This morning, the tree guy stopped by to give me an estimate on cleaning up my trees. They don’t need major work, just need to be trimmed so they’re not rubbing on my house or the neighbor’s. Only $450 for a dozen trees. That ain’t bad at all, I’m figuring. Yeah, it’ll probably take them a half-hour or so, but it’s the kind of thing that would take me all day, the trees would look kinda crummy when I was done, and I’d have a huge pile of branches laying there until I got around to hauling them away. The thing that gets me is that it wasn’t even a year ago when I last did this, but I’m hoping that maybe with a pro coming in to clean up the trees, I’ll be able to learn some trick so I can do a better job next time. Anyway, I’m probably going to pull the trigger later today and schedule the appointment.
Today looks like a busy day, too. Got a couple more appointments I have to keep today, plus I need to get some work done. While I wasn’t happy when the tree guy showed up almost a half-hour early (just as I was finishing my morning ablutions), it seems to have worked out pretty well, since I’m getting this ready for you, and getting started on work at just about the right time, better than if I’d actually planned it.
- Bruce Schneier’s got some suggestions on How to Not Fix the ID Problem. If the problem is that civil serpents are selling fake IDs, maybe the solution is to use existing laws to charge them as accessories to whatever crimes are committed using those fake IDs. [schneier]
- Talking about the way many governors are crying about RealID, Paul Hein says Dry Those Eyes, Governors!. Nice rant, plus he points out that if you don’t have a RealID-compliant ID, and the IRS tries to prosecute you, hey, you probably won’t be able to get to the trial! [claire]
- Local Do Not Call list under attack, activists say. Telemarketers are trying to get the federal list to preempt state laws, because having a patchwork of state laws is too confusing to comply with. Yeah, there’s no way their auto-dialing computers could possibly figure out which area code belongs to which state. [fark!]
- jr’s got a nice rant about Statutory Rape: New Brunswick and parenting. The problem is that the people it’s addressed to aren’t ever going to read it. [jr]