How's this for crazy?

Between my two children they go to three schools. On Tuesday, one school is closed and the other two are open. On Friday, a different school is closed and two others are open. This makes childcare challenging.


And then how's this?

After Katrina I went from 7 employees to three. It took almost a year to find replacements because unemployment benefits kept getting extended for Katrina "victims", the labor shortage was so bad that Burger King was paying $10/hour and even 14 year olds could get jobs. Last month I finally get all my employees in line and one of them gets diagnosed with MS. I find another medical assistant to hire to help out my overworked nurses and put some slack into the system since one employee now has significant health issues and......she can't find childcare because.....the daycares have a shortage of workers. Arrrgh

And this?

Insurance companies throughout the Gulf Coast region have almost universally dropped wind and hail coverage from the homeowners policies as they come up for renewal. Excuse me? How much money does the insurance industry have? Aren't they in the business of assuming risk? In order to get wind and hail coverage people have to buy their insurance through the state "I can't find insurance anywhere" programs. So, people pay taxes to support the program and then pay extremely high premiums to get the insurance. To make it even better, the state program is written such that it is not suppossed to cover any homes raised more than 3 feet. So, you have to raise your home to get flood insurance and then you can't get wind and hail? Huh?

How about this?

My husband worked for two days making a spooky forest in our front yard for Halloween. It didn't seem to faze him that we haven't had any trick or treaters in the past 5 years. He put signs up around the neighborhood, in the office and at the hospital. No. One. Came. What is he doing today? He is making a wooden coffin to store all the Halloween stuff in until next year so that he can do it again.
The man has finally gone crazy.


I can't wait to see what Tuesday brings for further irony. Will the Representative who had $90k cash in his freezer get reelected? Will New Orleans still have seven property tax assessors after Tuesday? Will the party that is for family values and yet ignores pedophilic behavior still control all threes branches of the Federal government? Will John Kerry ever learn to be quiet? Only time will tell.