Gee, what a big weekend we have in front of us. First off, there’s that whole Olympics thing getting started tonight. From what I understand, pretty much every event will be streaming on the intertubes, so there’s no reason to miss any Beach Volleyball matches. Not to mention Dressage. Speaking of horses, poor old Mitt managed to step in horse shit right from the git-go over there in London. Way to piss off the Brits (and here I thought Romney understood the special bond white people have with one another).
As if the Olympics weren’t enough, it’s also Harborfest up in Oswego (which, of course, means nothing to most of you out there – but then it doesn’t mean much to me, either, since I won’t be attending any of it). Lots of bands and lots of stumbling around drunk. Ah, if only I was young again. Or still.
The severe weather that came through yesterday pretty much missed us, thank goodness. We got some rain, and that was about it. South of us got hit pretty hard, though, and Elmira appears to have had a tornado. I’m glad that stuff mostly stays in the Midwest and the South and stuff (no offense to you folks, but you can keep the hurricanes and tornadoes and stuff; I’ll stick with snow).
Oh well, I guess I’d better get back to work here. Let’s get this damn week over with already.
This year in Central Park, 6 redtail hawks, including Palemale’s mate Lima, died of rat poisoning. Two of his offspring are in rehab suffering from the same. Several of the institutions around the park use poison to kill rats and the birds eat the rats. The poison causes its victim to hemorrhage, a slow and painful death. There are other ways to control the rats, the easiest being to place garbage in closed containers so that the rats can’t access it for food.
A group of animal lovers has a petition asking that rat poison not be used in or near the park. If you are willing, please sign it. They need all the signatures we can get.
http://www.change.org/petitions/new-york-state-department-of-environmental-conservation-stop-the-murder-of-our-red-tail-hawks-in-nyc
Today will be really boring
PJ, make a new thread