Banking On It

1202.1; 851.8; 25.9

Moved money to credit union, where it will await tax time. Ugh, I guess Obama won't be able to help yet then. Lots of surface-street riding in Santa Rosa, where it seems there are always bike lanes where they're not needed and seldom bike lanes where they are needed. Certain drivers make a point of passing as close as they think they can get. I try to avoid streets like that, but hate to go on the sidewalks, which, in California are mainly repositories for stuff they couldn't put in the street: telephone poles and their wire supports, manhole covers, garbage out for collection (from five days ago); also the concrete squares that comprise the sidewalk are frequently pushed up in various directions by tree roots and seismic activity...

In a similar vein, Note to Self: NEVER ride Occidental Road east of Sanford again.

Have been thinking about this quote and finally looked it up: "I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."-Adlai Stevenson. It's hard to believe the Republican party still exists, if they were using the same tricks that long ago (this probably would've been 1952 or 56, when he ran for president against Eisenhower--my grandma remembered him as "ol' Snake Eyes"--a name, I think, of her own invention. I don't think her voting criteria changed much over the years; it was mostly based on who she did or didn't like the looks of). Grandma is one of McCain's lost voters--if she had survived another year, she certainly would've voted for him.

Think I'll go see "W" today...