Fog again this Thursday morning on California’s north coast as we get ready to finish this quick-nothing work week.
Middle-of-the-night health problems has caused a shit-feeling early, and the rest of the particular day I hope is better.
We’ll see.

A lot of shit is happening all over the world, but a most of it doesn’t hit close to home, or if it does, the effect in in-direct, or on the fringe.

Yesterday, our little local area became special. The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed that since July four Humboldt County residents have become ill with genetically linked E. coli infections — DHHS Public Health Nurse Eric Gordon: “The state genetically linked all four of these cases,” Gordon said. “They determined that the cases were caused by a very specific strain of E. coli that hadn’t been seen anywhere else in California. This means the same organism was causing illness in all four of these people from Humboldt County…”
Well, just another asshole-thingy to bother me.

And there was this (via CNN):

Southern California residents flooded 911 centers Wednesday night with calls about a mysterious, fast-moving streak of light in the sky.
Was it a meteor, they wondered?
The answer, according to meteorologists, is maybe.
…
Matthew Isaacs, from Mission Viejo, said he was driving when he saw the flash of light.
“I saw this big, greenish flash like, light up the sky. It was headed pretty sideways from like, east to west. I thought, ‘Is that a firework?’ And then I realized, that couldn’t be that big. It’s just in the middle of nowhere in a totally dark area where there’s no houses or anything where anyone would shoot fireworks. I thought, ‘Man, it must have been a meteor,'” Isaacs told KCBS.
The light most likely came from the South Taurids meteor showers.

Then couple that incident with this:

NASA has revealed new research on the Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded over Russia in February, and the findings aren’t good: not only does it look like the astronomic models about the number of similar-sized things reaching Earth are wrong, but also the damage they can do is much greater than expected.
“If you look at the number of impacts detected by US government sensors over the past few decades you find the impact rate of kiloton-class objects is greater than would be indicated by the telescopic surveys,” said Bill Cooke, meteoroid environment office lead at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at a press conference on Wednesday.
“Over the past few decades we’ve seen an impact rate about seven times greater than the current state of the telescopic surveys would indicate.”

Now, that’s just great!

And now to a fiscal subject even more bothersome:

More than a million Americans will lose unemployment insurance at the end of the year unless Congress takes action, according to a worker advocacy group.
The National Employment Law Project said Wednesday that the 1.3 million Americans currently receiving long-term unemployment insurance will abruptly lose federal benefits, which kick in once state aid runs out, between Christmas and the new year.
In the ensuing months, another 850,000 jobless workers will run out of state benefits and not receive an extension.
“Congress cannot conscionably ignore or dismiss the economic realities facing far too many unemployed workers and their families,” NELP director Christine Owens said in a press release.

Congress with a conscious? You’ve got to be shitting me.

And US citizens know the shitting me part:

Anti-incumbent sentiment aimed at Congress is still running as high as it was in the middle of the government shutdown last month, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll..
According to the new poll, only 22 percent of Americans think the member of Congress from their district deserves reelection, while 48 percent do not. Another 31 percent said they weren’t sure.

A third aren’t sure? Where have they been the last couple of years?
From the LA Times early last month:

Americans currently have a higher opinion of witches (46/32), jury duty (73/18) and hemorrhoids (53/31) than Congress.
Republicans seem much more accepting of Congress over hemorrhoids compared to other voters — 41 percent favored Congress more than the diseases, as opposed to only 25 percent of Democrats and 27 percent of Independents.
Even government institutions like the DMV and the IRS are seen as more favorable than Congress currently, at 58/24 and 42/33 respectively.
Almost twice as many Republicans still support Congress over the IRS (48/25), while only 23 percent of Democrats do (23/59).
Half of registered voters have a higher opinion of Congress than of Anthony Weiner right now (50/23).
In fact, public figures are some of the only people that registered voters dislike more than the legislature.
Americans thought higher of Congress when asked about Vladimir Putin (49/28), Charles Manson (56/18), Honey Boo Boo (42/33) and Miley Cyrus (36/31) — with “twerking” also four points below Congress at 37/33.

As the sun wants to rise from the east, the bullshit and bothersome troubles are mounting in the dark. At least, it’s now only hours til the weekend.
And that doesn’t bother.