Friday Burnt Toast and Coffee Time

We’re due for a rainy cool-down tomorrow. A retreat from the June-like weather we’ve been having for the past few days. Back to early May weather. A reminder to us not to put in those tomato plants until Memorial Day.

The lawn’s had its first mowing of the year. I fiddled with the gutter guards on the garage because one of the panels had a bow in it that  bugged me all winter. I’d love to get the big ladder out and take a peak at the house gutters, but I might need help. It may be aluminum, but it is still heavy. Not much planned for the weekend. I want to make some pasta sauce. Something which has to simmer on the stove for an hour. I’ve been to three different Picks and none of them had any fresh basil, so a trip to Sendik’s might be in order.

Go Brewers.

• Waukesha County is going to offer unpaid leave to some of its employees to try and plug a budget shortfall. A hole in the budget nowhere near as large as the one the state needs to fill, yet someone is going to have to explain to me how the Register of Deeds runs a $800,000 deficit. Don’t they charge a fee for the forms they issue?
• Jim Doyle and the Democrats have bankrupted us all. Finally, some state workers might feel the pinch. But Sen. Fred Risser speaks for most Democrats when he says that he would rather raise our taxes than cut spending.
• A court says that the cops can track you with GPS even if they don’t have a warrant. Theoretically, they can track anyone, even if they don’t suspect that person has done anything wrong. On TV, they used to call it “putting a tail” on someone. I don’t see anything different between that practice and using GPS. Libertarians and Liberals would disagree.
• Now, Librarians are a different story. In fact, here’s a different story that explains how Waukesha County libraries choose their homosexual porn books. For instance, I checked and the Waukesha Library has this on its shelf: The Penguin book of lesbian short stories. The library has“It’s Perfectly Normal” and an audio recording of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” in its collection.
• I’m not a big fan of banning books for whatever reason, by the way.
• Nice picture by the Freeman photographer. Speaking of Freeman photographers, former staff photographer Bryon Houlgrave has secured a new job with a paper in Mason City, Iowa. Good luck to Bryon.
• Everybody has forgotten about the helicopter flying through power line to get to a business on Arcadian Avenue. He’s still flying. It’s the city’s fault for not stopping him.
• I mentioned on Monday that the Fox River Anitques store had lost a number of vendors to the other Fox River area antique stores. The owner is turning the basement of Schultz Brothers into a craft mall.
• You don’t seriously think that Brett Favre’s “No” was his final answer do you?
• As if we didn’t know it here, Wisconsin is less free than other states. The study which came to this conclusion was based on data from 2006. Are you more free now than your were three years ago? Put out that cigarette.
• Friday Sound Off contains a scathing review of Waukesha by Jeff Scrima, whom some have mentioned as a possible contender for the mayor’s job. Somebody should be.