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by Tim F|  July 22, 20102:44 pm| 43 Comments

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The contractor finally arrived to fix the giant hole where our concrete stairs used to be before the water company tore it up to fix the sewer leak/subsidence problem, but only my duplex neighbor knows whether the contractor is supposed to fix the sidewalk as well as the stairs and my neighbor is in Central America. Our puppy is frantic because he can’t reach my lawn because of the concrete work and my wife, who stayed home for a week to take care of the new puppy, is frantic because the puppy is pooping on the floor. I haven’t had meaningful sleep in four days (five? can’t remember) and my experiments have stopped working.

I do not want to know about your day. Yell at each other about Rahm or something.

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  1. 1.

    licensed to kill time

    July 22, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    Probably everybody has seen this already, but this DGA ‘Never Surrender’ video from over at Benen’s place made me smile. ‘Cause I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!

  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    July 22, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    My day? It’s been asi asi, thanks for asking. Working from home today and my mom’s over playing with my son so I’ve been doing this really interesting experiment with using a new search paradigm to separate factors relevant to interpolation of the basic model related to…
    Oh. You said “do not”. My bad.

  3. 3.

    AnnaN

    July 22, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    Mmmmmmm, Rahm.

  4. 4.

    wilfred

    July 22, 2010 at 2:57 pm

    Finally, Idealism and Materialism come together:

    Now a particularly enduring Catholic practice is on prominent display in, of all places, Florence’s history of science museum, recently renovated and renamed to honor Galileo: Modern-day supporters of the famous heretic are exhibiting newly recovered bits of his body — three fingers and a gnarly molar sliced from his corpse nearly a century after he died — as if they were the relics of an actual saint. “He’s a secular saint, and relics are an important symbol of his fight for freedom of thought,” said Paolo Galluzzi, the director of the Galileo Museum, which put the tooth, thumb and index finger on view last month, uniting them with another of the scientist’s digits already in its collection. “He’s a hero and martyr to science,” he added.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary

    July 22, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    So this is the thread where we post our Rahm slash? OK, just give me a few minutes here to get started.

  6. 6.

    Comrade Mary

    July 22, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    @wilfred: I presume the Vatican has the middle finger.

  7. 7.

    Linda Featheringill

    July 22, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    Poor baby. Poor wife. Poor puppy.

    How is my day coming along? Thanks. It is . . . .. .

  8. 8.

    ruemara

    July 22, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    too little coffee, too much work and I’m hosting students come saturday night. Oh well, they will learn that chaos is American, fuck yeah!

  9. 9.

    Michael

    July 22, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    Blame Obama. It is all his fault that your wife is stuck indoors with the puppy.

  10. 10.

    me

    July 22, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    @wilfred: That’s an really good museum. All kinds of ancient scientific instruments. If you’re ever in Florence, it’s behind the Uffizi, most people miss it.

  11. 11.

    Punchy

    July 22, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    Maybe if you showered with Rahm he’d fix your sidewalk and your wife at the same time. No, wait…maybe she should shower with Ra….no, that cant be it…..

  12. 12.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    July 22, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    I’ve been reading Daredevil (v2 106-114) and hoping that the weather here in Chicago would make good on it’s threats and start raining. Not much work being done at this desk.

    And now Randi Rhodes is on.

  13. 13.

    jeffreyw

    July 22, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    First real tomato harvest has been juiced out and is now reducing on the stove with a buncha herbs and garlic. Mmm…smells good already and it’s just now at a simmer.

  14. 14.

    Culture of Truth

    July 22, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Rahm threw a whale on my sailboat!!

  15. 15.

    wilfred

    July 22, 2010 at 3:12 pm

    @me:

    I just found a new business – the relics of secular saints. What about indulgences?

    Brecht would have had a joy with this.

  16. 16.

    Culture of Truth

    July 22, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    Galileo’s finger has been on display for a long time, though. I believe at one time my blog was top hit for googling galileo’s finger

  17. 17.

    QuaintIrene

    July 22, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Who are you experimenting on?

  18. 18.

    Tim F.

    July 22, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Galileo’s middle finger has sentimental value of almost inestimable worth. E pur si muove.

  19. 19.

    R-Jud

    July 22, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    Ah, so that’s where you’ve been, Tim F. In hell.

  20. 20.

    Tim F.

    July 22, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    @QuaintIrene: Grad students, if they don’t start ordering reagents that they use up.

  21. 21.

    me

    July 22, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    @wilfred: Well, I don’t recall them having bits of Galileo there when I was there. It’s definitely a bit weird.

  22. 22.

    Zandar

    July 22, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    Harry Reid just killed the Climate Change bill. Won’t even get a vote. No Republicans.

  23. 23.

    Kristine

    July 22, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    @Culture of Truth

    Rahm threw a whale on my sailboat!!

    FTW!!

    ::laughing::

  24. 24.

    LGRooney

    July 22, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    Tim F., it’s more interesting if someone steps in it, a la JC.

    @Zandar: Wonderful!! I hope it’s the multi-dimensional chess I hear so much about. I mean, it’s not like 9 of the past 10 years have been the hottest on record or anything.

    Heat index of 111 forecast for DC on Saturday!! Wonder if there will be any H2O in the Potomac or Shenandoah at Harper’s Ferry so I can go swim up there since our pool will offer no relief in that heat.

  25. 25.

    Martin

    July 22, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    @QuaintIrene: I’m guessing it’s a study of wife and dog behavior and the presence of stairs. I’d test to see if booze is able to counteract the effects. My hypothesis is that it should in high enough quantities.

