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Kitties are Solar Powered

I watch Missy sit in the sun every day, just like my Dickens used to and it makes me smile. Nick commented once that kitties have solar batteries and I think that is just about right. :-)

I know Missy charges her batteries so she can scamper around during playtime. She loves to play ball and bird-on-a-stick. Bernie charges hers so she can sproing after prey and scamper around the yard trying to subdue that tail of hers that mocks her openly. I’ve never seen a cat spin and jump like Bernadette when that tail starts taunting her!

Now DJ, on the other hand, does not sit in a sunbeam to charge his batteries. He believes in the sleep 20 hours a day rule, which requires very little reserve power.

I love being a Kitty Mama. It brings me much happiness! :-)

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McMansions in the ‘hood

So the headline today on the AJC is “Moratorium on McMansions”. The article is behind a paywall, fuckers that they are at the AJC.

Anyway, this issue of McMansions has been an increasing problem here in Atlanta. What McMansion means is a huge ass monstrosity of a house built to the lot line on a teensy 1/4 or 1/2 acre lot with a postage stamp “yard”. They are being shoved in neighborhoods where they are surrounded by small ranches or bungalows that are typical in an old INTOWN established neighborhood. This is happening due to the asshole suburbanites moving back intown because they are tired of driving 2 hours in traffic every day. (WAH fucking WAH you wankers)

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Happy Friday the 13th

There are many reasons that Friday the 13th is considered unlucky. There is a very long, very detailed article at about.com. Here is a portion of that article:

One theory, most recently propounded in the novel “The Da Vinci Code,” holds that it came about not as the result of a convergence, but a catastrophe, a single historical event that happened nearly 700 years ago. The catastrophe was the decimation of the Knights Templar, the legendary order of “warrior monks” formed during the Christian Crusades to combat Islam.

Renowned as a fighting force for 200 years, by the 1300s the order had grown so pervasive and powerful it was perceived as a political threat by kings and popes alike and brought down by a church-state conspiracy, as recounted by Katharine Kurtz in “Tales of the Knights Templar” (Warner Books: 1995):

“On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand Templars — knights, sergeants, priests, and serving brethren — in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy, various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None of these charges was ever proven, even in France — and the Order was found innocent elsewhere — but in the seven years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered excruciating tortures intended to force ‘confessions,’ and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed by burning at the stake.”

I like the number 13 and its primary number 4. It’s a number of challenge, kind of like the number 8 (karma) but not as powerful.

So, here’s to challenge and karma! Happy Friday the 13th!

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Current Events

Aside from the all-consuming traffic ticket, I have been mulling over some other stuff going on in my ‘hood as well as some political stuff.

First the ‘hood. A girl came knocking on my door the other day, looking for a jump. Her car died right down the street and she was trying to get home a couple of streets away. She had her baby and boyfriend with her. It’s important to note that they were snowflakes like me. So, I put my work on hold and go to knock on doors and try to find her some jump cables since ours were in the truck with Nick.

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I Fought the Law

…and the Law Won. Natch.

I went to court, the officer lied, brought in “witnesses” who did not even testify about me in particular, they testified about the “problem of people passing busses in Decatur”.

I’m $490 poorer.

Decatur City cops suck ass. There was no bus there, she changed her story, period. She was out to give a ticket, just like she told me at the outset. She has been sanctioned by the City of Decatur to hand out tickets, it’s one of her specific jobs, I found out. (The cop has to list off the stuff that s/he does specifically.)

Oh, well, gotta make EXAMPLES out of the rich white folk who are tryin’ to run down the po’ black chilluns in the screet every day in Downtown Decatur, right?

Whatever.

Even though I figured I’d lose, it’s still a bummer. But here’s a tip for anyone who’s never been to traffic court: if you think you’re gonna lose, just pay the ticket before your date or use no lo contendre. If you wait and go to traffic court, it costs you $70 more. If you use no lo, then you can’t use it again for some period of years, so be careful with it. I shoulda used it.

Here’s another tip: do NOT drive in Downtown Decatur between 2:30pm and 3:30pm M-F. Apparently Officer Strawn’s raison d’etre is to hand out $420 tickets. And they have 2 black women who are engaged by the city to come to every traffic ticket handed out as “witnesses” to the rampant passing of busses in Decatur. It’s a racket and it works.

Now I just have to find a way to shake it off and continue on. I had that money earmarked for some stuff that just won’t happen now. Hopefully another job will fall in my lap for $500 so I can offset this. At least I had the money and I didn’t have to dip into our household funds. It still totally sucks.