Pensioners Rants - Jack Sakalauskas -

SINKING - Big rain all night, big rain to-day. Had some rain come in under the cement at my basement door. My wife phoned Permacrete to look at it. There is a drain that runs all around the house. If it gets plugged up, the water may go into the house. And their solution is to dig a trench from the back of the house to the front to drain the water. They would dig this trench right through my basement floor. Picture that. This all happened a couple of weeks ago. Betty thinks we should get it done right away before it gets worse. And my idea is, lets not panic. We first have to check this out better and get more info from people who are not trying to sell us something.
The back door has three steps going down to a cement pad. In this pad is a hole that takes the rain into the drain. This hole filled up with leaves so we had a nice wading pool and the water went under the door jamb. Got rid of all the leaves and Betty put a wire fish into the hole and off to both sides. So far there is no water coming in.
Betty called a friend about it. Her husband works in this area of business. He came by and told us that the best thing to do was break the cement and dig down to the pipe. Then we can probably clean it out. We can do that after the rain stops.
NO GAS - Heard on the news about some gas stations being closed in Alberta. Esso I think. It seems that a refinery was shut down for an upgrade. It took longer than expected and the reserves ran out. There's a wakeup call for you. If something happens to some refineries, after three days you won't be able to get gas. Grocery stores operate the same way. Warehouses only have enough for three days. Our system depends on everything moving at the same time, all the time.
DAY OFF - I love this headline. Shuttle crew takes day off What do they do when they take the day off ? Go for a stroll ?
JOB LOSS - Intel to Slash 1,000 Management Jobs They use that word management very freely. In most cases it is a pay raise. And you feel much better when you are called Manager. The press always makes it look like there are actual management jobs being lost, when in reality its the workers as usual.
After all you have to have the money to pay all those Vice Presidents, because there may be hundreds of them on the payroll.
MILITARY - 3 killed as helicopter crashes during 'bread and butter' exercise
You don't have to go to Afghanistan to get killed. It can happen by just being at work.
INTERESTING FACT - The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour is 61,000.