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While waiting for the bus this morning i looked down and noticed....worms! Dozens of long earthworms all over the road. None on the sidewalk, just on the road! Eek! We had rain last night and i think that usually happens in spring when the ground thaws. A good rain brings them out and they are everywhere. I don't know why they were on the road rather than the sidewalk nearer the grassy bits though there is a strip of earth and grass along the street where the light poles and trees are. I suppose they came out of there but it baffles me as to why i didn't see any on the sidewalks. ah spring has sprung, or at least staggered to its knees.
Gonna be nice this weekend, too.
One more week to wait for my sweetie to arrive! Yay! I have to get my US$ today I think. It's nice to have some cash even though I can still get money out of the ATMs. Pretty much everything is paid for aside from the airport bus into Port Authority and then cash needed for meals and a few souvenirs. Really looking forward to it now that the Boston bomber is in custody. Apparently he's said that he and his brother considered driving to NYC and setting off bombs in Times Square. Massachussets does not have the death penalty so i suppose that's why they're going to try to charge and convict the remaining idiot with using a Weapon of Mass Destruction. That must be a federal charge and comes with the death penalty but at the moment the prosecutors haven't decided whether they will in fact seek that form of punishment. Even if they go for it, they still don't know if a jury will assign that as the end result.
The thing i notice about American sentences (that is, trial conviction outcomes) is that a life sentence usually is life. 99 years or whatever. And if there's more than one victim they can get one of those for each, not necessarily to be served concurrently. They really do stay in jail for life with those sentences. None of this 25 year maximum before you can apply for parole unless you're deemed a "dangerous Offender".
Well anyway. I refuse to worry about all the other nutters out there that might take up the mantle and carry on the plan.
Gonna be nice this weekend, too.
One more week to wait for my sweetie to arrive! Yay! I have to get my US$ today I think. It's nice to have some cash even though I can still get money out of the ATMs. Pretty much everything is paid for aside from the airport bus into Port Authority and then cash needed for meals and a few souvenirs. Really looking forward to it now that the Boston bomber is in custody. Apparently he's said that he and his brother considered driving to NYC and setting off bombs in Times Square. Massachussets does not have the death penalty so i suppose that's why they're going to try to charge and convict the remaining idiot with using a Weapon of Mass Destruction. That must be a federal charge and comes with the death penalty but at the moment the prosecutors haven't decided whether they will in fact seek that form of punishment. Even if they go for it, they still don't know if a jury will assign that as the end result.
The thing i notice about American sentences (that is, trial conviction outcomes) is that a life sentence usually is life. 99 years or whatever. And if there's more than one victim they can get one of those for each, not necessarily to be served concurrently. They really do stay in jail for life with those sentences. None of this 25 year maximum before you can apply for parole unless you're deemed a "dangerous Offender".
Well anyway. I refuse to worry about all the other nutters out there that might take up the mantle and carry on the plan.