Another Saturday morning almost gone. Baxter and I went to the park today. We had a good time and both of us were worn out by the end of the fourth round. I can tell it is getting hotter here already – it is so humid out you start sweating before you even get out of the doorway to the house. There is a slight breeze but even it will be gone in another hour or so.
I need to get to the library because I need to take a nap before I go to work today. Sleep eluded me quite a bit so halfway through the night I got up and took another sleeping pill with half a glass of wine. That did the trick but now I’m still tired.
Today is “civies” day so can wear whatever we want as long as it isn’t: short shirts, shirts that show cleavage, no shirts that are even the slightest transparent, shirts with ANY kind of writing unless it is the sheriff’s office or one of the agencies we serve such as “Venice Fire Department” or something similar, no hats, nothing with any sort of sports emblems, shorts, skirts if you don’t wear a slip, capries, or sandals of any sort including clogs and mules. By the time a person adheres to the rules, there isn’t much left to wear but jeans and a tank top or regular shirt. So civvies day is also something tightly regulated by the Gestapo. If you are found to be in violation of the “civvies” dress code, you can be sent home to change and/or your civvies day privileges revoked. No, this is a democracy, not a dictatorship…where’d you get that idea?
Our “freedoms” are really so limited in the United States that calling us a democracy is idiocy. What is worse is that some people thing Uncle Sam should do even more to regulate it’s citizen’s such as – no profanity in public, “giving the finger” would be illegal, etc. I can think of others but those two have been on my mind lately from calls I have received.
Well, time to go to the library. If I get stuck on the topic of politics, I’d be at the computer all day. I know I’m in the fire pod tonight so will have to make sure I take stuff to do.
