Things that irk you......

Step siblings who steal your parent's estate.

That's what has me irked today.

 

Damn. How much was at stake?

 

Making the dreadful mistake of watching Sports Center this morning.
David Lloyd is on with some lady that screams incessantly. At everything.
Anyway, Lloyd is doing the hilight of the kid from Vermont that scored last night. This lady lets out a "Awwwww".....like it was a tik-tok of a giggling baby or a newborn kitten.
The more I think about it, the more and more Gee's black coffee, sports page and total silence morning routine sounds better and better all the time.

 

SportsCenter is on a continual decline. Only brainlets still watch that show.

 

$1? $100? $10,000? How much would have to be at stake for it to matter?

I'm stunned at how quickly people put aside rational behavior and a basic sense of fairness with any bit of money at stake.

 

So... what was the net worth you lost in this shakedown from your step siblings?

 

As obvious as this may sound, it bears mentioning today: Spring Forward.

 

There is nothing like a death in the family to bring out the worst in people. I've seen people clean out the dead woman's jewelry box. I've seen families devolve into decades long grudges over a crappy piece of furniture. People just lose their minds over little or nothing. I can't imagine how bad it gets when they are fighting over an estate with significant financial value.

 

That's pretty much me. NPR Morning Edition, coffee, the morning web crawl, and watching the birds at the feeder. I usually get up an hour or two before my wife, so it's my daily quiet time.

Then I come in here and dump a dozen tweets I found interesting, lol.