It’s Friday. Yes, indeed. Finally. This is the first five-day week I’ve had to work in a while (since before Christmas, I think, but I might have had a 5-day’er in there somewhere), and I’m on-call to boot, so it’s been a long one. Quite glad it’s over. That is to say, I will be quite glad when it’s over.

They showed the recently-completed teevee pilot based in Syracuse called “Upstate” on one of the local channels last night. It was written by the guy that did Murphy Brown (among other things), so I had high hopes for it. Sadly, it pretty much sucked. Bummer.

A tall cattle truck had an encounter with a low bridge here in town last night. As is often the case with these things, the bridge won. The bad news is that several cows were injured so badly that they had to be put down. The good news is that 22 cows were “rescued.” They showed video of them poking their little noseys out the holes in the carrier. The bad news is they were on their way to slaughter, anyway. Poor cows.

A couple of amendments to RBA 2012. First, females will also be required to donate eggs. This will ensure a steady supply of embryos in order to produce stem cells and flavor-enhancing fetuses (hat tip to Sue). The frozen embryos will be sold (I’m envisioning ads in the back of magazines, kind of like those Sea Monkey/Seahorse ads). This should attract private-sector investment, thereby limiting the need to add to existing government bureaucracy (naturally there will be almost no regulation or government oversight for this program). That should alleviate the concerns of the Representative from Oklahoma.

Finally, schools will be funded solely by the federal government, not from property taxes. The quality of a kid’s education shouldn’t be determined by how wealthy the community he or she lives in is.

I’m sure there will be more changes as this moves through the legislative process. I’m hoping we can get this added to a bill cutting taxes for rich people.

Oh, and I mandate dogs but not cats because dogs are more difficult to take care of, and having one teaches you responsibility and to care about something other than yourself. Having a cat teaches you to lay around, and get away with being finicky and acting like a snotball.

Oh well, let’s get this party started.