I don't like Mondays.

Every once in a while, work requires that I come in extra early. Usually it's a Monday. I don't tend to function at my best on those days.

Father's Day.

In the back of my mind, I was thinking, all right father's day. This should be some sort of break for a young and often tired daddy. But I guess I forgot that my kids are really too young to get the concept. The older one is old enough to mimic the words, "Happy Father's Day", but never having used the word, "Father" before, she really had no idea what she was saying.

So really, for most of the day, father's day was just like any other day, and instead of celebrating the father's day concept, I just got to do the fatherly things I do every day and mull over the fact it really was just like any other day. And I hoped that some day the little tykes would actually appreciate all the things I did for them. Feeding, burping, playing. Whatever. It never stops. And Wifey did get me some presents from the kid, so that was cool.

But I did manage to get to 11:30 at night without having to change a poo diaper. As I was doing one last diaper change, I said to Wifey, "I'm invoking my father's day privilege. If this is a poo diaper, it's all yours." It wasn't.

But an hour or so later, both babies had pooed and let us know about it. Officially, my father's day privilege had expired, but kind Wifey tried to take care of it herself. But really, one of these was a code red emergency that demanded a two am bath (with hair wash) because it was just everywhere. A fire hose would have been nice. I had to get up for that one.

So maybe it wasn't just like every other day.

Consumer protection Department

On some level this makes sense to me. Wall Street has the Treasury. The rest of big business has commerce. The ag industry has a department. The defense industry has theirs. And even organized labor has a department looking out for them. Consumers make up a huge part of the system, but they don't have a voice at the table. No wonder they usually get screwed. And these days it seems to take a Ph.D. just to choose the right insurance options, let alone figuring out how to invest for your future (and your kids) without being completely worked over by the rest of these groups that do have a voice in government.

I'm not completely sold on it, but I do think it's worth looking at.

So jealous.

Last night a friend's daughter came over to play with our kid for a while. She was on her first day of summer vacation. I miss the days when I had something like that to look forward to.

GM, meh.

I'm feeling a little ambivalent about GM going down the tubes. I feel sorry for all the workers. I feel somewhat bad that one of the biggest names in American industry is now a failure. But GM hasn't really been a model company either. Workers got screwed time and time again. Pensions disappeared, healthcare disappeared. In some cases they really oversold what they could deliver and lots and lots of people are going to be paying for it. GM has also done its part in destroying the environment. Time and time again its faught tougher fuel standards so it could continue to make a quick buck.

They've had chances. They had an electric car that they put into storage despite strong demand. There's a documentary on it that wasn't narrated by Michael Moore.

So we've thrown billions at it and it hasn't really solved anything. I hope the company can do better in its next incarnation.

Hoping Obama is wrong.

I've finally found something where I strongly disagree with the President. He's calling for the Lakers in 6. Maybe he's right, but I'm really hoping it's the Magic instead. Just about everyone on the Lakers whines too much.