{"id":37,"date":"2008-09-23T18:15:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-09-24T20:31:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T00:31:12","slug":"random-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkfluidity.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Random Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a political thing going on, in which two people are vying for the top spot in the US government.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re running ads, and saying a lot of things, which belittle their opponent.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is normal for an election.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a fact checker thing somewhere on CNN’s website where they determine a thing or two are true, a few outright false, but most are labeled misleading<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is both sides, by the way.<\/p>\n

There’s another thing going on, an economic thing, which has directly affected me and my day job, and has caused me to make changes I didn’t want to make.\u00c2\u00a0 This has been going on for a while, worsening and worsening in overall econmic terms while some people here or there step up and say, “Oh, it’s not as bad as everyone thinks.”\u00c2\u00a0 And now, after waiting and watching and waiting, someone’s decided it’s finally time to do something.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember, the current economic crisis<\/i> started with the real estate crash in 06\/07.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, quite suddenly, urgent action is required, and I know there’s only a week before Congress is meant to break for elections and such, but this absolutely has to be done now, now, now.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s urgent.\u00c2\u00a0 Because apparently, it wasn’t all that urgent a month ago, or a year ago.<\/p>\n

Seems to me that Congresspeople get more vacations than Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps I have the wrong day job.\u00c2\u00a0 My current day job doesn’t have a single paid holiday; forget about vacation time.<\/p>\n

My night job, too, has no paid leave, but that’s the writing.<\/p>\n

Some Olympic observations:<\/p>\n

Phelps can swim.<\/p>\n

Bolt: There is no better name for what he does.<\/p>\n

Who knew I could watch so much beach volleyball without actually being on a beach?<\/p>\n

The opening ceremonies were simply phenomenal.<\/p>\n

More observations as warranted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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