I bought a new pair of khaki slacks this week. Have you noticed that clothes these days cost more, fit less, and are made of thinner, more fragile material?
It’s good I needed a new pair of gauzy, filmy harem pants.
Category Archives: Dick’s Dumps
Paving (formerly E Premte) Peeves
Marathon, Florida’s, five-mile stretch of U.S. 1 will get its facelift sooner than expected. Repaving work on the highway, torn up for sewer work and other utility projects over the past couple of years, was originally slated to begin by early fall. It all started on Sunday. The paving alone will take months. All paving projects in Florida take months.
The project is scheduled to end in December but, of course, it was scheduled to end in December when it was scheduled to start two months from now. I figure that with the early start, they can drag it out until April or May.
Primary (formerly E Premte) Peeves
“Which side would you blame for the stalemate preventing a budget/debt ceiling deal?” the Wall Street Journal asked.
How ’bout both?
We all know that this particular six month extension is 90% political and 10% to assure that interest rates go up at least a point or two. The Repuglican leadership absolutely wants to have this fight come out again right in the middle of the 2012 presidential campaign. At the very least it will distract Obama from his real job of running for reelection.
Reckless spending by Demorats is a completely separate issue.
The real issue is that the Demorats are fiddling while Rome burns. Except the Repuglicans are busy eating grapes to the fiddle music.
Now doesn’t that just peeve me off? Or worse?
Persembe (formerly Premte) Peeves
Liz Arden noted last night that steak gets caught between your teeth as you get older. That has nothing to do with aging on my part; steak has always gotten caught between my teeth. It is worse this week, though, because I broke a filling and can’t see the dentist until Tuesday. Couldn’t our design have included better teeth?
Speaking of getting older, this is my Birthday Prince week and she also mentioned that no one made me lemon cupcakes. For the record, I don’t like lemon cupcakes, even with chocolate icing, but still.
Premte Peeves
I’ve been chasing an online payment around the country this week. I deposited a check here in North Puffin, then used my BillPay feature to send my South Puffin credit union account a check. One peeve is that the bank mails an actual check to the BillPay recipient despite the fact that the transaction is then done electronically.
That payment cleared my North Puffin account JULY FIRST. As of 4:30 yesterday, it hadn’t even made it to the Keys but the bank here grabbed the money from my account JULY FIRST. That’s the second peeve.
I called the bank here. My friend Sally Ripley (my garbage man Tom’s wife) investigated. The check hasn’t been cashed yet. That means they’ve had a couple grand to play the float with for more than 14 days.
I can blame some of this on the holiday weekend (there have been just a few business days since July 1) but that’s no excuse.
Hmm. I wonder if this electrical disconnect notice means the utility is waiting for a check that cleared my North Puffin account JULY FIRST as well. All I can do now is wait to see who else complains. Three peeves and you’re out?