My my my.
It has been quite a while since I decided to put anything in this spot, and I sincerely apologize to those of you who throng eagerly to your computers each day in order to drink at the fountain of wisdom that is this blog.
I must particularly apologize to those of you who were waiting for the second installment of the great American novel. Maybe later.
I’m technically in training this week, but needed to actually get some work done today, so I cut class and stayed home. Makes a lot of sense, huh? Actually, it does. I can get more work done from home than I can at the office.
Not that I’ve actually DONE that today. I’ve spent most of the day watching election analysis, reading newspapers online, and doing laundry….although I did check my email.
In order to tick my mother off, I must now reveal that I didn’t vote yesterday. This does not mean that I don’t get to whine about politicians. To the contrary, it means that I take my politics seriously enough to realize that I’m so independent that I border on being an anarchist. I didn’t care who won yesterday. Seriously. I fully expect the outgoing bunch of incompetent crooks to be replaced with a new bunch of incompetent crooks who color their states with a different color.
I could, of course, have voted Libertarian; but I’ve been told by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, my mom, etc., that a vote for a Libertarian is a wasted vote. Since I don’t like to be wasteful…
Anyway, what’s seriously going to change? Well, Rumsfeld finally got the boot. It took W getting kicked in the gut to figure it out, but it’s a start. I have a military friend who is currently quietly celebrating.
Bill Clinton probably had the best line yesterday. “Republicans will have you believe that Democrats will tax you into the poor house and that you’ll meet a terrorist around every corner and trip over an illegal immigrant on the way there.”
That’s not too far off base. How long will it be before someone says, “Man, the Democrats have only been in power for a week and they’ve already gotten us stuck in an unwinable war?”
Changing subjects abruptly, it’s a beautiful day in Duluth right now. The sun is out, there’s a great breeze blowing, temperature is hovering right around 60. If there was a football game going on in my back yard, I’d be in heaven. As it is, there’s a bunch of leaves that need to be raked in my back yard and the football game isn’t until Saturday. In Greenville. Fortunately, it’s the last one (of the regular season), and I won’t be obligated to go to any more after it.
I still MIGHT. I just won’t be obligated.
Last week was the fourth time this season that I had to leave very early and got home very late because of games. I’ve had to drive to Chapel Hill, NC (U. of North Carolina), Boone, NC (Appalachian State U.), Myrtle Beach, SC (Coast Carolina U.) and Elon, NC (Elon College). Elon was the easiest – I got home at around midnight. App State was around 2 am. UNC and CCU were both close to 6 am – and I had to play at church on the Sundays after each of those games. Color me sick of football season.
Today I discovered a plethora of little tiny ants trooping around on my kitchen counters. I have no idea where they came from or what they’re after, but I cleaned the living crap out of the counters and they’re still not gone. Anybody got any advice on that one? I put out a couple of ant traps, but they seem to have done nothing.
Last night, I made Banana bread. I’m told it was good – I haven’t actually had any yet. I’m assuming that it and the ants are not related.
A couple of months ago, I got a new self-cleaning litterbox for my cats. It works wonderfully. Problem is that they’re both scared of it. Boo (the female) will use it if I pick her up and put her in it. Bo (the male – and the one more likely to use anything that has litter in it) will have nothing to do with it. Sigh.
And that’s all for now. Hope everybody likes the new look of the blog.
TWD