…will continue tomorrow with Part III. MPR wants some serious changes in the Central Corridor’s route; some of their suggestions make sense. Others…well, they’re about as useful, sensible and thought-out as “On The Media” with Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone.
More tomorrow.
…but my transmission sticks when I try to put it in “idle”.
My employer gave us a four-day weekend last week. I can’t say that I’ve never had employers give us a floater on the day after a Thursday Christmas.
But not only do we have today off – we have tomorrow off as well.
I wouldn’t say I’m a workaholic – I like my job a lot, of course – but I don’t do time off very gracefully. Part of it is having been a contractor/freelancer for most of the past decade; time is money, or at least it was for a long, long time. Part of it is I’m just not someone who relaxes well.
Today’s one thing. Nobody’s working. I can more or less justify taking a long steam at the gym and vegging out and watching the Monk marathon.
Tomorrow? Ugh. I’ll be fidgeting starting by 6AM. I’ll probably start sanding floors by 9.
How do people learn how to relax, anyway?
…it would go without saying – Happy New Year from the whole staff at Shot In The Dark!
For the 20-somethingth year in a row, I’m utterly hangover-free, having done, well, nothing whatsoever to ring in the new year.
All other national problems having been solved…
Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain. He was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the industry consolidated from six major companies to four.
So, in September, Mr. Kohl sent a letter to Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, inviting them to answer some basic questions about their text messaging costs and pricing.
I get unlimited text messaging for ten bucks a month. What an outrage.
Reportedly, Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile sent the Senator text messages in response:
AT&T: ^URS
Sprint: 4Q
T-Mobile: ADAD. AFAHMASP. BIOIYA.
I think T-Mobile went a bit too far. …Germans.
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