Thunder Up

The Thunder took the Western Conference Crown last night and are headed to the finals to face either the Heat or the Celtics. In all honesty I believe they just beat the three hardest teams to beat in the NBA over the past month. They started with reigning champs Mavericks, then took it to the perennially good Lakers, and knocked off the well oiled machine Spurs.

Any of those teams would have destroyed any East team that made it to the finals. The East is just weak this year. I'd really be shocked if the Thunder got into a series that went to game six, but more than likely they'll win in five or a sweep.

Negotiations are going smoothly reportedly. They plan to have everything wrapped up by tomorrow and we are supposed to vote on Sunday now. That gives me pause though, if the unthinkable happens again then there will be little time to come to an agreement and get back to work on Monday. The results of the second first strike vote came in last night and a friend called me with the results. They were good, we had enough people show up this time to sanction a strike.

Let me be clear, I'm not voting strike unless they take money away. Many share that same view, strikes suck. No one wants that to happen again. Not us, not the company, not the military, no one. No one won last time and no one will win this time. We only got what we had out of the strike, not one cent more. That's what I expect to happen again, to maintain what we have with probably less of a cost of living raise each year which was 3.75% the last three years. I expect 1% honestly, the government is broke.

More zombie style attacks have occurred lately including one in Louisiana and another one in Miami. Keep in mind this is drug fueled and so far the victims haven't turned to anything but patients in the hospital. That rules out a self sustained Zombie Apocalypse of Doom. We are safe...for now.