News and Booze

OMG the headlines this morning are enuff to make a body sick. First, we are finally done with American Idol and David Cook won – hurrah. Now can we resume normal programming, please? The only part of this show that I truly enjoy ARE the auditions in the beginning… now those are funny and ya gotta love watching Simon and hearing his comments. Randy drives me nuts with his “hey dawg,” and Paula – is she really that weird or is she acting – airhead personified!

Now it appears with gas at not just $4 a gallon, hell we had to add a few pennies to make it even more fun $4.01…we get slammed with more costs. Seems American Airlines is gonna charge ya for baggage check-in – what the hell is that all about? Don’t’ we pay enuff to fly on this damn plane and now you want us to pay you to check in our luggage which they'll probably lose [Q.If they lose your luggage will you get the $15 baggage cost back?] Hey, can we bring the trains back?

But wait there’s more with airlines – we have known (been told) driving the speed limit saves gas, right? We don’t always follow that rule because we are just speed-idiots but if you do drive the speed limit you DO save gas. Well, now the airlines have learned this and they are doing the same thing – who’d of thunk! So you arrive two minutes later but they saved millions in fuel – and they still want to charge us for baggage? They got ya coming and going. If you say, "okay, I'll just carry my luggage on," now you will need to insure you have absolutely no liquids in your bag, that means, no shampoo, conditioner, nail polish, etc. See? They get ya no matter how clever you think you might be -- interesting, eh?

Now this cutting back on car production which Ford motors is already doing will probably catch on in other car industries real soon too. Why produce all these cars when folks cannot afford them? It’s a good move but hard on those employed by Ford – they need those jobs but hey, join the employment market – life is life, deal with it!

Happy Birthday to the Brooklyn Bridge – 125 years old – wow, she’s looking good for her age, eh? Imagine something built that many years ago and still standing –damn we had some smart builders, didn’t we?

So tell me, how is your day going so far – enjoy all this wonderful news and wondering if its all this a dream? More like a nightmare but if we all
are somewhat forced to just slowdown and stop whining and realize we can be part of the solution; we might actually discover we can enjoy this slower pace and we don’t need all this expensive stuff to be happy. Hey, hanging out with our kids and actually talking to each other, isn’t really all that difficult or bad after all.

Oh the topic line was news and booze and so far no mention of booze, eh? Well, a nice glass of wine or cold beer is always a welcomed way to end the day. Or you can have a cup tea or coffee, I'm not saying booze is the only drink that relaxes -- but hey, do your own thing, you are an adult, you make the call! Just don’t get crazy and think you need to drink the entire case or bottle, save some for another day, okay?

Have a good one….yup, you know I will!