HAPPY PASSOVER !!

I'm in the Petes for high-holiday celebrations, principally Passover, but since we're a mixed religious household, a little of Easter too.

Last night, while I was watching Law & Order, I finished modeling Rick's masque. It's looking pretty cool now, in a very traditional, baroque, costume-ball sort of way. I hope he likes it. I'm going to buy thin fabric to cover it, in dark red and black, probably a pvc-type cloth, in order to give it shine without resorting to varnishing it. That would make it ridiculously heavy, and already, the nose gives it a lot of frontal weight. I put a bit of padding in the bridge of its nose, as the weight might irritate the real nose on which it is balanced. Anyway, it's looking pretty snappy.

In a less-than-traditional celebration of the first full day of Passover, I'm going to buy a glue gun. *laugh* Since the stores are open today, unlike tomorrow, it will give me a chance to cover my own masque in the fabrics that I've already bought.

In other news, the OPSEU strike is still progressing at a pace - the government still refuses to return to the bargaining table, which means the front-line public service remains in front lines on the sidewalks. The spirit remains high, even though by all accounts, the strike will continue for a long, long time. The general feeling is that no one is going to attempt to bring them back inside until Ernie Eves actually steps up to take over from Harris, mid-April. How nice. That way, Eves can look like a hero and Tsubouchi will take the fall. The government continues to pretend that this strike makes little difference in the grand scheme of things, but in the long run, that won't end up the case. Water will go untested, foods will go uninspected, wildlife will go unprotected, the courts will be backed up, among many other things. So, sure, the goverment saves money by not paying the salaries of 30,000 people, but it loses money in a much more long-term, perhaps less visible, or sexy sort of way. It's a situation that sucks. For everyone.