That’s what PJ said while we were on a photo safari around the Salt River in central Phoenix today. I thought she was just seeing clouds, but after looking through binoculars, I saw she was right.
A couple of days after some nasty winter storms blew through Arizona, Four Peaks east of Phoenix do indeed have snow on them. Despite living in the warm desert, we’ve got snow on the mountains within eyesight of downtown Phoenix.
Also just a couple of days after the storms, as you might notice from this photo, we’ve got our crappy air back.
Can’t have everything, I suppose.
As far as I’m concerned, the first half of 2009 sucked. It sucked big, sharp, pointy rocks, and I’m glad it’s over.
The second half of the year started off better, but less than a third of the way in, here come those rocks again.
Let’s get the fear out of the way first, shall we? And by “out of the way”, I mean knock it off already! Enough with fomenting fear among the masses on health care reform. It’s apparently too much to ask to have a rational discussion about an issue that literally touches all of our lives here in the United States. The current health care delivery system is broken. Fix it! The “free market” isn’t fixing it. It’s breaking it more and more every damn day. It was tough enough getting the insurance company and medical professionals to play nice when I had cancer 24 years ago, and their practices have just gotten worse in the interim.
Now a little loathing…
Phoenix drivers, oh how I hate thee. Stop speeding, passing on the right, performing unsafe lane changes, tailgating, etc, etc, etc. I know it’s freakin’ hot. We’re looking at yet another heat advisory today (over 110 degrees). That’s not an excuse to be an asshole behind the wheel.
Twitter, stop fixing what aint broke. ReTweets already work just fine, thankyouverymuch. You feeling the overriding need to fix something? Block the spambots!
Got a friend about to lose her home due to unemployment, and upside-down mortgage, and a raging mold issue (her neighbors have the mold, too). I just… I… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGHHHHH! Just can’t articulate how angry I am about this.
Arizona’s government needs to shit or get off the pot. Put a budget in place, you morons! I’m sick of your games. Just get your damn job done for once.
And then there’s time. There’s never enough of it. I just get started on something, and I run ou…
That stuff that’s falling from the sky today. You know, the liquidy stuff that makes the weeds grow and makes the roads very slick. That’s called “rain”, and there’s going to be a good quantity of it falling from the sky today and tomorrow. You know what that means, right?
Morons.
Yes, every time it rains around here, that’s when the biggest, baddest morons hit the road and decide they need to go somewhere. Rather than drive a little more carefully, these folks drive faster so they can get to where they’re going and get out of the evil rain as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, some of them succeed all too well and some of them help others avoid having to drive in the rain ever again. There’s already a fatal accident on I-10 near downtown this morning and it’s only 6:30am.
Be safe out there, will ya? The life you save may be my own.
General | Steve | 
January 24, 2010 9:23 pm | 
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