Cost of Living allowance . . .
An' effen ya doan sit on them there raisins, such t'ings doan come up, weeLowan bunny . . .
Cost of Living Adjustment's always been what I thought. It's all just code for raise, of course. Not that I deserve one, obviously, but some people make a career out of this and support families with the income. (What cracks me up is how people up here bash California, and then they go ahead and blunder into pretty much every bad public policy decision California has made in the past few decades, then blame immigration for this place becoming more like California -- except for the weather, of course. No amount of placing demands on the state gov't and then revoking their ability to fund new projects will change the weather. Not so funny when you consider that hundreds or perhaps thousands of people will probably die in their cars on the Alaska Way viaduct someday just like they did in Oakland in 1989 because earthquake retrofitting of multi-level highways isn't viewed as a necessity, even if that highway sits right on top of a major fault. Or that class sizes will continue to rise and the quality of public education continue to drop as caps are placed on the taxes that fund education. Or that this city with no sun will nonetheless grow smoggier and smoggier until some viable form of mass transit is introduced.)
Excuse me. Whew. It's just so frustrating, since anybody with just a little bit of perspective can see it all coming, including many fine people here.
lord patio - i agree with you!
Hm. Didn't know I'd been knighted, let alone lorded...
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
His royal dogginess. Arff.
Really, I'm so surprised. I didn't even prepare a speech. Let's see, I'd like to thank all the people I stabbed in the back to get here. And if the guys back home are watching -- "Eat THIS, you plebeian turds!"
Well, dogs DO eat turds.... raisins, anyone?
I have some raisins d'etre.....
We put you there - we can take you away.....
Oh. See, I didn't understand that part.
ummmmmmm......
Free alfalfa for everyone!
Oooo, he looks so cute with his tail between his legs.
LOL....(puts dog-catching net back in bunny secret pocket....)
Lord Patio.
That just sounds so 1960's.
Who was that spoken word jazz musician? Lord somethingorother.
hmmmmmmmmmm
The old jazz bassist, Major Holly used to sort of grunt and groan as he played. No words, he was just into the music.
Pretty smeggy hereabouts....
It been beautiful around here and now it is to go below freezing for a couple of nights - woe be it to the apricot and peach blooms. I guess that's pretty smegging (or would that be smeggy?)!
:wink: 
