Today, the Los Angeles Times in a story about gay marriage noted that “the first public airing of a possibility that has been increasingly under discussion by legal experts — that the fight over the constitutionality of Proposition 8 might not be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, as many have expected. Instead the case could be brought to an end by the strict legal rules about who is allowed to pursue a dispute in Federal Court.”
It remains a mystery to me how some groups, and individuals are so interested in controlling the lives of others on such a deeply personal level. Mea culpa, my repetition, but this simply just gets to me…and I’ll let you make your own considerations as there’s so much available on this issue, by so many more informed than I.
We lost one of our fish yesterday, “Puffy,” a larger Puffer fish who was just lying on the bottom of the tank in the morning. It was a bit sad as he/she had a bit of personality. We think Puffy was stung by Blanca (my wife names all of our fish), a Lion Fish. They’ve been co-existing for a couple of years, so we like to think it was an accident.
We won’t replace Puffy, as the tank is fairly mature with other fish full grown. I like saltwater aquariums, but were I to have a choice today, I’d go back to freshwater; the fish are less expensive and it’s easier to maintain.
I’ve nothing special to do today, with the exception of lunching with a client for whom I don’t especially care. He’s a very wealthy fellow who runs a financial institution and has an ego that is beyond his core reach. It is apparently easy to become affluent, or just downright rich if one’s selling skills are exceptional or one is willing to cross certain lines. Otherwise that income level is difficult to reach, albeit certainly attainable.
This is a man who retained our firm to “enhance his visibility;” to “heighten his profile,” however, he is also a man who doesn’t know what he doesn’t know which makes our task virtually impossible. Fortunately, there’s but a few hundred bucks left in his client trust account, which I’ll no doubt return next week.
It’s a shame to lose a client in this economy, but what the hell, there are always others and times will change.
I am look forward to a quiet weekend; just movies, the pool and a position that rarely moves from prone.
