LEAVE IT TO PEEVER
Oh happy
days
-Bumper
sticker of the week: Talk only if you can improve on the silence.
-Quote of
the week: ŌThe dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates
during a dinner party.Ķ Carol
Matthan
-I stopped
down at the bar the other night on the way home from a frustrating meeting.
More talk about redoing downtown. I needed a beer. Jesus came in and sat down
beside me. I said hi. You can imagine my surprise. I said I would gladly buy
him a drink. He said he wouldnÕt mind a shot of whiskey, it had been a long
day. I yelled to the bartender to get him a shot of her best whiskey. But Jesus
said no, the cheapest one would be fine.
-A full
moon rising: Take a look outside tonight. ItÕs the full snow moon. I wish I were
looking at it from the beach in Ft. Myers, Florida. I would rename it: Full
moon over the ocean. Sounds a lot warmer.
-Grocery
Stores:
* No two grocery
stores are arranged alike. Not even in the same company! There ought to be a
law. IÕm going to e-mail Blagojevich and see what he thinks. Somehow heÕll be
able to figure out how to tax it.
* I like grocery
stores that give you samples. Then you donÕt have to buy anything.
* Most grocery stores
have huge liquor departments. People must drink more than they eat. The liquor
salesmen must be better than the bread salesmen. The problem comes when you try
to check out. No one is ever old enough. The oneÕs old enough are in the back
sleeping, cause theyÕre so old.
* Every grocery
should have a good deli. A Jewish deli, since they are usually the best. With a
lot of cheese. And the person in charge of the Jewish deli should be a Jewish
mother, so she can tell you what youÕre doing wrong with your life.
* Grocery store
bakeries are usually not very good. Most things are brought in frozen and
reheated. This is not baking. A baker should have years of experience and a
stomach as big as Alaska.
* Everyone heads to
the store when a snow storm is coming. Like itÕs going to snow so much you wonÕt
be able to get out for a week. I donÕt get it, and think itÕs pretty stupid,
but I go anyway.
-Just when
you think youÕre starting to get everything figured out, they add another
commandment.
-Go ahead,
TIF us to death: Here comes more of the same. ThereÕs a surprise. The only
thing that a TIF district helps is an incompetent businessman or woman who
canÕt make a profit in a legitimate way. Outside of that, theyÕre a rip-off.
They hurt the taxpayer and they hurt taxing bodies. Ask for any kind of written
proof that TIF districts are effective and help the local economy. Ask if they,
TIF districts, have helped any cities economy, anywhere in Illinois. What you
will get, if anything, are generalities and platitudes about how wonderful TIF
districts have been. What you wonÕt get are facts. TIF districts are a joke.
Unfortunately, the jokes on us.
-Happiness:
* is a life well
lived.
* is having what you
need and giving the rest away.
* does not come from
money or possessions.
* doesnÕt reside at
the bottom of a bottle or in the illusion of a drug high.
* has nothing to do
with sex, but everything to do with the dance surrounding it.
* is wearing a hat
that fits and socks that match.
* surrounds those who
live within themselves.
* is having a lot of
friends you can laugh with and cry with.
* Some days happiness
is just waking up and smelling the hog factory.