Thursday, January 6, 2011

you can't bite city hall

This week: tired.
Big blizzard last week.
Raised the number of pages-per-day required to do for my novel (a comedy noir), beginning January 1.
Am behind.
(Why does a blizzard make me tired?)
Change in amount of effort it takes to
do the usual things.
Plan A: Drive to work.
However -- Car snowed into garage because city no longer clears the alley leading to garage. (For years, that task was done consistently, but in Recent years: Not.)
So -- Plan B: hitchhike to work.
(Was picked up by a young man named Corrie who said, "That's OK, I was out anyway, just lookin' for a white bow tie.")
??
Black-and-white party at local bar / lounge / bowling alley, that night, N yrs eve.
Eighty-five thousand inches of snow Burying Everything apparently does not deter some in the age group where the word "party" is still a verb, rather than a noun.

Plan XYZ, night before that was hire Guy Driving Pickup With Blade On The Front to clear that alley so that I could put Buick away in garage.
(Where did I find Guy Driving...? Middle of street, midnight. Always a good place to check.)
Didn't know where else to put car.
Drive it back to Work & park it and walk back to town?
It was one-degrees out !

Don't know why city has cut back on clearing efforts.
Blizzards have not cut back on snow.
People can always chorus, "cost savings" but --
we've had two new buildings (maybe more, two that can think of at moment) in the past couple of years which are -- you know -- nice, but not necessary.

If we have money for that, then Basic Services need to remain the same or improve, not devolve.

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1 comment:

  1. What a mess those storms caused. I agree, we should spend money on the things that necessary. This idea of austerity bothers me if we're going to continue to spend money on weapons and war we don't need, and a whole lot of other spending that primarily lines the pockets of the already wealthy.

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