bagging

Featured below, there is a president sandbagging. Were it Clinton, that would have been bags of money he was loading into his car/van/SUV. Clinton -- he just loves money, not only his.

Worse flood

I don't think we'll quite get to this stage, but we might.
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Below you can see a famous sandbagger ... not how you think I mean.

Driving through Mississippi River

Well, something like that is what I did tonight. "and the rain, rain, came down, down, down, and the rain, rain, came down, down, down"+ "Drip, drip, drop, little April showers ..."++ One of the rivers was overflowing its banks. It's that seasonal thing to do ... call to anyone not doing anything and get them to sandbag for a while. It's an annual thing to do. The concept of the "hundred-year" flood is noble, but the fact that it floods twice a year ought to be a clue that the "hundred year flood" is likely quite a bit larger than what we get.

We're getting more rain this week -- it'll be fun, fun, fun, 'til my daddy takes the sailboat away

+ Winnie the Pooh
++ Bambi

I haven't the heart

I am the roughest-toughest pushover. I could probably walk out any given night wearing gobs of stuff or be tormented in any number of ways. I just don't say no, very often.

overview of CSI

crap ... complete crap

While not at work, I spent some time with my mom ... she watched CSI

It was, without a doubt, a graphic comic/cartoon.
Here's someone looking through a microscope -- action music ... intrigue, she shows someone else.

"I'm a criminalist", that's why I'm walking around in casual clothes at a crime scene visited fifteen times by thirty people and then go to a poorly lit interior room to examine evidence. I also have the power to arrest people, conduct interviews, mess around with evidence, and be the "head brain" around the place.

Apart from the complete melodrama soap opera feel of it all, all stupid story, mindnumbing acting, and far-fetched "so-called science", you're left with cut-scenes and complete logic flaws and something close to transporters. I guess woman can't watch Star Trek, but they will watch CSI -- same sci-fi, same acting, just different backdrop.

In hindsight, I suggest that Star Trek is a greater show, in that it didn't pretend to be real.

Weather or not, I go

The weather is not being kind today, still, I must go to work. The shifting wind will rock my car like a kayak in the Bermuda Triangle. I think that I shall never see a day of weather just right for me. Yesterday was close -- cool, not yet cold, bright and sunny.

I got a chance to take out the folks for lunch, which turned out nice for us. The place was "hoppin'" busy, so there was a long walk to and from the car.

I reflect now, that for a short time, I got a chance to be with family, later with friends with two wild dogs and a hyper boy.

In my mind, doubt and wonder circle the tank ... if offered, would I go postal?