Venus Day (Friday) arrives once again. Reminder to self: one day I'll have to figure out how the name got so mangled in the translation from Latin to English.

Tried like heck to find something newsworthy to comment on today, but came up short. The energy crisis is sadly lacking from the headlines, best I could find is that the state law enforcement agencies are having a tough time enforcing "lights-out" restrictions. No big surprise as was anything else in the headlines today. The Palestinians are still in conflict, as are the Macedonians. Yawn. It's the same Serbs vs. Croats thing but shifted very slightly over ten years to involve even more innocent parties. The population of California has shifted towards minorities. We've seen that coming for 8 years. Yawn. Tax relief is showing pathetic but growing support. Not enough yet to ever do anything about it. Are you asleep yet?