Welcome to Thursday, your antidote to Wednesday. In truth, yesterday was not, all told, such a horrible 24 hours in which to exist on this plane of reality. Mostly.
The Lightning hockeyed the shit out of that little round, flat black thing to beat the Rangers 6-5 and take a 2-1 lead in the finals. Can they continue to hockey well enough to out-hockey the other hockeyers? We'll hockey, er, see.
Tampa Bay once again has a newspaper written, published and sold on street corners by the area's homeless — the Homeless Voice has been distributing (again) for two weeks now. This is a godsend for those of us whose less bleeding-hearted friends jibe us for giving coin to panhandlers: "No, I bought something, jackass."
Famed Montgomery Burns impersonator Rick Scott is experiencing a bit of pushback from Florida hospitals. The governor wants to know how state healthcare institutions are spending taxpayer dollars; his office sent out requests for financial data, but many hospitals replied with requests for more specific criteria, or just pointed Scott to already publicly available data — basically, the bureaucratic equivalent of a middle finger. Maybe they'll let him know how they're using public funding when he lets them have some.
And finally, famed real-life version of a company owned by Montgomery Burns Duke Energy continues to try to reform its public image by funding a solar-energy research project at USF St. Pete to the tune of $1 million. Duke will presumably forgive me for assuming I'll be paying for part of this somehow.
