Gobble Gobble
Happy thanksgiving from Santa Barbara! This year, me, the parents, clementine and Jack are spending the long weekend at the four seasons and having an eloise style thanksgiving and eat at a yummy buffet and hang by the beach. Delicious! Here are 2 pictures from today. 
and another awesome text from timmy, who seems to have made it onto my blog rather a lot in recent days:
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evans new tat
Evan got a new tattoo:
things may come to those who wait, but
only the things left by those who hustle
I kind of want to put that on a t-shirt.
Also, if you’re going to comment on how he needs to eat something, I already told him.
This is what I remember from IV Form. (that’s 10th grade for you non- ecfs people)
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file under "things you should be thankful for"
Mike Daly has your back. Thats right, yours, not mine. (Not only mine.)
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I can’t believe this was almost a year ago. The other day, I found the CD Dave made me, he sent it a few days after we finished in the studio. It was just some demos of stuff he’d been working on, including Reactor, one of the songs we recorded, I’ve been listening to it a lot. 2008 was mostly a crappy year, full of crappy things but this week was basically perfect.
I am so excited for the Brew to head out to Cali. I can’t wait to see those guys again. I’m starting the countdown today.
Jen C’s boyfriend’s sister’s Mac add. I fully back the is ad. The “top of the line” PC dude is the guy who voices Brock Samson (AKA The Swedish Murder Machine) in Venture Brothers.
Britisher brunch with Jan and linneman.
Miss you too.
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California Explores Reversion to "territorial status"
You don’t need to know who Tom is, or who the Abyss is in real life to appreciate the horrors that are revealed in this blog.
Hi Tom-
You might remember that The Abyss was a little skeptical about the Governator’s claims of solving Cali’s budget crisis. And maybe you recall that the state issued IOUs instead of actual payment to many of its (now mostly bankrupt) vendors. Well, it turns out that nagging little issue of the state essentially heading for a total shutdown seems to have re-emerged even quicker that many anticipated.»
“California’s finances have been so bad that the governor’s finance director, Mike Genest, told a budget forum in Washington last week that back in February he had combed through the U.S. Constitution to research whether California could legally declare bankruptcy — or revert to some kind of territorial status. (Neither was realistic, he determined.”
Seems bad, sure. But if we just keep hiking tuition on all the kids who are the state’s future it should all work out fine. That’s if there aren’t any university riots (which The Abyss says is a lock for 2010).»
Fears for the Future of the University of California
The University of California system has long been one of the gems of American education — a first-rate research university that was one of the most affordable in the country. But it’s future is uncertain, Tamar Lewin reports.
On Thursday, the university’s Board of Regents voted to raise fees for undergraduates — equivalent to tuition — by 32 percent. That means students will be paying more than $10,000 a year, about three times as much as they did a decade ago.
Students staged demonstrations to protest the tuition increase. But for the faculty, and for many in the state who are concerned about education, the larger issue is the quality of the university and its reputation in the wake of an $813 million budget cut.
And that seems bad, too, Tom. But the good news is that Cali remains the nation’s trend-setting state, by remaining one of the country’s frontrunners in foreclosures, bankruptcy and unemployment.»
California unemployment rate hits
12.5 percent
SAN FRANCISCO - California’s unemployment rate rose to 12.5 percent in October to set another modern record.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says California was one of 29 states reporting unemployment rate increases. Only three states - Michigan, Nevada and Rhode Island - had higher rates than California last month.
The rate is just slightly higher than September, when officials reported a jobless rate of 12.2 percent. It was 8 percent a year ago.
The national unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in October.
Anyhoo, Tom, it all seems good for 2010. Thank God for the stimulus, the bankster bailouts, the cash for clunkers, houses, gold, etc. and most of all the war in Afghanistan. Where would the world be without the fine work of the .gov?
Big California Dreamin’ Hugs,
The Abyss
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