Don Quixote de la Mancha, R-Herriman

Tilting at windmills. Utah legislators are infamous for this. We have fought many a so-called moral battle which have done nothing but cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The worst thing is that they pass these laws knowing that they are going to be taken to court and fully aware that they have very little chance of winning. Whether you agree with the law on principle or not, it is irresponsible to waste other people's money knowing you are going to lose. What is more than irresponsible, what is reprehensible, immoral and should be criminal is doing it in the first year in decades that the state has had a budget shortfall. We are asking department after department to cut back on expenses, cutting back on services to the poor, and yet we are poised to battle another futile war on abortion. Rep. Wimmer, are you and your cohorts willing to fund the defense of this law with your own money, without any taxpayer assistance? No? Well, then how can you reconcile defending it with my money, with money that has a million better uses in this time of economic downturn?

Amy

Department of Redundancy Department

It was a long flight to Boston, I even read the back of the package of peanuts. Good thing they warned me that they were produced in a facility that processes peanuts.

Jim

Sick day.

I didn't make it to class at the U today, I was having some serious vision problems. Yeah, I just couldn't see myself in class on such a beautiful day. Must have been contagious, 'cause both Lani and Jo had the same problem. Instead we went to Liberty Park and bummed around there for an hour or so. Lani said something about wishing she had her camera so we could document our day off, and guess what? I had mine on me so we had some fun with the automatic timer (see picture where I am running to get in place when the camera shot) and on making it back to the car, had some fun with the remote shutter button. All in all it was a good evening, and we just had to take advantage of it because fall is in the air, days are getting shorter and in no time it will be too cold and too dark by the time we get off work.

Our trip back east was fantastic, despite the rain. What we didn't realize was that the Baptist Church had heard of our return and it seems they weren't too thrilled about it. Even more ironic, was that it was a friend in Arizona that sent us the picture. Thanks Sir Duke, it never occured to you that it might be referring to some other Rossis, huh?