A Motion From The Floor

After the election, I decided that I'd keep an eye on Wyoming's new representative, Cynthia Lummis. While I had (and will no doubt continue to have) my fair share of political disagreements with her, I'm doing my best to give her a fair chance to do her job before casting judgement.

Ms. Lummis isn't off to a good start.

As you may have heard, the first bill signed by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. When the bill was in the House, only three Republicans voted for it, and none of them hail from the Equality State. This is pretty disappointing to me on a few levels, one of which being Ms. Lummis' stated desire to "safeguard our families."

Things being what they are, I move that we only pay Cynthia Lummis 78% of what she's supposed to be making as a congresswoman, since she apparently doesn't believe in equal pay for equal work.

Repectfully submitted,
Regis

Knock, Knock!

Looks like December finally showed up in Sheridan (I understand it made an early appearance south of here). Let's see if he sticks around any longer than November did.


I'm just glad I seized the opportunity to go for a run yesterday afternoon after getting back from testing - there was the better part of an hour of daylight left, it was in the high 50's, and I wasn't dog tired. Instead of listening to one of the C25K podcasts (knowing that I probably wouldn't make it a solid 20 minutes and thus subjecting myself to the disappointment that comes with walking before the "you're half way there!" interjection), I instead played one of the more uptempo playlists on my iPod. It didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped, as I have a tendency to become a human metronome (just ask the piano player in the praise team I play guitar for at church) and most of the songs were just a bit too fast for me to keep up with. That being said, "Okay" by Shitdisco is the little bear's porridge to my Goldilocks - just right.

I have a number these days,
Regis

Traffic Jam

Here's a quick snapshot of the heavy traffic that I got stuck for a few minutes outside of Recluse on my way out to the reservoir on which I'm doing testing:


I love this state,
Regis