Council Meeting and Gripes.

In Plainfield the spirit of the season was evident at the Council meeting. It lasted less than 120 minutes. Obviously it was fairly routine. Among items to be introduced at the January meting will be a temporary budget for the first quarter of 2012 based on 26.25% of total spending for the calender year 2011. That would be covered by the 2011 fiscal year budget from Jan. through June plus the interim 6 month budget from July through December. There will be some adjustments for potential costs over the 1/4th previous year for snow removal. There was talk that the budgeted period may be only for one or two months depending on the soon expected arrival of the proposed 2012 budget for Council's action.

If only things were similar in DC where this time the House Republicans are posturing by rejecting the temporary extension of the payroll tax reduction , Perhaps Charles De Gaulle was right when he said " I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

The are certain givens in life; among them are (1) service people either never show at the appointed time or if given a 6 hour window will arrive at hour 5:59. (2) Computers whether desktops, laptops, smart? telephones. automobiles etc will always develop a glitch that can't be fixed. In my car I get false reports on emissions or other functioning units like a DCS fault. Reprogramming it doesn't work and the solution of replacing means losing an arm but keeping the leg.