Big news (apparently; the biggest news of the day – at least if the Today Show is any indication), as Abby Sunderland has been spotted. She’s a teenager attempting to sail solo around the world, I guess. I vaguely remember hearing about this before, but, well, I wasn’t really paying attention. I’m mostly just trying to get through the day these days, and today, another work week comes to an end, which is always a good thing.

Those of us who work for the State of NY are kind of wondering how many work weeks we have left, though. A new emergency spending bill is due by Monday night, and if our hardworking legislators fail to pass it (as they’re making more and more noise about doing it), or fail to pass a budget (which they appear incapable of doing), then NY runs out of money.

Nobody’s really sure what happens at that point. Half a million NYers on unemployment won’t get their checks. They won’t have money to pay State employees past June 23rd (whether they’ll tell us all to stay home or try and pay us with ‘script’ – which they’ve done in the past – I don’t know). Will they shut down State prisons? Tell the State Troopers to stay home? Maybe mobilize the NY State National Guard to patrol the highways and run the prisons? What happens to hospitals? Things could get very interesting around here.

For now, though, it’s just another week of life over. 2,588 down, 1,325 to go (give or take).