get the perk, without the work.

just heard a story on the local newscast about this family whose house burned yesterday. the dad was home alone, with the dog, and the living room caught fire while he was taking a shower. they didn't say what caused the fire. he got out of the shower, saw the fire, grabbed the dog, and skeedaddled. his wife & five kids were spending the night with friends. that's right - five kids. yikes! why is it the people with a plethora of progeny are all the time having hardships? perhaps we just don't heare about the other folk. perhaps it's not newsworthy if they don't have at least three kids.

this other family - pretty sure they had like 4 kids - was asleep in their beds last night, when bullets came zinging into the house. yikes! no one was hurt - the family greyhound was grazed, but not really hurt. the bullets buried in mattresses, walls, etc. the family wants the local police to investigate. the local police said it's not a drive-by b/c of the angle of the shots. no idea how they know that. looks like it was new year's eve revellers. no idea what shooting guns has to do with new year's eve, but it does. it is some sort of tradition, in certain cultures, especially in the southern usa for eejits.

tonight, had to run to the local food lion for cocoa. the guy in front of me at the checkout was purchasing cran-grape juice, pineapple juice, and bleach. yikes! i wanted to tell him that who ever he is planning to poison would taste the bleach in the juice, but then, i thought maybe i was saving the lives of, like, his family, by not clueing him in.

commercial on teevee just said - DQ is having a huge cheeseburger sale. i wonder if this is b/c they have all these old cheeseburgers they have to get out of stock before they take end-of-year inventory. speaking of inventory - there is all this news about cars sitting on lots, not selling. american car companies cannot get rid of their inventory. if they would sell them half price, i would buy one. if they were really desperate, they would sell them half price - ergo, they are not desperate.