Warm and Productive

Today, though snowy, sleety, and rainy outside, was warm and productive inside. Didn’t even go out except for mail and trash can retrieval. Mail was well worth the walk: got another book on the Arduino (of which I read three chapters earlier).

Paid monthly bills which both pisses me off and makes me glad that I’ve made it through another month.  After the bills I read Arduino books and played with the circuit board all afternoon.

Had my first bottle of homemade beer. Taste is a little yeasty; kind of like sucking on the crust of a rye bread. Still, the beer really does taste pretty OK. Have already found two bottles whose caps didn’t sit right and they haven’t carbonated. I will try those later. If they are flat but taste like beer, I can use them for cooking. (Will check into glass bottles with caps instead of this plastic set.)

Newswise, my angry little heartjjjjjhjk98               (Buddy break)
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Buddy on the keyboard again. (Actually, the above was really followed by eight pages of carriage returns.)

As I was saying before being so fuzzily interrupted, newswise my angry little heart rejoiced at the capture of Mr. Ethan Couch, the “affluenza teen” from Texas. Authorities nabbed him and his mother in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Apparently the pair even had something like a bon voyage party before skipping the country. 

I’m thinking the more significant members of the family’s “club” will feed this particular  boy member to the sharks. First, they get rid of a conspicuous problem that draws attention to them; second, it’s “proof” that the rich can be brought to justice just like you and me. His momma might be rich, but the piranha legal system will be gouging huge chunks of those assets.

His momma is back in the U.S., having been deported from Mexico but the Mexican authorities are holding the boy for awhile because his lawyers have filed motions of some sort.

Any questions as to why these two Texans want to carry guns?

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law allowing the open carrying of handguns in public and of concealed handguns on state university campuses, his office said. Abbott, a Republican, said the measures secure Texans’ rights to bear arms guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. “Today, I am proud to expand liberty in the Lone Star State,” Abbott said in a statement.

Despair

They have nothing. They live in pockets of loneliness, despair, and violence in giant stone prisons incarcerated every bit as much as their imprisoned relatives and loved ones. Amidst the ruin and grime they stand with steel cores of self-respect, unbowed by the forces that beset them. Disrespect, however slight, is perceived as an assault against their very beings, and can draw swift, violent reactions. (You’ve taken everything else; you will not take their self-respect.)