Elections and Sense

In response to my suggestion on Facebook that people should be required to work 20 hours per week for local government community service projects in order to receive unemployment benefits:

I think Mark’s idea makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately you can’t win elections by saying things that make sense.

Government In Your Backyard

A town in New York is using Google Earth to take a look in people’s back yards to see if they have swimming pools without the proper license. Of course they could have done the same thing for years with a plane or with ariel photographs, but the ease of using Google Earth is making some people feel a bit like they are being spied on.

In Trouble Now

Haley just called down the stairs:

We are in trouble now!  He just figured out how to crawl.

Our 9 month old can now go forward in addition to backwards.

Pharmacy

Walgreens had our prescription but not the medicine. They called the hospital pharmacy, determined they had it and asked if we’d like the prescription transfered there. When I got to the hospital, they had the medicine, but not the prescription. They remembered Walgreen’s call to check on availability, said they never called back with the prescription transfer. It turns out Walgreens did transfer the prescription–to Walmart. It is a good thing this is just for a sore ear and nothing life threatening.