Friday, at last. I’ve spent the entire week feeling like I’m swimming upstream in a river of mucilage. I don’t have a great deal of hope that next week is going to be especially better, but maybe the week after that…
On the other hand, I discovered that Gene, who formerly ran The Hunter’s Den in Hopkins now has The Gun Shop out in St. Boni. I kinda miss gabbing about guns with him, and am glad I stopped by there the other day.
So as is typical around here, it was a week with high and low points. I’ve got a couple pretty firm leads for some ongoing work, but I’m going to have to write up proposals for them. I think I’ve been struggling with a cold all week, and just recognized the symptoms for what they were last night, after spending the week thinking I was stuffed up because of moving mom’s furniture into my house. Now that I know what’s got me feeling cruddy, I think I’ll have the energy to have a pretty productive day today. Of course there is the possibility that something will go awry this morning running me off the rails, but I’m going to at least try to get a good start, after the first decent night’s sleep all week. That’s something, right?
- The legislature is considering a bill to stop power hour, that is, the hour or two between midnight on your 21st birthday and when the bars close. The law will make you wait until 8am on your birthday before you’re legal to drink. Beyond my general libertarian leanings, I get worried when legislators say
if this legislation keeps one person from losing his or her life, then it’s worth it.
Yep. It’s worth changing the legal definition of when a birthday occurs to postpone someone’s opportunity to get loaded on their birthday by eight hours. [daily] - Here in Minnesota, the Meth fight gets boost as the Senate votes to restrict access to sudafed. As I pointed out a couple weeks back, it’s probably time to stock up if you haven’t already. [press-patch]
- The Effects of last year’s bus strike linger and there’s worry that there may be another strike come July when the one-year contract expires. That’s just the sort of thing people were worrying about last spring, and I haven’t seen any changes to make another strike less likely. [press-patch]
- And in some good news, Up North, philanthrophy has a different flavor. That’s definitely true from what I’ve seen. While it’s possible to get neighbors to help out in the “big city”, it’s much more common when you get up into smaller towns. That’s one of the reasons I favor government that operates at the smallest level possible. [strib]