9:07, and it's not looking too good.  2 members and 24 guests on line over there.  I guess I was wrong about those idiots.  I'm man enough to admit it.

I can't say it's a total loss, though.  I think I might have stood by the old man himself tonight.  Well, not immediately next to him, but if that's who I thought it was, I was definately basking in his aura.  Admittedly, I don't know what he looks like, but he seemed to have the arrogant swagger working.  Standing there all small and smug, it had to have been him.   I had to leave because my eyes hurt from rolling so much at the speakers. (Folks, when you mutter incoherently, please speak up.  Some of us are trying to decipher what you're saying.  Thanks.)  I'm looking forward to going to something on the sheet the one dude passed out about MLK Day, though.    But you know something? Sherri Nealon Fanucci is really very pretty in person, IMO.  I only saw her from the shoulders up, maybe about 20-30 feet away (I was in the back of the room) but we made definately eye contact.  Yeah, she was very easy on the eyes.  Seriously.  I think she was flirting with me, too!  (Sherri, if you read this, I felt the connection, but I'm a lousy flirt.  I'd have tried to wink at you, but you were at work and I might have hurt myself trying.  As much as I'd have liked it if you came to my work and winked at me, it would be unprofessional of us both.  I'll continue this on craigslist tomorrow maybe.  Maybe under "missed connections" or something.  We gotta keep it on the down low, though, because I'm married.  Just cause I'm chained to the porch, though, it doesn't mean I can't bark at traffic, know what I'm saying? I digress...)   Anyway, I was gonna say something about wishing council patience.  We may not all like them personally (Councilwoman Nealon Fanucci excepted, of course, and I like Mr. McGoff, although not in the same way as Ms. Fanucci.  I went to school and played sports with his sons...), but they have a job to do. Listening to pointless ramblings and personal insults for 5 minutes a clip isn't on the job resume and does nothing to benefit the city as a whole.  They represent a very vocal minority.  But like I said, I was getting a migrane from the eye rolling, so I left.   Fortunately, no one bet any donuts, or I'd be broke tomorrow. 

Edited because thinking of Ms. Fanucci's sexy eyes short circuted my spelling abilities. 

His Girl Thursday wrote:

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 Can you hear me making smoochie noises at you ?

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Is that you, Sherri?  Not now, love, I'm at work.

Unrelated to this or any other thread, but why doesn't Janet Evans have an e-mail link on the Council homepage?  There has to be more than one J. Evans who'd have the @scrantonpa.gov e-mail address, so mailing to jevans @ scrantonpa.gov isn't a guarantee that it'll make it to her mailbox, is it?  The Voice of the People has limited access for the very people who elected her. Odd....

Think she'll hook me up with SNF? 

It should still be an auto-link (is that even the right phrase? You click on it, and your e-mail client opens up with the address in the TO: line.) on the main page, just like everyone else's.  Jeez, Mr. McGoff's been there a month and he's got an auto-link address.  Evans is "for the people" just like the old man is.

I gotta hand it to her, though, after the one old timer asked about the discount for seniors in regards to cable, and Gatelli said they did send a letter, Evans came over to the guy after he was done, with some sort of document and explained it a little more to him.  That was actually pretty classy.  Unlike the next speaker's "What remnants of council there is now..." comment.