Are they still trying to increase the sales tax to over 8%?

May there be strong winds.

This is exactly what mine do!

Same here. I managed to fall asleep between midnight and 12:05, if texts I didn't hear are any indication.

Did you make it by 9?

I'm so sorry for your loss. It's so, so hard to lose a piece of your heart. I read once that grief is the price we pay for loving others. She was clearly loved.

"...maintained this quality of breath, although here it acquired a tinge of metallic halitosis, due to fumes expelled by tourist busses, trucks delivering Dixie beer, and, on Decatur Street, a mass-transit motor coach named Desire."

-Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

"...flowers, magnolias, and the mystery smell of the river scented the atmosphere, amplifying the intrusion of organic sleaze. It was aphrodisiac and repressive, soft and violent at the same time. In New Orleans, in the French Quarter, miles from the barking lungs of alligators, the air...

That's definitely understandable.

Fair enough, but I'm operating on the premise that "the way things are" are no longer guaranteed. IMO, better to disconnect from the debt if possible, but YMMV.