… about hang drying laundry is that it takes 2 days to get things dry… especially if there are “heavier” clothes involved. Plus, if there is an overcast sky due to a high fog one has to wait for that to clear for the sun to peek through. How different it is in the Summer when the clothes on the line dries within an hour of being on the line. Yes, it is true… I do like stating the obvious. LOL!
Speaking of the obvious, sad news in the papers today… the MET may be closing. As soon as January the reports say. I do have mixed feelings about this simply because I worked there in a different lifetime. It is a valuable resource, etc but part of the folly here was the recently completed renovation. (That is another thing I have mixed feelings about.) I think it was originally budgeted at $10 million and ended up costing $27 million. Plus that “folly” happened long before the present economic downturn.
Don’t get me wrong… I am all for improvements and such. It is just a fact that when something is budgeted… the longer one waits to move on it the more expensive it is going to cost. (Have we not already seen enough instances of this in the recent past? Hello!) Perhaps proposed budgets should (be mandatory to) include projected costs increases over time when originally created. The law of realism (which I just made up) states that the longer one drags one’s ass the more it’s gonna cost… and that is even in the best of times. OK… so, I’ve taken the management to task there but there is enough blame to spread around.
Anyway, we can only hope for the best now… whatever that may be. Obviously no help (or effort) will come from the apathetic or those who voice disdain for anything Fresno… as evidenced by some of the comments in the original article. To them I could say “shit or get off the pot” but those folk are actually both shitting in and on the city they reside in. Conclusion: There seems to be quite a few who like living in their own shit.
