as "Talla-nasty".

Sometimes I wish the NY Times had comment sections for their articles, but then I remember that virtually every newspaper comment thread I've ever encountered is full of reactionary tools like that.

Been in my apartment in Colorado for a month and 24 days. Just hung pictures. Not done, but am pooped. Why is this such a mentally exhausting process?

Yes, part of the process included culling me & STBX pictures and picking which kid pix to give him since we didn't really do much of that on the packing end.

And how is it that the more I hang, the larger the to-do pile appears?

Of course, I also have a seekrit teevee crush on Dean Stockwell, as well.

This is only natural.

I never saw the finale of Quantum Leap. I guess I should do that. I never followed it religiously, but I did like many of the eps I saw.

QL was my first online fandom. I think I still have some of my notes for my (decidedly Mary Sue-ish) sequel epic thing.

Oh dear Lord the finale. I still have a strong impulse to fix it, dammit, because I love(d) those character (especially Al) and wanted it to work out ok.

And The Leap Home (which was at least a 2-parter, with him going back to himself at his childhood home and then to Vietnam with his brother).

I actually think that that's a series that, in the right hands, could be re-made really well with current sensibilities and what-we-can-get-away-with.

Suzi, I feel you on the moving being exhausting. Just so much crap to deal with.

K-Bug moved into her dorms and finally unpacked the new printer she got in April. The scanner glass was shattered. Dell, bless them, are sending a new printer.

Man, Quantum Leap is one of those shows I loved so much, I'm afraid to watch it now. But the happy memories are vivid.

I just purchased another truck for my business. I'm waiting for it to be washed and handed over to me.