The Hobbit Hole VII - But not yet weary are our feet...

[Ramius]

No... what wondrous things???

[RosieCotton]

Um...no...this is one thing duct tape is NOT good for.

Sticks to the hair, don't ya know. Such a mess!

But she found a chair and settled down, so I think we're OK, except that one of the other cats is ticked off because she smells funny. Tough.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

You know it's real when shoveling horse poo becomes romantic.

[Ramius]

[snif] Oh, ain't that the truth...

None of my ex's ever got to the poo-shoveling stage. Dangit.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Auditor found 10 areas (findings against) where the City was doing things against laws or rules -- like overcharging for travel, incorrectly using credit cards, not keeping an inventory of police weapons, that sort of thing. It's the big news. And the Finance Director was quoted as saying it's all the fault of the auditor because the auditor is out to get him.

So explain to me why I took this job again?

[Professional Engineer]

[HairOfTheDog]

So explain to me why I took this job again?

You came for the waters?

[ecurbh]

So explain to me why I took this job again?

The babes?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Water wouldn't do it...beer maybe.

[HairOfTheDog]

~Smiles~

I am in love, and he shovels poo too...

He sprayed a mouse with a hose tonight though...

[ecurbh]

Well, it wouldn't put the lotion on its skin!

[Ramius]

I found an article by a guy named Vogel at the Trib: "Weak oversight of spending cited". Is that the story?

Seems pretty weak to me. Though, sure, local governments blow lots of money on stupid crap all the time. I'm sure there's lots of waste. Duh. It's government. But the waste that he's crowing about seems pretty small potatoes. Hell... I blow a lot more money than that every year, and I HAVE a boss that checks out my spending.

But the Trib *does* have it in for the city. They're paranoid for a reason. Ever since the whole Brame thing, it's open season for the Trib WRT to the city, and they even have a doe tag.

Too bad there isn't a media outlet that will touch the story about the Trib and their total vendetta.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

My staff are almost entirely young women. Condescending, arrogant, insubordinate young (20 years younger than I)b*****s, who of course consider me to be incompetent and not up to their professional standards.

They aren't babes (in the sense you mean)...but it definitely wasn't "the babes".

[Ramius]

He sprayed a mouse with a hose tonight though...

Snakeshot in .38 spl. It works.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

That was one of five stories on the subject in the front section of the Trib today.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

He sprayed a mouse with a hose tonight

Is that good or bad?

[HairOfTheDog]

Is that good or bad?

I imagine that depends on whether you are the mouse. I am ambivalent about it....

[Scott from the Left Coast]

There's blood in the water with them for sure. But they've got monopoly -- like most other cities rags. Nothing you can do about it...except get out of government. I have to live with them every day I have this job. No choice. Can't start a p#####g match with people who have bladders the size of ink barrels (or some such mixed metaphor).

[JenB]

I'm an alto! Though sometimes in our choir, it's hard to tell, everyone's singing his own note.

Yawn... back from choir... and it's just about bedtime.

[Ramius]

That was one of five stories on the subject in the front section of the Trib today.

That figures. The Trib will not be satisfied until the entire Tacoma government is turned over. That's just how it is going to be, I think. Too bad they keep pointing fingers at the wrong people.