  26. 26.

    Leonard Stiltskin

    July 22, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    For those of you that care, that paragon of small-government conservatism, Gov. Chris Christie (R-Fatass), has announced, by executive order, a government takeover of Atlantic City’s casino district and dismantling of the state horse-racing industry.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    July 22, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    Just getting ready to go out in the boiling heat (94) to pimp some media for the Man at the store (which at least has good AC). Back before midnight, I hope.

  28. 28.

    Culture of Truth

    July 22, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Small government Christie also wants to give $2 billion to Xanadu, , which I believe means “Land of the Corrupt Contractor” in Algonquin.

  29. 29.

    Kirk Spencer

    July 22, 2010 at 3:36 pm

    Trade you. Tomorrow is my two year anniversary of starting unemployment. I’ll spare you the interesting details of a frozen industry and living in the donut of too much to get assistance but too little to ignore the problem.

  30. 30.

    EDantes

    July 22, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    I do not want to know about your day. Yell at each other about Rahm or something.

    Is it alright if I tell you this made me smile?

  31. 31.

    Bnut

    July 22, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    McMegan doesn’t like Elizabeth Warren.

  32. 32.

    New Yorker

    July 22, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    Can I tell you about my day yesterday? I visited Gettysburg for the first time, and for as much I bitch about how messed up this country can be at times, there’s something to be said about progress when the two states with the biggest monuments on the Confederate side, Virginia and North Carolina, both helped elect Barack Obama in 2008.

  33. 33.

    ellaesther

    July 22, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    I can’t pick a winner!

    Is it Michael with
    Blame Obama. It is all his fault that your wife is stuck indoors with the puppy. ?

    Or maybe Punchy, with Maybe if you showered with Rahm he’d fix your sidewalk and your wife at the same time. No, wait…maybe she should shower with Ra….no, that cant be it….. ?

    Or is it, possibly, Culture of Truth, with Rahm threw a whale on my sailboat!! ?

    Oy, spoiled for choice, and laughing too hard to make one!

  34. 34.

    YellowJournalism

    July 22, 2010 at 5:27 pm

    @Punchy: The mechanics of that would be interesting, to say the least.

  35. 35.

    Sentient Puddle

    July 22, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    @Bnut: Oh God, how it starts…

    I have a long and complicated history with Elizabeth Warren, so allow me a moment to offer my long and complicated thoughts on her. Really long. So long that I had to break it into two parts–scholarship and public life–in order to prevent the nausea, daytime sleepyness, and intracranial bleeding that might otherwise result. Consider yourselves warned.

    I’ll take “Signs You Need an Editor” for $1000.

  36. 36.

    PurpleGirl

    July 22, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    I want to compliment the NYS Dept. of Motor Vehicles. My non-driver ID card expired in November 2009. The letter/form fell into a pile of paper and I’d forgotten about it. I was sorting that pile of paper for tossing and found the form two days ago. Today I went to the License Express office and was in and out in about 35 minutes. I get the new card within 10 days. I made one clerk laugh, explaining to her how the envelope got lost and I found it when cleaning out some paper. All the DMV people I talked with today were nice and pleasant. And the time passed since I should have renewed the card wasn’t even a problem. So I had a good day.

  37. 37.

    Sentient Puddle

    July 22, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    @Sentient Puddle: And I’ll add that she at least wasn’t kidding about it inducing sleepiness. I tried to read the article, and couldn’t make it through more than a few paragraphs of faux-wonkery before I thought to myself “Fuck it, I’ll skim to see if there’s anything that looks like a reasonable point,” and came up with nothing.

  38. 38.

    QuaintIrene

    July 22, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    Small government Christie also wants to give $2 billion to Xanadu,

    Oh, for fuck’s sake. That hideous boondoggle should have been given up a couple years ago, and sunk into the meadowlands marshes.

  39. 39.

    Lurker

    July 22, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    Here’s pictures of costumed geeks counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church at the San Diego Comic-Con today. My favorite so far is the Trekkie holding up a “God Hates Jedi” sign.

  40. 40.

    Ash Can

    July 22, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    @Sentient Puddle #35: The girl’s a marketing genius. It sure sounds like she wants people to actually, you know, read her article, doesn’t it?

  41. 41.

    Bnut

    July 22, 2010 at 6:06 pm

    @Sentient Puddle:

    You must not live in NYC. I spent 4 hours at the Brooklyn DMV last month.

  42. 42.

    PurpleGirl

    July 22, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    @Bnut: I think you meant to respond to me, PurpleGirl. And I’ve lived in NYC for my whole life. I was just renewing the ID card and I went to the License Express office on 34th St, off 8th Avenue. All they do is process license renewals and non-driver ID cards and a few parking ticket situations. No new licenses, no tests… just the simple renewals. When I went in I got number B200 and they were in the middle of the B140s. It took about 20 minutes to get to B200. I know some offices are horror shows, but since I just had the renewal, I decided to go to the License Express office and not to one of the full service offices like Jamaica (in Queens where I live) or Herald Square.

  43. 43.

    JohnR

    July 22, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    “my experiments have stopped working.”

    Hey, I had an experiment work today! We broke for a 2-hour lab party in celebration..
    Otherwise, hot; glittery, glary, hazy, “He was such a quiet neighbor – I didn’t even know he owned a 36″ chainsaw!” kind of hot. Good thing I work in air conditioned splendor.

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