Well this has turned out to be a 4 1/2 day weekend. I only worked 4 hours thursday and then had the rest of the day to enjoy the nice weather. We hit the north market, and had some over priced food (I think the north market is over rated) and then walked up high street. We happened to see Christen at Rigsby's sitting at the bar so we stopped to have a drink and hang with her which was fun. We don't see each other that much with our busy lives. I ended up not having to work friday since my closing was cancelled, good and bad, good b/c I got to enjoy the awesome weather all day, not good b/c I made no money. Now we're off to hookaville to listen to music all weekend. Hopefully the ground isn't too wet out there with the rain we had last night. but I have been to festivals with water up past my ankles so it shouldn't be too bad.
Sam Bush, Particle, Galatic, The Wailers, Robert Randolph and the Family band, who else will be there?, I forget. Hooka themselves are ok I guess, but they get some good bands at their festivals.

Ok we're out.

We went to see the new Star Wars movie on opening day, and I would recommend seeing it. We saw a part of the Attack of the Clones on TV yesterday, and now I think I am going to watch it again (on LaJuane's big movie screen TV) and then go see the new movie again. I am staring to feel like those dorks that dressed up. But I always did enjoy the Star Wars movies. I was Darth Vader for Halloween when I was four years old. My mom and her boyfriend took me to see King Kong and some other movie, and between films they had a costume contest, which I won. Probably b/c I was the youngest kid there, I remember alot of adults being dressed up too. I won this snake thing and a rubix cube (did I spell that right?)
I remember seeing Return of the Jedi several times in the Theatres. I read some reviews of the movie before we went, and some people gave it a bad review, I think that they were wrong. Talking about the acting, who really gives a shit about the acting, it is the story that it interesting. I mean it is a sci-fi film really. Acting is stupid anyway, go see a play if you care about that shit.

I finally got the movie I ordered off of amazon, L'ultimo Bacio. I bought it a few years ago in Italy, but the DVD won't play on our players here, so I am sending it to Jami, and I got a copy I can watch here. It was a good movie. Good to hear la lingua italiano. I wish I was there now. Hate this country.

Already looking forward to Saturday.

Some stuff from the PETA people:

"PETA Breaking News

Today, at a news conference in Washington, D.C., PETA revealed the findings of its 11-month undercover investigation into Covance, the international drug-testing giant (formerly known as Hazelton).
PETA’s investigator worked as a technician inside the Vienna, Virginia, Covance laboratory, where she documented workers who were striking, choking, taunting, and deliberately tormenting terrified monkeys. She documented monkeys with broken arms left without proper veterinary treatment and animals in desperate need of euthanasia, who were kept alive and in agony just to please drug companies. Other primates, used in lethal irradiation experiments, developed open wounds on their stomachs.

When PETA called the U.S. Department of Agriculture for help during our investigation, the agency took five days to respond. Please help these suffering primates, who live in constant fear of the next horrible thing that will happen to them. Read about our investigation and watch our video at CovanceCruelty.com now!"

The Phamida Pharmacy is where this woman had problems. More info can be found on the NARAL website site, also where if any woman has been denied a presciption filled she can post a complaint.
I have already written a complaint to the Walmart people which is why I know they don't give a shit, got a nice response back from them.

"Becky's Story...

I'd like to share my personal experience at the Pamida Pharmacy on Saturday, April 16th, 2005.

I walked up to a busy counter with a prescription for two medications. The pharmacist took the note and told me she'd fill one medication, but I'd have to come back on Monday to have the birth control filled by the other pharmacist. I verbally questioned this, because she herself was a pharmacist. Her answer was "for moral reasons I will not fill a birth control prescription."

I challenged the pharmacist by telling her, "It's a valid medical prescription signed by a medical doctor. Your other customers are receiving service. I shouldn't have to come back Monday when I'm here now." I was refused a second time on the same grounds and told to try another pharmacy. My response, "No, my insurance information is here and this is where I come to get my prescriptions." I was refused a third time. When I asked her to show me written documentation that would give her a legal right to refuse, she had nothing to show me.

Correspondence with the Pamida pharmacist manager was most disturbing. I was again told to come back when the other pharmacist was working or to follow a sticker on the prescription that instructs the patient to call in their refill a week ahead of time. Although they upheld the actions of their pharmacist, I was not told anything regarding their policy on the issue or given any evidence that the pharmacist acted within her legal right.

We are constantly being confronted with such emotionally charged issues as abortion, family welfare, domestic abuse, etc. It seems very contradictory to refuse a product whose absence will only make these issues more volatile."



If you want to be anti-choice fine, but to not fill a prescription for birth control (not killing a baby by the way) because of moral reasons, well don't be a fucking pharmacist then. I bet these same assholes fill plenty of prescriptions for all of those great addictive controlled substances so commonly prescribed, sleep aids, anit-depressants, you name it.

Not that I would ever walk into a Walmart in the first place, (for many reasons) but if one of their right wingers are working at the pharmy counter you can count on not having your prescription filled. Walmart doesn't feel it should require it's pharmacists to fill anything they don't want to.

Gotta love these only fuck to procreate assholes.

Privatizing social security isn't the best idea, but giving the money to the government to borrow against to spend on shit other that what is was intended for hasn't worked so well either. Either way social security is fucked if W has anything to do with it.
Most people won't be looking forward to a pension when they retire. I wouldn't be counting on my 401k either. Bush's plan and 401k seem similar. Hmmm.

There is a good book by Robert Kiosaki called Prophecy that talks about the next stock market crash, and everyones 401k going down the shitter (again for some). I highly recommend reading it.

Well I have been slacking on the blogging. Working too much lately! Well I have been enjoying the nice weather as much as possible too. I have had a cold again for about a week now, it is finally getting better. I was just sick last month with the same type of annoying cold. Being around all those kids all the time isn't healthy. There is always someone that is sick.
After these next two weeks are over I will be working less. Well that is the goal. I won't have to teach the week after the recitals so I will only being working at 2 jobs that week. After memorial day weekend I am going to teach and do closings, and work on a few loans. So hopefully I will be working about 30 hours a week. I may have to be a little more conservative on my spending, but I need to enjoy the summer as much as possible. June is usually the best month of the year here in Columbus, so I need to enjoy it.
We decided to go to Hookaville this year since it is cheap and nearby. Plus some good bands will be there, and it is on memorial day weekend, so it won't require taking time off of work.
Not that I mind missing work of course :)

Working is a waste of my time.