Save Water, Drink Wine

8.2.2014

Have ya heard about the terrible drought we're having here in Cali?  Have you felt it?  Can you see it?  If you're anywhere in the whole state with the exception of at the bottom of Lake Tahoe (like some mob snitches certainly are), you answer yes to all of the above questions.  It sucks.

It sucks so bad that people are starting to firebomb neighbors that water their lawns and keep'm lush.  People are poisoning the decorative fountains in their parks so the koi die and the city shuts'm down.  People aren't going to the Dodgers games anymore because of their green outfield.  Oh wait, they're aren't going unless the Dodgers are giving away bobbleheads or backpacks or switchblades or something.

Water waste is a big fucking problem.  I shake my own head in disgust when I see it.  ... with ONE exception:

There's a back alley-like access to the place I work.  It's really a series of interconnected parking lots that go from the street a half-mile away to my office and beyond.  It's cool but for the alley-like, car park-like behavior of the mopes parking there who, not being on a street, figure there aren't any rules and drive worse than they do on, um, streets with rules.

My exception to viewing all water waste with disgust is a puddle in this back alley.  It's full every night.  It's runoff from a fucked-up sprinkler system and it's just deep enough to make a beautiful, gigantic, flower-like splash when I hit it with one of the front wheels of my Jeep.  The water sprays up and out and drenches me so much I have to run the wipers.  I get a perverse joy out of this dumb thing and can't wait to someday bring Ez along with me.

As long as it's wasted water, I may as well enjoy it, right?

Tonight - Clooney's  venerable Missio  dive, for sure.

Trivia:  Though it's open 6am - 2am, 7 days a week, this is the first visit for the TNSC.

bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!