Keep on Turning

From the Department of Corrections Department comes this: It was the SHORTEST day of the year, YOU IDIOT!

And RTGFKAR adds that every year that passes is shorter than the year before because the earth's rotation is slowing down! So, the shortest day of the shortest year so far, has just zoomed by. My question is, if you walk in the opposite direction the earth is spinning, can you slow the slowing down? This is a question that needs to be answered by the Department of Physics Department.

From the Department of Clarification and Definition Department I would like to get an answer to this question: Is a Concentration Camp a place where people suffering from ADD are sent to learn how to focus?

We split into teams yesterday to tackle two chores at the same time. Both teams failed. RTGFKAR, the team of one, was sent to pick up Spawn of Rayjay at the airport while Woowoo Charly and I invaded the lair of Angry Zola. Spawn missed her flight from Pan City and Zola never showed. RTGFKAR's team went into overtime and picked up Spawn several hours later. Woowoo Chuck and I jointly said, "#*^# this!" (select the profanity of your choice) and mentally fired Angry Zola. See, the thing is, we know Panama is a process country; that is, one where the process of getting to a goal is to be enjoyed as much as achieving the goal, if not more so. In other words, "slow down, you're going too fast, you've got to make the moment last." Our goal, on this occasion was to see Doctura Anguizola at our specified appointment time of eleven AM. Zola's office had called me, in fact, earlier in the day to remind me to be there. Scroll back now to a time when the earth was spinning faster. Our first visit to Angry Zola's found her in Pan City. On our second, we waited an hour and forty five minutes beyond our appointment time and on our third, the receptionist scheduled me with the wrong Angry Zola, our doc's husband, who is a doctor of a different sort. Sheesh. This trip we checked in exactly on time - we are always on time, it's a disease - and waited for an hour. At precisely noon we uttered the above mentioned oath and fled the premises. Process my patootie! I'm finding another doctor.

Alrighty then. And in the evening, it rained. It was supposed to rain on a part of the world just beyond us, but because the earth is rotating slower, we got the downpour instead.