July 21, 2005

• First of all, the Cubs lost one of those games today that
  just………..uggggghhhhh!!! I don’t even want to talk about it, why
  did you ask? It just ended a short while ago, so I’m still freshly
  pissed about it.

  Yesterday, it actually rained. People at work were actually pretty
  excited about it, we opened up the blinds and several of us peered out
  the window watching what has become a rare occurence.  I just feel
  so bad for the farmers whose livelihood depends on the weather. Its
  sad. These people work from sun up to sun down, 7 days a week during
  the summer to take care of their crops, and if it doesn’t rain, they
  get fucked. Something entirely out of their control. Back at my first
  job years and years ago, we did a survey of farmers and the chemicals
  they use on their crops, so I have a good idea of what these people go
  through. I know how much they spend on producing their crops. I know
  how much time, money and effort they put into it, and its a damn shame
  that the lack of rain is ruining their lives. And, that might sound
  like an overstatement at first, but think about it. This is how they
  make money. They don’t work jobs. Their wives, they pretty much don’t
  wok jobs either, they stay at home and help with the farm. Same with
  the kids once they are over the age of about 10. And some of these
  farmers don’t ever stop, working until they are 80 or in some cases,
  until they die. Now, I know a lot of people bitch about their lawns
  being dry and grass being dead because of the drought, but the grass
  you earn is not dependent on the grass in your yard. And, I have heard
  other short-minded and selfish people say “well, tough shit for the
  farmers, they are the ones that decided to be farmers.” Well, somebody
  has to be a farmer. And in many cases, these are family owned farms.
  Their fathers ran the same farm, as did their grandpa. And while these
  same ignorant people are eating their corn on the cob with their steak,
  they don’t stop to realize it got their because some farmer put it
  there. Now, I think I have sounded like John Mellancamp for long
  enough, but consider giving money during Farm Aid this year.

  I went to get my driver’s license renewed today. I was telling somebody
  at work that I was planning on going today about 11 and he thought I
  was nuts, that I should get there early because it was packed. To be
  honest, it couldn’t be any easier. My days of being pissed off and
  bitter at the DMV just might be over. They were, dare I say,
  convenient.  I used to say that  government offices do
  everything possibel to inconvenience you, they sure have come a long
  way from the time when I waited in line for an hour only to have them
  deny me a license because my signature on my social security card
  didn’t match what I had just signed for them or from the time I showed
  up with a birth certificate, social security card and a piece of mail
  with my name and address on it and they said I needed more
  identification. Or the time when I had them there at my birth only to
  have them tell me they weren’t sure it was me so they couldn’t issue me
  a state id. Anywho, not only was there not a lot of people there, but
  they really handled things in an efficient manner that actually, get
  this, MAKES SENSE!!!! As expected, though, there were a few teens there
  getting their driver’s licenses. There was this one girl there that had
  on some short, very thin white skirt. This shit was so thin, it could
  have been confused for toilet paper………….the 2 ply kind of
  course. If I was straight, I would have been really into her, instead I
  just stood in line checking out a hot guy that was there.

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