Well, all hope is lost for either collecting our award in person, or somehow giving a remote acceptance speech. So now we will await the arrival of the tasteful Lucite award, with genuine hardwood stand. For the moment there is nothing left to do but get back to our core function.
This is an odd item that I saw in our local newspaper this morning. It seems that if the sidewalk in front of your house should buckle or crack, the city will send you a notice to repair it a your expense. Who knew?
In our fair city, and I suspect many others, if you build a house or commercial building, the city will demand that you construct a sidewalk in the public right-of-way, for the benefit of the public. Now it seems if that sidewalk fails, the property owner gets to repair it. Plus you have to get a city permit to do it, build it to city specs and have the city inspect it.
I suppose that there is a certain logic in that if the sidewalk was built by a private home builder, but many of our sidewalks were built by the city itself, and they apparently make no allowance for this. The property owner is still on the hook for rrepairs.
Luckily for us, the city council of our fair city is dominated by a gang of left-leaning knuckleheads who have vowed to correct this situation. When I last checked the city was levying property taxes on me for this sort of thing. I'm all for it.
Another thing. I keep reading about a paraglider in Australia that was attacked in mid-flight by a couple of wild eagles. Wild eagles? Isn't that unnecessarily descriptive? Are there domesticated eagles and are they on the loose,? Plus the article says that she not just a paraglider, but Britain's top female paraglider. Apparently, these birds didn't know who they were dealing with.
Merle
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgemental and cranky
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3 comments:
In the city where I live, you are required to sort all your garbage into three confusing categories. I'm all for recycling, but if you put something in the wrong bag or you try to throw away an item that it not allowed, you get a fine. So people put the prohibited items in front of someone else's house, and they get the fine.
I was just complaining about this very thing today. My neighbor, who has no idea what's recyclable and what's not, keeps filling up my bin with her overflow. She also uses my bin for a garbage can. Last week I found a half-eaten pizza in my bin. We don't have fines here for this kind of stuff, but I propose a penalty of death by firing squad. Is that too harsh?
I would be surprised to find some one with an eagle trilling in a cage in their back yard. I think she invaded their territory and the bird "attacking" her was just trying to get away. Thems the chances you take with paragliding down under!!
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