Since today was a holiday and my riding has been in the dumpster lately, I decided I should take today off in case I was either getting sick or in need of a rest, so I slept late and tried to relax. It worked - for an hour or so. Then I decided it was time to install the new wiper blades on the car and investigate why one of the speakers has stopped working. The former job required a bit of a field modification and the latter involved trying to re-solder an impossibly located wire to another impossibly located wire. The speaker now works, but probably won't for long. I then spent all afternoon at my mom's rental apartment where I installed a new toilet and three ceiling fans, arriving back home just in time to get a call from Megan, the Tulane student who is staying with us until her apartment is finished. She arrived about ten minutes later. Her computer couldn't deal with my router's security, so I went to disable it and somehow managed to screw up the whole network. I spent the next couple of hours trying to get the modem and router talking to each other again. So anyway, it was a long day and I never got out to play. On the plus side, it's always so satisfying when you install something and it actually works. Now my back hurts and I'm sure my neck will be sore tomorrow. Oh well. The chance of rain tomorrow morning is 50-60%. Damn.
Our esteemed mayor, playing up to the local (and specially imported) African American population at a MLK day ceremony, actually uttered the following: "We ask black people ... It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans -- the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans..." "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be."
Oh, is that what God wants? What was he thinking? I could almost hear the screams of his political advisors all the way uptown.
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