The former Grand Rapids City Clerk is suing the city for wrongful dismissal.  She claims she was fired because of racial discrimination.  The City said that she was incompetent.

Her original suit was for $1,000,000,000.00.  But then she realized that she had made a mistake and meant to sue for only $1,000,000.00.

I think that the city is correct in their assessment of her abilities.

Merry Christmas!!

Well, I just discovered that Crock-pots now have carrying cases.  That is right,  when you finish slow cooking your favorite dish, you can transport it in its very own insulated case.  And we now have one.

I wonder how I ever lived with out it?

Holidays in the office seem to be getting more and more complex with each passing year.  While Thanksgiving and such are no big deal, Christmas now seems to be a major stumbling block.

In past, we could have a Christmas luncheon, but not any more.  First, there are the Vegans who not only want a special menu for them, they are also offended by the other menu items.  And while the Hindus don’t agree with the holiday, they are contractors and will go along with it regardless of their beliefs.

But, we also have those who have converted to Buddhism.  And even though they were raised Catholic, they find this holiday celebration to be offensive and therefore, will not participate.

Thankfully, I am not on the planning committee.

Every time that I buy a new car, it comes with options that I have never had before on a car.  And, every time that I discover these new options, I come to realize that I can’t live with out them.

At the funeral of my late wife, I was amazed to see people that I have not seen in 40 years.  Now, I am not talking about friends of the family, I am talking people that I personally knew and have not seen in 40 years.  And, I have not heard from them since the funeral.

I find their sudden reappearance to be interesting.  But then again, funerals bring out a lot of strange people.

While Christmas shopping for pajamas for my wife, I noticed that several of them came with “matching eye masks”.  Wow, matching eye masks are really important.  I mean, I would hate to wake up next to a woman whose eye mask didn’t match her pajamas.

I wonder if you can get matching handcuffs?

Over the years, my daily travels to Lansing have presented me with a number of interesting incidents.  Recently, I noted that there was a plastic truck bed storage box lying in the median.  Since this was the type of box that sits behind the cab and spans the width of the truck, I was surprised that the owner had not noticed that it was missing.

Well, the other night as I was returning home, I noticed that a pickup truck had stopped along side of the box and that 2 men were inspecting it.  I guess that they decided that it was junk as it was still there the next night when I went past.

Every year at Christmas time, we get the usually fair of Christmas music.  This fair includes songs that are older than I am.  And I can tolerate that for a few weeks.

But what really drives me crazy about Christmas music are the songs sung by children that are off key.  Apparently, some people find these songs to be “cute”.  I find them to be horrible.  But, in a week, they will be done for this year.

The media is reporting that California is experiencing the worst drought in 1200 years.  So, if my calculations are correct, the last time that California had a drought this bad was around 800 AD.

I wonder if CNN was there to experience it first hand?