2/19/08

Sorry, I should have said something Friday about Monday being a holiday. Of course I didn’t say anything at all on Friday so I kind of left y'all all up in the air didn’t I? Anyhoo, so it has been a few days since I said anything to y'all. The reason I didn’t have anything to say Friday was I've been giving the idea of making the Boyd shop pay its own way more thought. I bounced the idea off my sister and she thinks it could possibly work. Gregg is very excited about it, of course he wants to build it and have a permanent spot for his efforts, but I won’t go into that. I think John is on board but I haven’t heard Pat’s thoughts. Liability is the biggest issue of course. I'm sure it can be made to work, there are several places around the country doing this, but it will take more cipherin’ and figgerin’ on all our parts. Oh, I filed my income taxes today and damned if I didn’t get a refund. I hate loaning the government money with no interest. I'd rather have to pay a couple hundred at tax time than have them steal it from me only to give it back when I catch them. That’s what they are doing you know. How come if an accountant skims a little more than he’s entitled to each week, he can’t just pay it back when the time comes? It’s the same thing. The gubment is taking away too much of my money each paycheck, then when I file my return and catch their skimming, they as much as say, “Oops, my bad. Here’s your money.” The accountant in my scenario doesn’t get that option, he goes to jail. Granted, we’re only talking $34.00 in my case this year, but it is the principal of the thing. Principal, get it? Wait, did I tell that right? Is “principal” the right spelling of the word for the money invested which would be making interest on a loan? Aw, who cares, it’s still funny to me. Speaking of funny, last night I watched some show on the History Channel about jokes and what is funny and stuff like that. There were some funny folks on there, as well as Robin Williams and Lewis Black. Notice I didn’t say “including Robin Williams and Lewis Black.” Robin Williams used to be funny but now I hate, wait let me emphasize that, HATE his manic riffing. Lewis Black has never been funny. Oh, he thinks he’s funny, and apparently thinks anything anyone else who is supposed to be funny says is funny. He is a friggin’ living laugh track. Want an example? Ok, did you see that movie where Robin Williams was a comedian, bit of a stretch of his acting skills I must admit, who accidentally wins the presidential election? There were scenes where a group was sitting around listening to him riff and the camera would cut to Black having conniption fits of convulsive, apoplectic laughter. Ok, the jokes in the riff were smirk-worthy at best, but Black acted like they were the funniest things ever uttered. Ok, I just erased a big rant about Black’s standup, Borat Osama’s mandatory health insurance, and other left-wing pinko democrat bullshit. It was pissing me off too badly. Well, since the noon hour is approaching, I think I'll call this a rant and go eat. Y'all have a day.