Interesting... the girl that I wrote about yesterday that didn't have a fractured neck... had a dislocation without a fracture. When her head was in the neutral position, it looked OK, but they did x-rays with her neck flexed and then extended and they showed the problem. No bone fractured, but tendons and ligaments ripped apart.

The damnedest things happen sometimes. Anyway, she's doing fine.

I got shorted on my paycheck. My supervisor left out twelve hours some way or another. Luckily, she talked payroll into cutting a check, but it won't be until Monday.

I'm more than a little pissed about that. Like most people, we send out checks, anticipating that money will be in the account when the checks get where they're going.

Luckily, the postal service, being what it is... should be no problem.

Not a really busy night, but legs sore and feet hurt again. Damned old hard floors. I need soft carpet to walk on, a soft chair to sit in, a nice soft woman (already got one, thanx...!), a soft, cushy job that pays me scads of money...

I really wonder... all of the talk about the Middleton CO deal... 15 dead people. While recently in New Orleans, 22 older women died in a bus wreck. Why is there no outcry about ill-equipped busses? No seat belts. In any busses. Even school busses... especially school busses. Why not?

Kids in school busses wearing seat belts. They would be safer, and much more controllable. Devices on the seats so that if there's a kid in the seat, and the belt isn't buckled, the bus won't go. Too expensive? Nothing is too expensive to keep our kids safe... right? Isn't that what we're hearing?

Don't worry about grandma, though.

Does the bussing industry have some legislative pull? Or do people just not care... after all, there are still quite a few people driving around without seat belts, even though it's illegal to do so in most states. And, in most states, at least in Kansas, it's illegal to have an unrestrained child under 16 in your vehicle when it's moving. But it's OK to put 70 unrestrained (in more ways than one) kids on a bus and go anywhere you want to.

Does this make sense somewhere and I just can't see it?

O'yeah, the bus driver in N.O. had traces of marijuana in his blood or urine tests. Which probably surprises nobody in Louisiana at all... but there is no evidence that he was in any way impaired. After all, MJ can show up weeks after using it, I've been told.

And, from the pictures that I've seen of that wreck, seat belts might not've saved many of those twenty-two... the bus was mangled. But my point was... no big public outcry for grandmas. Kids, now, different story. Very different.

O'well. Someday I'll figger the damned world out, and I'll let you know.

Then I'll try to figger out the people in it.

But... right now, I'm going to bed.