Vanity, Thy Name is...

Well, I took off my acrylic nails and my hands just look, well, naked. I have kept them on for SO long, I feel very odd without them, but they were getting damaged by my garden work (even wearing rubber gloves), so until I get the garden "set", they stay off. (Probably will save enough to pay for the micro irrigation system. Photos will be up when it is complete - I am at 50% so far.)

I still need to set the boysenberry bushes and brick in that planter area. The bricks will slow the return of the "Creeping Grass from Hell", as my neighbor Lou calls it. He uses Round-up (tm) on his side of the fence; I dig that crap up. And I am doing battle with the dandelions now. Have a battle scar to prove it. I know I'll lose that war, but I won this skirmish - that dandelion is in the lawn recycle bin. I thought about putting them in the compost heap, but I don't want to chance the seeds/spores surviving and ending up in my garden.

Some fun stuff today:

Yahoo has a post for folks who think they are People Persons.
Peoples' Socialist Republik of Kalifornia did something Right yesterday. And Auhnoold says he "hears the voters' anger". Yeah, like all the way in Wash DC he heard it...lol!
And The California Commission will be cutting lawmakers' salaries by 10%. Not sure when it takes effect, but, um, probably not immediately like every other state employee LAST MONTH. (Actually, the article states that it won't happen until AT LEAST 2010.)

But, from the article on G.A.S.'s Wash trip, it's reported that Obamessiah will still be partially bailing out the PSRK:

The governor was informed that California remains eligible to receive another $8 billion in stimulus money for its Medicaid program, the one bright spot for state officials after voters on Tuesday soundly defeated five ballot measures aimed at closing California's huge budget shortfall.

LA Times reported this:

Schwarzenegger has called for cuts that would hit every corner of the state. He announced plans to lay off 5,000 of the state's 235,000 workers and has proposed slashing education by up to $5 billion, selling state properties, borrowing $2 billion from local governments and potentially reducing eligibility for healthcare programs...Worst-case scenarios also call for the release from state prisons of up to 19,000 illegal immigrants, who would face deportation, and the transfer of up to 23,000 other prisoners to county jails

If we stopped paying for the illegals' OTHER benefits, PSRK could save around $10B. That would leave us ONLY $3-5B short.

Fat chance.

Oh, and the market is still crazy.