So, today we tried something new...

Went to the play-time at, um, Wagner park in Battery Park - by the river, y'know? It was great. Lots of toys, outdoors, lots of kids, nice.

So Thursday I'll try their art program with Ana.

And I got some bras from Jenn, which is good, I had *one* that wasn't completely falling apart.

And tomorrow I am going to go *early* to the toddler program at the museum to talk to the coordinator. *nodnodnod*

I'm so silly, I'm stealing Ana-words left and right - wa-wap, ticken, yaygurt.... That sort of talk is addictive.

Some thoughts....

Now, I've been hearing a lot about two big things regarding the recent little storm. The first, neatly summarized here, involves the mistakes made which turned this problem into a much bigger problem. Along with that, I often hear "well, what would you have done differently?"

Hah. No. It's not my job to do disaster planning. My taxes (if I paid taxes) pay some theoretically intelligent people to do that for me, people who know what they're doing. And yet, even though I'm not one of those people, I can still think of many clear ways they dropped the ball, starting with the evacuation. If they have school busses now to get people out, why didn't they send the busses in *before* to take the people out who didn't have cars? One would really have thought that was basic....

The second has to do with certain countries trying to help, and being refused.

I remember the first thing I ever really learned about North Korea. There was a famine, a big one, and the South Koreans were offering to send food and aid - but the government of North Korea refused it. And you know, I understood that? I understood it in my mind, I mean, I still thought it was pretty stupid - if they'd accepted aid, they would've been saying they need help, which might've meant admitting that they'd screwed up, and they just couldn't do that.

Yeah.

I'm well beyond being sad for these people in any personal way, but I sure am full of my righteous anger. It's so much so that I can't even think on it much - I'm only paying as much attention as is strictly necessary.