Food Stamps

So, they raided the Food Stamp fund to pay for the teachers. 

Out of control government.  November won't get here soon enough.   I am not a fan of abusers of food stamps, but I am hardly totally against having them for the situations that warrant them.  The raid, however, doesn't go into effect until 2014. 

That gives time to fix all of this.  However, Obamacare, as some unaffectionately are calling it, needs to go first. 

The stuff is getting maddening.  I am not going to go into my perspective of how things are going to eventually turn out if we continue on this path, but look at England. 

A few weeks ago, I drove the semi down into a huge mine.  Tomorrow, I get to drive into yet another mine!  And this one is MUCH older than the one I went into the other day, meaning it is undoubtedly even far deeper and vast than the first.  Well, as long as the roads are safe.

I have come to find out that mining operations have extensive safety operations going that MUST be adhered to by anyone that is on the property, anywhere on the property.  The potential for significant or fatal injury in such places is great.  HEAVY equipment moving all over the place.  I don't mean pickup trucks, we're talking dump trucks big enough to hold a used car lot's worth of cars in them. 

The hazards of the place, however, don't phase me.  The mine I'm going into?  No clue.  The last one had me reading and signing fully 4 different documents.  I have heard that some of these mines actually have you watch a video before you can go in.  It's all good.  I have no problem with it. I don't want to get killed in there and I don't want to see anyone else getting killed in those places, either.  All I know is, not everyone gets to go into a huge mining operation, drive a semi truck to the bottom of it and get to take it all in.

Perhaps that doesn't appeal to everyone, either.  I get to do something that most people - don't.  But it's more than that for me.  I am always fascinated by most things new to me.  Things that I have read about, seen pictures of, but have not personally experienced.  I ask questions, lots of them if the person I am asking is amiable to such.  What is this, that and the other thing.   If not, I am still quite curious - but I am not going to become a nuisance to someone that obviously doesn't want to be bothered.

If I get the chance, I will take my break time and stop for some rocks for my newest pond.  My pond liner came in today.  I ordered a liner to put into the preformed thing I have been digging a hole for. Taking no chances, I don't want leaks and I don't want to have to be taking that huge thing out of the ground - which at that point would mean removing plants, fish and water - to find where the leak is.  I got a brand new one on eBay for $29.  This preformed pond is around $600 new.  No, I didn't pay anything NEAR that amount for it.  The liner is just insurance.

I have done nothing at home today besides normal kitchen cleaning duties and cooking.  The kids did everything else.  That includes sweeping and mopping the kitchen floor.  Living room. Bedroom.  Yup, they did what they said they were going to do and that made me happy. 

I'm very tired.  I slept 5 hours plus a short stint after waking up at 1:30 am.  I went to bed early to deal with my sleeplessness - I am guaranteed, pretty much, at least 5 hours sleep by doing such.  I am going to bed early tonight as well, like in about 15 minutes.

Oops, that means getting busy with night-end rituals.

G'day/nite/hasta la vista.

ben