Slow news days
Just for the record, I have slow news days here on my blog. Just like the real media. I feel better, somehow.
Earlier this week, one of the lead stories in my local newspaper presented the case that a major software company was making their product available to certain employees of the provincial Revenue ministry, for a price that was rediculously low. The slant was that such behavior was akin to pushing drugs! For the record, that company will sell to almost anyone, and if you aren’t smart enough to find a rediculously low price, you deserve to pay whatever the market can extract.
On the Island, for the second time this month, a bus has escaped and gone driverless on the main drag. Think of a Stephen King flick. And again, being a slow news day, the story was front page filler. Yes, if you park your bus on a hillside and forget to apply the brake correctly, the bus may respond to the basic law of gravity and “seek” a new resting place downslope. If there are cars, or light poles or parking meters in the way, so be it. Nothing sinister, nothing magical. Simple human error. If the bus could go without a driver, don’t you think the companies would be doing it all the time? Drivers earn good money. Passengers don’t pay much for the seat rental. I rest my case.
Really quiet here, this evening. The others have social lives, and they’re out and about. I’m guarding the house (in the absence of a reliable hound). At least I get to choose my channel on the TV. And for the record, today marks the sixth anniversary of this blog going daily.
