sarren

On the subject of politics I am not eloquent. I could mention that watching Bush on the news the other day say that he was personally taking charge of the Katrina situation made me shout 'No!! You need someone COMPETANT in charge!!'

So I'll just point people this way then. Thanks to somniesperus for the link.

Just for anyone who hasn't been paying attention, or is new here

*shows off shiny new friend tboy*

...my store is in a low socio-economic area and we generally get more than our share of scabby customers.


When the Red Cross box arrived from HO at about 6pm today I told my cashiers to just do what we did last time we had a charity box, ask the customers if they'd like to donate that 5c or 15c change.

Well, my cashiers were motivated. Three hours later and the box is heavy and my cashiers tell me with awe 'Some people are putting in notes." And apparently the people who did say no generally said 'I already gave at the bank'.

*feeling good about humanity right now*

psycho_tabby had her 21st birthday party on New Year's Eve. There was chocolate cake. Also prawns on sticks, a multitude of spiders lurking in a suspicious manner over our heads (I was worried it was going to turn into a scene from Harry Potter) and there was Dee! Home from Canada! And 21. And my friends were there. And Dee's nice family. And sparklers! I had much fun :)

And then there was the inevitable discussion about the updated death toll and how countries should be donating more...

And look! They are. And maybe it is a bit of a pissing contest, as the article says, but I have to think that it's because the scale of the tragedy just keeps escalating. The newspaper this morning proclaimed "127 000 dead, that number to double."

( On that discussion and Zebra's post... )