limbo
i'm chillin in a computer lounge at the crowne plaza in lexington ky.
tracey and i have been down here for a couple of days. she had a business trip, so i tagged along with the thought of living it up in a nice hotel. so i dropped her off at work this morning and was getting settled back into bed with the paper when housekeeping came and kicked me out. it was rather amusing.
but it is a nice old hotel with very genteel (sp)? gay waiters who take great care of you, and a barber shop in the basement where haircuts are only $8. i am freshly shorn and looking good. so i suppose i'm going to chill in lexington and try to get some work done and make some calls until tracey gets out of work.
then we're headed back to cincinnati and straight to her parents house for dinner. this boyfriend thing is beginning to wear on me, honestly.
just saw blaise a few days ago. i drove up to cleveland and picked him up from the airport on sunday, and we spent the night with carol and pat. jonathon, they both asked about you. had a great time with them, and drove into oberlin for all of half an hour before i headed straight to cincinnati, then straight to lexington. my cellreception has been really shitty lately in all the traveling i'm doing. i'm wondering if the katrina situation may be affecting it.
speaking of katrina, i am totally at a loss. not only am i completely saddened and outraged by the federal government's pathetic relief efforts, lack of gas price capping (though refining operations are resuming as of today and the price of crude dropped $1.61, so it's not the crisis we thought it might be), but bush and his associates are spending more time making excuses and faking photoops to put a spin on the situation than actually being present in the area and actually doing something. bush in on fucking vacation again. he stopped in mississippi and alabama, and then flew over new orleans on the way to san diego. and now he is apparently back at the ranch.
beyond all of that, the navy has just "awarded" an exclusive rebuilding contract to haliburton to renovate naval bases and other large areas in louisiana.
and what REALLY pisses me off is that while the high ranking feds are essentially doing nothing to be active in relief efforts, they are spinning pr like mad. the scare of spiking gas prices was due to the fact we last about a quarter of our oil refining capabilities due to katrina. the feds tried to make themselves look good by getting up there and saying, "we will provide 5 million barrels of crude oil a day until the crisis passes", out of the federal stockpile of 70 million barrels that are kept underground in texas.
the fucking problem with this as all those involved with oil refining operations pointed out, is that we lost a very negligible amount of crude oil, and all the crude oil in the world does not help. we have lost 25% of our ability to refine it, which will take time to recover.
and let us not forget that the reason we don't have enough national guardsmen in new orleans right now is because they are in iraq. enough said.
i should go do some work. i'm going to begin looking for places in philly today. i'll be moving out of my place in cincinnati at the end of the month, and moving in with tracey for a couple of weeks, and then heading to philly. part of me is feeling really tired, and really happy and settled for once in cincinnati, probably due to the fact that i'm finally kinda getting my shit together. but i know i have to get it done. it just sucks to finally be somewhat content just as i was totally ready to leave.
tracey and i have been down here for a couple of days. she had a business trip, so i tagged along with the thought of living it up in a nice hotel. so i dropped her off at work this morning and was getting settled back into bed with the paper when housekeeping came and kicked me out. it was rather amusing.
but it is a nice old hotel with very genteel (sp)? gay waiters who take great care of you, and a barber shop in the basement where haircuts are only $8. i am freshly shorn and looking good. so i suppose i'm going to chill in lexington and try to get some work done and make some calls until tracey gets out of work.
then we're headed back to cincinnati and straight to her parents house for dinner. this boyfriend thing is beginning to wear on me, honestly.
just saw blaise a few days ago. i drove up to cleveland and picked him up from the airport on sunday, and we spent the night with carol and pat. jonathon, they both asked about you. had a great time with them, and drove into oberlin for all of half an hour before i headed straight to cincinnati, then straight to lexington. my cellreception has been really shitty lately in all the traveling i'm doing. i'm wondering if the katrina situation may be affecting it.
speaking of katrina, i am totally at a loss. not only am i completely saddened and outraged by the federal government's pathetic relief efforts, lack of gas price capping (though refining operations are resuming as of today and the price of crude dropped $1.61, so it's not the crisis we thought it might be), but bush and his associates are spending more time making excuses and faking photoops to put a spin on the situation than actually being present in the area and actually doing something. bush in on fucking vacation again. he stopped in mississippi and alabama, and then flew over new orleans on the way to san diego. and now he is apparently back at the ranch.
beyond all of that, the navy has just "awarded" an exclusive rebuilding contract to haliburton to renovate naval bases and other large areas in louisiana.
and what REALLY pisses me off is that while the high ranking feds are essentially doing nothing to be active in relief efforts, they are spinning pr like mad. the scare of spiking gas prices was due to the fact we last about a quarter of our oil refining capabilities due to katrina. the feds tried to make themselves look good by getting up there and saying, "we will provide 5 million barrels of crude oil a day until the crisis passes", out of the federal stockpile of 70 million barrels that are kept underground in texas.
the fucking problem with this as all those involved with oil refining operations pointed out, is that we lost a very negligible amount of crude oil, and all the crude oil in the world does not help. we have lost 25% of our ability to refine it, which will take time to recover.
and let us not forget that the reason we don't have enough national guardsmen in new orleans right now is because they are in iraq. enough said.
i should go do some work. i'm going to begin looking for places in philly today. i'll be moving out of my place in cincinnati at the end of the month, and moving in with tracey for a couple of weeks, and then heading to philly. part of me is feeling really tired, and really happy and settled for once in cincinnati, probably due to the fact that i'm finally kinda getting my shit together. but i know i have to get it done. it just sucks to finally be somewhat content just as i was totally ready to leave.