Wednesday, July 11, 2007

I'm tired, I'm grumpy and Amazon parrots should be in the Amazon

Today was a couple of weeks long.

Among other things, I went to a home to do a mortgage signing for DiTech. They are killing local banks on interest rates, and are offering fixed rates. Great Caesar's Ghost, in reading those words, I see that I've been taking money from the corporate King for his enslavement of people. Shit. I'm a hypocrite. Dammit, how could I have missed this?

Anyway, this was the home of a mine fire boss. That's a very responsible management position in charge of safety. He works 6 days a week, 12 hours a day. In the home, there is a large-ish bird cage, and in that cage is an Amazon parrot. That disturbs me a lot. The bird shouldn't be in a cage in West Virginia, he should be in his natural habitat. Again, perhaps I'm a hypocrite, what with having two indoor cats (one of whom was with me when I lived alone, also an indoor cat then.)

My son had a minor injury in an ambulance incident a couple of days ago. He's black and blue all over. (Basically, an idiot cut off the ambulance which was hauling ass with a patient, and the driver dropped the hooks.) Welcome to what was my world, Tim. He's sanguine about it, and we've discussed why I told him to favor sitting in the backward facing seat. Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Yours in flaming hypocrisy,
R

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i hope your son heals, he's young so he will.

i cat hates anything to do with outside and is the boss of my house and knows it. i took her out once and she looked at me and i just knew she was saying "you're kidding right? don't do this again or you'll pay."

i have a lovely fixed rate mortgage at 6% and since i've been so lovely to them, paying extra for a year, they said they'd give me 5% or less if we sit and have a chat. I may take them up on it.

MD only has strip mines, and they do a lot of harm to lovely western MD.

Jilly