apad 29

Bleary eyed in an early hour
Dreams having winked and lurched
their way in low waves across dawn
and through the edges of memory

Drinking coffee in a greygreen hour
with thunder still a southern muttering
whispers of a springdeep storm to come
in deep counterpoints to the barge traffic

Trying to bring myself to myself
gluing my mind together with coffee
as the radio softly lets in the world
I look out the half blinded window

where a smoke limbed cat stretches
and accepts the world as tribute

restless? me? Look..squirrel!

Your Birthdate: November 5

With a birthday on the 5th of the month you are inclined to work well with people and enjoy them. You are talented and versatile, very good at presenting ideas. You may have a tendency to get itchy feet at times and need change and travel. You tend to be very progressive, imaginative and adaptable. Your mind is quick, clever and analytical. A restlessness in your nature may make you a bit impatient and easily bored with routine. You may have a tendency to shirk responsibility

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

does this come as a shock?

I am: -4% Republican.

"You're a damn Commie! Where's Tailgunner Joe when we need him?"

Are You A Republican?

mundane update and rant

We finally got an update on our contract negotiations. Not only does the company (Cincinnati Bell) want massive takebacks in pay and benefits, they also want to do away with Retired workers pensions altogether. So far they have also refused to release the figures used to establish the need for this. My logical question would be..if the company is doing that badly then why did the CEO deserve a bonus of $846,602 last year, not counting $1,550,015 in stock options and a salary of $669,808? According to the US government I,even though I am at the top of the salary ladder for my department,do not make enough to support a family. The emotional question..the Company demands loyalty from its employees..and this is the result? So that a person can find, after 30-35 years service and at an age when they can no longer work, are suddenly without health or pension?

It may be a long summer.