A corn flake sold for $1,350.00 recently on Ebay. Why the high price? The corn flake was in the shape of the state of Illinois.

Why would anyone pay that much money for a corn flake in the shape of Illinois? Do they think that some collector will pay even more for the flake or doing plan to put it on display and charge admission?

It would take someone who is flaky to buy a corn flake for that much money and someone even flakier to pay to see it. As P.T. Barnum always said “there is a sucker born every minute.”

Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit and Detroits most famous Irishman, is going to jail for perjury. A while back, he fired two Detroit police officers who were investigating his sexual activities.

The police officers sued the city, but at the trial Kwame denied the he was sexually involved with one of his staffers. Later, the local paper received copies of steamy emails that the two had sent to each other. These, of course, contradicted his previous sworn testimony. So, Kwame is going on trial.

Michigan has enough economic problems. It does not need to be portrayed as a place of graft and corruption.

I stopped at the local Micky Ds for a breakfast burrito this morning but it was closed. The menu board was vacant and there was no one in the drive thru. I guess they went out of business.

Earlier in the week, the adjoining gas station closed but with the gas prices I am not surprised. The gas station was always high priced so that closing was no surprise. Micky Ds was always busy in the morning and at lunch time so I don’t understand why they closed.

I guess I will have to find a different Micky Ds if I want a breakfast burrito.

It snowed last night dumping about 6 inches on us.  This occurred at a time when all of the previous snow had melted and spring was on its way.

But, this is Michigan and this is what we call a late winter snow storm.  So, we fired up the old snow blower once again and attacked the driveway.  Most of the snow will probably melt by tomorrow so it shouldn’t be too bad.

This should be the last snow of the season.  Everybody is ready for spring.

There is a stray cat that lives in the parking ramp where I park. He is fed by the people here at work. And judging from his size, he eats well.

Over in a dark corner is his little towel lined cardboard box that he sleeps in. And he has a food and water bowl.

He is called Wilson because most of the time all you can see of him is his eyes peering over the edge of the box.

If I am understanding things correctly, it is against the law for the average citizen to own a handgun in Washington D.C. . Now, I am not talking about carrying a concealed gun, I am talking about having a handgun in your own home.

Of course, those with diplomatic immunity and law enforcement agents are allowed to carry handguns. And citizens are allowed to own rifles and shot guns, but not hand guns. As one protester pointed out, “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”

With one of the highest crime rates of any city in the US, I guess only criminals have handguns.

I think we have a new ? store on main street. It is in the same location as the old ? store. And it appears to be following the same business plan as the old ? store.

As near as I can tell, they seem to be selling windows and siding but, I can’t be sure. Like the old ? store, they do not have a sign up other that open and closed. Plus, they don’t seem to be open on Saturdays but maybe they haven’t opened yet.

Only time will tell.

The office smells terrible today.  Yesterday was St. Patricks Day so to celebrate, the office cooked up corned beef and cabbage.  I don’t know which smells worse, the cooked cabbage or the cooked cabbage eaters.

If you thought that Y2K was going to be the end of civilization as we know it, then you will be happy to know that there is another computer glitch. It seems that in 2038, the clocks on UNIX based servers will reset to January 1, 1900. So, this gives us less than 30 years to fix the bug.

I wonder if we should start stock piling food and water now or wait another 25 years?

I was reading an article about female serial killers. According to the article, women have to kill twice as many people as men, in order to be recognized. And, many female serial killers go unrecognized because they simple don’t kill enough people to strike terror into the hearts of the populous as a whole.

With the exception of Lizzy Borden, most female serial killers are in the medical profession and use either medications or suffocation on their victims. And because of this, most of these deaths are presumed to be normal or natural. Therefore, the serial killer goes unrecognized.

It is people like the BTK killer or the Unibomber that get all of the attention.

So, once again, it is the women who never get the recognition that they deserve.