Family and FriendsWellbeing

A start

I didn’t think this would be a great weekend. My wife’s cousin was killed in a motorcycle accident last weekend and we planned to drive over to Orlando for the service set for Saturday (tomorrow). We were leaving work early this morning to pack, pick up the kids, and head over to my sister’s house tonight. She was letting us stay there so we wouldn’t have to foot the bill for a hotel. I…
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Politics

Yes, me worry

Who woulda thunk it? Based on some of the polls released over the last week, I’m worried the McCain/Palin strategy of name calling and mudslinging (or is that a tactic?) is starting to gain a little traction with voters in swing states like Ohio. If you believe the robo-calls blanketing the country, Obama’s first action as president will be to firebomb a few red-state capitals around the…
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Sports

Punch-line no more!

Maybe that was true months ago, but tonight added the exclamation point. I wasn’t really confident going into tonight. No Rays fan should have been. I spent four hours of my life repeating to myself: “it’s just a game… it’s just a game,” but if you put a finger on my wrist you wouldn’t need a stopwatch to know I was having trouble convincing myself. Listening to Andrew Friedman…
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Kitchen Sink

Drawing a blank

I had no reply for two things said yesterday: “I don’t know how to ride the bus.” “I didn’t have any money and I didn’t know what else to do so I put a little Crazy Glue on my cap and stuck it back in my mouth.” No, it wasn’t the same person. One person was trying so hard to rationalize his loutish behavior he was reduced to spouting absurdities, the other was financially and…
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Politics

Please pass the Xanax

Presidential debates scare me. They don’t scare me like a horror flick or clueless voters… or do they? A few small blood vessels burst (and I lose small clusters of brain cells) every time I hear an undecided voter say they don’t know enough about the candidates yet. Really? How hard do you have to work to stay ignorant during a two year presidential campaign? Have they heard of the…
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Family and Friends

Absentia

More than a year ago my mother was committed to the state hospital, three hundred miles away. She hasn’t gotten any better. The last news I heard from the staff was they were going to try stopping all her meds and start over from scratch. The options are somewhat limited because the medication that worked (for a long time) just about destroyed her kidneys. Before she was shipped off to the…
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Politics

Does your glass house come with large shutters?

Conservatives are begging McCain to hit Obama with Rezko and Ayers at the next (and final) debate. I don’t know why. Ad money does a lot of talking – talking that can’t be immediately rebutted. The question is, in a room with both candidates present, would they be as giddy talking about Liddy? From where I’m sitting, I think he’s better off running his attack ads and playing relatively…
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Politics

Canadian elections around the corner

I don’t know much about voting my mail in Canadian elections (what we would refer to in the states as voting by absentee ballot). If it applies to you, I’m sure you’d know better than I would. if I’m not mistaken the big election is next week. If you’re one of my local Canadian friends*, you’re eligible to vote, and it’s not too late to send in your ballot, take a look at this post…
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