Today is day one of a four-day weekend. So what I have I been doing? Sleeping until 10 a.m. was one activity, or inactivity if you will. I probably would have awakened a little earlier had I not stayed up until 2:30 this morning watching coverage of the commuter plane crash in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. Unlike the first reports heard after the crash, it has been confirmed a total of 50 people died in the crash including one person who was inside the house hit by the aircraft.
Except for taking an hour’s walk today I have been glued to CNN most of the time watching even more coverage of the crash in between reports on the progress of the stimulus bill. House Minority Leader John Boehner tried to ride his high horse, using the old “big bill throw-down” shtick in which a politician has a particularly thick piece of legislation and when he finishes pontificating he throws the bill down with a thud. Boehner said no one in Congress read every page of that bill although other reps pointed out that most of the pages have been around awhile and aren’t exactly hot off the press. Oh well. I enjoy watching Boehner about as much as I like watching CNN’s Rick Sanchez, who is on right now, so I better change the channel.
Well, the NTSB is about to have a press conference so I guess I will stay on CNN long enough to watch that. I really need to get away from the TV though. And the Internet. So I will start with the Internet. 49 bye-byes.