Update For 23-Nov-2010
"You're In For Surprise, You're In For Shock!" --Judas Priest, from "The Ripper." Hey, gang! LPR here, and things have finally started looking up. First, just to let you know that I finally got my Provisional SSDI benefits, starting this …
Late November Holiday Presents from San Diego City Council
Proposed Parking Ticket Increase Parking tickets are due to go up by twelve percent. THIS IS NOT A TAX INCREASE; it just feel like one. Beneficiaries of the increase include Courthouse Construction and the Criminal Justice Facilities Construction Funds, State …
Artistic interlude.
It's been a long time since I posted... frankly it's because my '52 has been stuck in the garage. A good friend of mine has been helping me re-wire the car, but he got a job with a trucking company …
Doodle Four-Outta San Diego
Doodle Four Ok yall this is the gist, we finally got a real president, ain't sayin that Bill was bad or nuthin and if Hillary wouldn't have Boo Hooed after losing to Obama in Iowa she woulda had my vote. …
Update San Diego, 11/22/2010
On retail food costs. I was studing day to day operations the at Ralphs downtown and it became clear why food costs seem to keep going up. I understand that inflation is a factor but seeing security was a point …
A Woman's Work
This is a bona-fide rant, and something that has bothered me for a long time. Just in time for Thanksgiving, when millions of American women will be slaving away in the kitchen while the men drink beer and watch football. …
My angel wore a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey and brought manna to my house in Serra Mesa
An angel knocked on my door this morning. She called first. "There's a gift I have here for you," she said on the phone. "Can you come outside?" My family and I were getting ready to go to Sunday Mass. …
Savior
The rumor was that I wanted to kill my ex-wife, as I am certain that many in such a position stand accused. This was not true. My fantasies were much more complicated. Daydreams involved coming home to an empty house …
Journal writing
I've always been a writer. As a child I excelled in reading, and was atrocious at numbers and math. My writing never won many A's in school, but I always kept a journal, wrote poetry, lyrics and even started writing …
Z-Factor Back Story: SDG&E, CPUC, and the Meaning of Words
Aguirre Motion Denied to Remove Commissioner from Proceeding So far, several media outlets have covered the Z-Factor split decision between California Public Utilities Commission’s assigned commissioner and his administrative law judge, respectively granting and denying San Diego Gas and Electric …
good thing she's not using a shipping tube
i just had a need for this today hope u need some laughing 2 so it's back to the Dollar Tree for a stronger pair of READERS
APOSTROPHE
To think, I almost killed someone over an apostrophe. And nobody would have felt the slightest bit of sympathy for me in the media: “Careless Jerk Flattens Homeless Man While Texting”. Or, maybe they would empathize with me. After all, …
Update San Diego, 11/17/2010
I see GM has sold $16,977,807,210.00 in stock in it's IPO that went to the U.S. Treasury to recover the public debt that was created when the government took it over. The last selling price was $32.50/share. That took a …
Update San Diego, 11/15/2010
If you can not find Catti look at Google "Catti warror". Another source is the Germania writen by Tracitus, Roman orator and public official, said to be one of the greatest historian's and prose stylist's writer in the Latin language. …
College & University, Revisited
A lost home, but a found memory
A couple days ago I went to Toby Wells YMCA to work out. It felt like any other time but it also felt a little different. On the way to the weights and treadmill room was the basketball room; I …
Corruption as a Social Disease
I am coming around to seeing corruption in a new light. There is the corrupt individual in an uncorrupted culture of leadership. He or she may be successful for a time because of the immediate advantages that personal corruption may …
Sempra Energy On Fitch Ratings Negative Outlook, Ratings Downgrade
Fitch Ratings removed its Watch Negative advisory on San Diego-based Sempra Energy (SRE) on downgrading Sempra Energy equity and debt by one notch. Fitch Ratings also imposed a Rating Outlook of Negative on SRE. A full list of downgrades may …
Update San Diego, 11/12/2010
My team leader Ursula Kuster informed us that the final results for the Carly Barbara race is Carly 53.1% in San Diego County, not bad!. So what have I learned from all this, as we are to learn something from …
Sempra To Increase Alternative Energy Generation in Kern County
Onell Soto revealed that Sempra Generation, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, has obtained local but not state permission to construct a 200 megawatt solar farm in Kern County. There is no word if San Diego Gas and Electric Company customers …