My back is toast. It is a combination of gall bladder - which does make the back hurt like heck some times - and arthritis in my ribcage. I forgot a day's magic pill, and it takes three days to get over the damage it does when I skip a single pill.

So I have a design job, a website design that had to be run off quick. It is for a company in southern California. I decided to knock it out and get 'er done.

I just emailed three packets of attachments, about five screens each of web pages.

Now I will wait for the changes, and they will come on Monday.

I got so much pain here that I had to feed the cats on the kitchen table. Can't bend over. I managed to get Bunjii's food and water down to where he lives under the baker's rack and could hardly stand up.

The cats are worried.

I saw this on the news and on BBC.com...
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Irish budget airline Ryanair has said it is considering charging passengers for using the toilet while flying.

Chief executive Michael O'Leary told the BBC that the Dublin-based carrier was looking at maybe installing a "coin slot on the toilet door".
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If they tried that on some Irishmen I know, they would pee right on the damn airplane floor! Such unmitigated gall! That is illegal in the USA. Every public accommodation must have a bathroom facility for the use of patrons. That's a federal law, and is also enforced by most states.

What's next? "Sir, you'll have to pay extra for the seat belt." "And the exit charge on this flight will be five dollars. Pay as you leave the airplane. No checks or plastic."

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Barry Bonds is going to trial soon. I wish they would just let it go and get on with life and baseball. The commissioner should state a rule: If anyone gets tested (and every ballplayer is going to be tested every year, some twice) positive for steroids or HGH hormones, they are out of baseball for life. Go sit in the park with Pete Rose. You can't even buy a ticket to a game.

That's it. No second chances.

Then forgive and forget the past. Let the players play and suffer the consequences when they are eligible for the Hall of Fame votes.

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Same goes for Bush, Cheney and all their cohorts. So they lied, cheated and swindled the US public about WMDs and whatnot. They are retired now, and they don't need to be prosecuted. History will take care of that.

Move on, America.

I want to see forward looking progress, not backward-looking punishments. We've got to get the country working again. Ohio has 9 percent unemployment. California hit ten percent. WTF? Where are the priorities? Let's get going and fix the working public's problems.

And Citibank can go to hell so far as I'm concerned. I have absolutely no sympathy for the scoundrels in banking that got us into this mess.

I say break up the big banks. Citi, B of A, Wells Fargo, all of them. AIG, an insurance company, has sucked up the lion's share of the TARP money and it is crying for more. Break them up!

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I am doomed to stay awake, I guess. So I made a half pot of coffee and it is only 3:30 a.m.

I should have listened to Mrs.Meyers in the seventh grade when she told my class that "what you eat will be what kills you."

Boy was she right! Now I am going to eat this on Saturday (HEY! It is Saturday already!)

Spinach salad with sliced mushrooms, water chestnuts and a sliced hard-boiled egg with a little onion. No cheese. Sesame oil and vinegar on the salad.

That's all I will eat other than some Focaccio bread today. Dipped in olive oil and Balsamic vinegar. Maybe a couple of bananas.

I can't believe my effing back and ribs. I know there are people out there freezing, starving and laying in ditches with severe frostbite, but I would gladly switch places with them if this backache went away.

Why am I complaining? I have five cats to take care of me, to comfort me when I moan, to ....

Sure.