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Blue Gal's prayer reminded me a little of Robin Williams on his album Wow, Reality, What a Concept, where he admonished the audience to keep a little "full goose bozo" craziness in their lives, "just enough so that you don't become stupid."
I really miss Robin, but my tolerance for insanity is at an all time low.
The Nixle alert this morning said that PG&E will be turning off our electricity at 9PM tomorrow, probably until noon on Tuesday because of strong winds out of the east that are dry and make the danger of their equipment starting wildfires too great to risk.
OK, now that's a pain in the ass, but for us, specifically, it's scary as hell because four ridges to the east of here is this little thingie they're calling the Creek fire, which at more than 350,000 acres is the largest single (as in not a complex of) wildfire in California's history.
It's odd how that when they really want to, the state government can get their infrastructure on like nobody's business. There's a thing in the East Bay called the MacArthur Maze, which is just what it sounds like: the confluence of the 80, 880, 980, and 580 freeways right at the eastern end of the Bay Bridge, and in (if I remember correctly) 2007, a tanker truck of gasoline exploded and burned beneath the ramp to 580 east and ate a giant hole in the middle of the damn thing. Between the ramp being out of commission and the construction work to repair it, it really screwed up the Maze, almost as badly as when the Cypress structure fell down in the '89 earthquake.
Now, at the time, we had the goddamn Governator, and he had recently trod all over his penis in the authorization of the construction of the new Bay Bridge, so in bad need of some Cal-Trans credibility, he promised that the ramp would reopen in a week.
I was skeptical, and since I lived in Oakland and worked in San Francisco at the time, I saw the damn thing twice daily.
Well guess what? A week later I drove over the thing on my way home.
Which I gueess goes to show that if you have enough Democrats in your legislature, even a Republican bozo governor can't always screw everything up. Just most things most of the time.
Steve Kornacki is indeed annoying, but his big board analysis of the importance of Pennsylvania was somewhat informative, if you already knew what was going on and wondered what the numbers about it said.
Thank you again for the podcast, now I'm gonna see about eating everything in our little freezer so as not to lose it...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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