Bubba Has Ick

I'm not making that up, either. I can't figure out who the genius was that invented that absolutely clever, most-certainly imaginative name for a disease.

Poor thing has a parasite that Betas can get and it causes them to do really weird shit - not like I need that from a fucking fish, but he's still my Bubba. Since I'm not about to send him to the vet (I've already dropped about $500 on cat tranquilizers and vet bills this month), I looked up Beta illnesses and they said it had to do with the water's ph and other things, including his carbon filter. Took care of the carbon filter yesterday and will get a ph kit today. Where the hell are those litmus papers when you need them?

Speaking of cats, most of them are off Valium and Prozac. Sadly, I'm now being prescribed both. However, I do have an advantage over those evil meds that have been making me so godamn sick - timing. Don't take them all at once in the morning. K-pax (yeah, that's a real fucking drug) is now downed at 3PMish. It seems to help, but who knows. Two more weeks before more visits to the vampire, who will tell me if the problems are getting better. I've been monitoring it lately and it seems a bit extreme, but then again, I don't have a "M.D." after my name and even my school loans aren't that high.

Friday night was bad. We have decided to fight work with legal action. The eunichs at Tech don't seem to understand that I don't lay down very easily - that should be taken literally, also. If it costs hundreds of thousands to get back my mere $1,400, tough shit. What a joke. However, I've made nicey with the lawyer and he's back on our side again and we are together on this decision. Sometimes, there is a proverbial final straw.

We met a nice couple from the Ninth Ward, who kept coming by to offer to "rake the yard" or whatnot. Finally, yesterday, I asked him if he could cut the grass since I can't do it right now and it was getting really, really bad. Turns out this guy can do all kinds of side work, which I can definitely use and he and his wife can certainly use the money. It's nice to give back. When the wife and I were talking, she said she's originally from Shreveport, but moved to N.O. about 12 years ago. She said she will never go back and seem she seems to really want to make it work here in Atlanta. We still have around 800,000 refugees here. What a fucking shame that Bush still has not done chicken shit to get those folks back online. However, what can they contribute to him? These are poor, mostly black, folks that have always lived simple lives. They are not Arab billionaires with oil and so much money they have to burn it up by building artificial archipelagos (which will fuck up my planet) and indoor skiing huts.

OK - off my soap box.

Speaking of fucking up my planet, I want to have a kid so I'm determined to do what I have to in order to make sure he/she has one to live in for at least the remainder of their life. That being said, I still haven't seen, "An Inconvenient Truth", but I'm pretty sure it will depress me and I'm almost sure I've heard or read most of this stuff anyway. Leonardo DiCaprio, who I previously didn't care much about, is showing good cajones since his movie, "The 11th Hour" did well at Cannes. Maybe one day the rest of America will get it. We are 5% of the world's population, but produce 27% of the trash. Yeah, yeah, China is worse, but look at what they're doing... starting to educate their little ones at age 3 - that's three fucking years old. Remember? We were all still pulling poopie-nuts out of our diapers and picking our noses, but these kids are learning the tango and advanced trig - which I failed miserably at the ripe old age of 27.

Well, time to take the evil pills. Also, my favourite radio show, "Organic X" comes on in a few. The rival radio station here has a similar show on Saturday and Sunday mornings, but they play "old" chill songs. Nice departure. I haven't heard some of those tunes since High School. Peter Gabriel still rules and Sting is going on tour again. Maybe I'm not that old after all!