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Life

Sucky weather

Wow, 13 inces of snow in less than 24 hours. Merry Christmas.
At least it was lif=gt and fluffy, except where the plows packed it in, of course. The snow at the end of my driveway was about 3 feet deep, and packed in. I started to shovel it this morning after I got home from work, so we could get Jenny out and off to work, but she decided it was taken too long and walked to work, tellingme to stop and take a break “right now”. I did, and am happy that I did, because the snowplow came by about 45 minutes later, and filled what I’d shoveled right back in.
I got the driveway pretty well, and the walkway, then later asked Matt to widen out the end of the walkway, shovel out the mail box, and make a path to the cellar door. He did a superb job.
Maybe I’ll take pictures tomorrow.
That’s it from here today, except I finished Jenny’s presents today. WOOT!
Oh, and, my sister Denise brought over Xmas fudge. Another WOOT!
(We’ve got way too much junk food.)

General

I would like to thank

Power Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation for adding my Moby Dick piece to their Cultural Fallout of the Week spotlight, and for the twitter ( http://twitter.com/powermobydick ).
Powermobydick is a site with the full text of Mellville’s Moby Dick plus annotations on the text. I read Moby Dick for the first time about 7 or 8 years ago, and fell in love with it. If they’d made me read it in high school, though, I probably would have been put off it. It’s a great tale, wih many subtexts (the major theme is obsession, and the book is obsessional in many ways), and there is a reason that it’s a classic.

Finances, General, Politics

Well, I wasn’t wrong after all

Auto Makers to Get $17.4 Billion – WSJ.com

They got more money than they asked for, with fewer strings attached, and less oversite.
Oh, and who’s the “car czar”? The guy who’s supposed to watch over all this?  why, our favorite bailout maven, who’s done such a fine job with the bank bailout–none other than Henry Paulson.

Here’s Mish’s take on it: http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/12/bush-wimps-out-on-autos.html

I wish someone would bail me out.