Mormons and Idiots
Jun. 30th, 2014 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogToday brought news, in our own local little world, that was quite good. Beyond our local range of zip codes, less so.
I saw the kids briefly today, on a round of Rochester errands that started late (due to a late-morning doctor's appointment- see below) and ended early (due to a need to get back before the end of the workday). When I stopped at their apartment, Emily filled me in on her work and their living plans. She was scheduled to begin training at the new job tomorrow; that's been pushed back a day due to some air-conditioning issues at the rather ancient building she'll be working at- and she'd also worked things out with her current part-time people to continue on weekends there for at least the time being. Even with those extra hours, though, she was about ready to give notice to their current landlord to be out by the end of next month, which had to be delivered today.
In the end, it was a good thing that it wasn't. Because she called just as I was heading back home, to tell me they'd found what might be the perfect place for them, literally minutes on foot from where she'll be working in the Village of Palmyra. It's a two-bedroom, with full kitchen, hookups for their own washer/dryer, and is cat-friendly. The rent will be $150 a month less than they're paying now for much less space. Gas and electric are not included, but they're already paying an electric bill at the current apartment. One concern was that it's on a corner building just a block from the heart of Palmyra (which, as every schoolkid knows, is the place where Joseph Smith founded the LDS Church back in the 1800s). Eleanor reassured her that a corner lot in Palmyra is not the same as some of the urban streety places we looked at two summers ago. I heard that part of the conversation and chimed in, "C'mon, it's fucking Mormons." The biggest distraction will likely be white-shirted missionaries knocking on their door.
They have an appointment to look at it Thursday; if they like it, and the landlord likes them (and their/our credit), they can have it September 1st, giving them more time to plan the transition. This, I like:)
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The idiots of the day, on the other hand, are down in DC. Five of them on the Supreme Court decided that "closely held" corporations (which can be huge) have more human rights than 51 percent of the population of this country. They got there through a ruling that's so full of shit that it's going to need a septic service truck to clean the tank out. The swing-voter would have upheld the Obamacare contraceptive mandate except for the illusory notion that, in his view, the government could directly provide such health care benefits in any case where a "sincere" corporation found it against its views. As if that's gonna happen; and as if that would stop Hobby Lobbies from suing anyway, just as the Little Sisters of the Poor did when the Administration carved out just such a loophole for them. Apparently, signing a statement that you object to providing contraception is just as religiously offensive as providing it, because, slippery slope.
I'd like to see these five grumpy old men slide down an ice-coated slippery slope into the waiting gates of hell right about now.
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Below those levels of hell are the ones inside my ears, and those are the ones I dealt with late this morning. Seven days of ordinary antibiotics slowed, but did not stop, my ear infection, and it got worse again over the weekend. This time, I called my own doc first thing and got a late-morning checkup. He prescribed a higher-dosed and faster-acting med, which allegedly will cure it in 10 days after taking the drug for only five. I've done the first day's double dose and am crossing my fingers (and eardrum) that this one kills the nasties.
I saw the kids briefly today, on a round of Rochester errands that started late (due to a late-morning doctor's appointment- see below) and ended early (due to a need to get back before the end of the workday). When I stopped at their apartment, Emily filled me in on her work and their living plans. She was scheduled to begin training at the new job tomorrow; that's been pushed back a day due to some air-conditioning issues at the rather ancient building she'll be working at- and she'd also worked things out with her current part-time people to continue on weekends there for at least the time being. Even with those extra hours, though, she was about ready to give notice to their current landlord to be out by the end of next month, which had to be delivered today.
In the end, it was a good thing that it wasn't. Because she called just as I was heading back home, to tell me they'd found what might be the perfect place for them, literally minutes on foot from where she'll be working in the Village of Palmyra. It's a two-bedroom, with full kitchen, hookups for their own washer/dryer, and is cat-friendly. The rent will be $150 a month less than they're paying now for much less space. Gas and electric are not included, but they're already paying an electric bill at the current apartment. One concern was that it's on a corner building just a block from the heart of Palmyra (which, as every schoolkid knows, is the place where Joseph Smith founded the LDS Church back in the 1800s). Eleanor reassured her that a corner lot in Palmyra is not the same as some of the urban streety places we looked at two summers ago. I heard that part of the conversation and chimed in, "C'mon, it's fucking Mormons." The biggest distraction will likely be white-shirted missionaries knocking on their door.
They have an appointment to look at it Thursday; if they like it, and the landlord likes them (and their/our credit), they can have it September 1st, giving them more time to plan the transition. This, I like:)
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The idiots of the day, on the other hand, are down in DC. Five of them on the Supreme Court decided that "closely held" corporations (which can be huge) have more human rights than 51 percent of the population of this country. They got there through a ruling that's so full of shit that it's going to need a septic service truck to clean the tank out. The swing-voter would have upheld the Obamacare contraceptive mandate except for the illusory notion that, in his view, the government could directly provide such health care benefits in any case where a "sincere" corporation found it against its views. As if that's gonna happen; and as if that would stop Hobby Lobbies from suing anyway, just as the Little Sisters of the Poor did when the Administration carved out just such a loophole for them. Apparently, signing a statement that you object to providing contraception is just as religiously offensive as providing it, because, slippery slope.
I'd like to see these five grumpy old men slide down an ice-coated slippery slope into the waiting gates of hell right about now.
----
Below those levels of hell are the ones inside my ears, and those are the ones I dealt with late this morning. Seven days of ordinary antibiotics slowed, but did not stop, my ear infection, and it got worse again over the weekend. This time, I called my own doc first thing and got a late-morning checkup. He prescribed a higher-dosed and faster-acting med, which allegedly will cure it in 10 days after taking the drug for only five. I've done the first day's double dose and am crossing my fingers (and eardrum) that this one kills the nasties.