Budget blues...

[senoritafish]

Advise the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish - that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates.
-Lao Tzu

This was quoted for August on our Marine Region calendar. One wonders if this was meant as a barb at the legislature or the governor, since the budget is late every goddamn year, especially this year since there is a gubernatorial election (and dammit, the Republicans just have to teach Gray Davis some kind of a lesson). It really hobbles us trying to do our jobs.

I heard they finally signed a budget this weekend. We have had a spending freeze since the beginning of May. God help us if we had run out of dish soap for the wetlab during that time. Things would have gotten pretty smelly around here.