Friday, February 13, 2009

Same Stuff We Have Had

It began snowing today at about 11 a.m. and did not stop till about 4 p.m. and we got at least seven inches of the stuff, which froze and made havoc of the Friday rushhour. Cars sliding all over the place, and several school buses slid off the streets, and now at 2 a.m. the streets are solid ice and the wind has started to blow loudly. I know, this is normal seasonal winter weather, but it is making everyone grouchy and depressed. The economy news is its usual gloom and dreariness. The Stimulus bill got passed today by the Dems. I suppose the news on what it is supposed to do can be found on miriads of news and opinion websites. I do not think the bill is going to really create all the millions of jobs Obama says it will create. I woke up yesterday morning to watch Red Eye, and all the news was about the commuter plane crash outside Buffalo NY that killed 49 people--all burned up when the plane burst into flames. There was a brief mention the other day that actor James Whitmore had died, but with everything else going on in the world there seems to have been mention of him on any TV news shows. Sad, because he had had a very long succesful acting career. Yesterday was the official 200th birthday of Abe Lincoln. Netanyahu has won the Israeli election, over Zippi Livni. Hugo Chavez wants to be allowed to stay in power forever, with the end of term limits for Venezuelan honchos. A suicide bomber--a woman--blew up herself and maybe 40 Shiite women and kids in Karbala. The fires in south Australia have finally been put out. There was a lot of news coverage from Oz the other day about a singed baby koala someone found. And in animal news a ten year old spaniel named Stump won the Westminster dog show. He looks like a nice old doggie. Uno the beagle can now retire. This is going to be all for right now. I should sleep for a little while to get ready for the ordeal of going out in the Saturday traffic tomorrow with the streets iced up. You all stay warm till spring finally arrives. Di di mau!

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Six More Weeks of Winter

Groundhog Day was today. Phil in Pennsylvania say his shadow after he was pulled out of his tree and held up and then put on a table, and the head honcho of the festivities said that Phil had seen his shadow and there will be 6 more weeks of winter. So, the warmish weather in the midwest turned cold this afternoon, and the arctic wind has come back. So, maybe by the middle of March we will get the beginnings of Spring. March and April are unpredictible for weather. It may be a while till the shorts-sandals-Tshirts season gets here. At FEMA they are probably praying for a calm spring and summer with no or mild tornadoes and hurricanes, since there may be little money in the US treasury to pay for any major weather disasters. The ice storms that hit Arkansas and Kentucky last week knocked down thousands of power poles and electric lines and about half a million people are electricityless. A volcano in southern Alaska has been rumbling and in Anchorage people are waiting to see if ash covers the city, like happened in Washington when St. Helen's blew up about 30 years ago. Mike Phelps got caught sniffing something from a bong at the U of South Carolina back in November. The Super Bowl was an exciting game in the last quarter last night. The Steelers finally won. More next blogging. The woman in California who had 8 babies has 6 other kids(3 sets of twins), no job, and no man(the kids are all testtube). Her parents are not happy about the whole thing. Obama is having trouble filling his Cabinet, because he keeps picking honchos with bad tax problems. Daschle is behind payment on 145 thousand bucks, and claims he didn't know he was delinquent. It was a busy week for Events, and I should get into some news websites to see what has been going on, and it would not hurt to read some newspapers to see what is going on. My first winter of being retired has become very disorganized, and I need to get Life organized, since I have a long time to live in this phase of life. More and more people are losing their jobs. The Macys company is laying off at least 7,000 people. I suppose that will hit the Marshal Fields store in Chicago. I have been doing a lot of writing about the weather, but Weather affects our lives. This is going to be all for right now. More later. Di di mau!