Patrick Says

We’re up again after the strike. Looks like we beat SOPA and PIPA back. For now. They will be back. You can bank on that.

Just an FYI that this site will be particiapting in the SOPA Strike tomorrow (if I installed the plugin correctly). This site will be down to protest SOPA and PIPA, the government’s over-reaching and censoring of the Internet. Call your Congress peeps and urge them to oppose these pieces of garbage legislation.

Look, I’m not saying my kids aren’t great. But these three-day weekends sometimes blur the line between work and time off. Sure, there was some fun with the building of the Lego and the swinging of the Wii remote controller, but sometimes you just need to go to work and get some quality time with the stapler. Just saying.

In other news, the city of Arnold sent The Wife a late notice on a red light camera ticket that was dismissed back in 2006. A Facebook friend of ours also got a notice on a dismissed ticket. I’m hypothesizing one of two scenarios occurred:

1. The city of Arnold is so desperate for revenue that they are sending out letters to anyone and everyone in the hopes that the person will pay the ticket. Too bad for them I have a family-friend attorney who got the initial ticket dismissed in the first place.
2. Someone screwed up and ran the wrong query in the database resulting in an avalanche of notices that should never have went out. This person will probably be assigned phone duty on Tuesday to answer what will certainly be a boatload of irate callers.

I’m leaning toward #2. Seems more plausible.

I was listening to NPR the other day and they were talking with this woman. I tuned in late, so I didn’t really have the full story. But she was talking about this pet chicken she had and how she had to take it to the vet because it was sick. Ultimately, they were not able to save it and she had it cremated.

And I’m thinking, ‘wow, I’ll bet the smell of that chicken being cremated was delightful.’ I’m getting hungry just typing about it. Mmmmm…I do loved blackened chicken.

Sorry about your pet.

I had this great idea for a Christmas card picture this year, which I floated on Facebook. And really, if I had any money, it would have been totally kick-ass. I was going to replicate the famous gun-shooting scene (see above) from ‘Pulp Fiction’ using The Oldest and Steak as Travolta and Jackson. Not sure who was going to play who, but the whole thing never got past the idea stage to be honest.

Which led me to an even cooler idea using the same concept. But there might actually be some money to be made in the next progression, so I can’t say much. Oh, who are we kidding…it’ll probably go nowhere. No need to look for ach check processing for all those deposits. :sigh: