Monty Python "couldn't write" a Palin scenario

Either way

I am very excited that the election is so very close. In part it is my usual, "I can not wait to stop hearing about it." It hit me today how strange it is that the headlines are touting the high campaign spending totals and we are in the midst of an economic free-fall. Surely some those campaign dollars are helping some folks out. Right?

What I am excited about mostly is the possibility that hope may be close. I am supporting Obama without reservation next week. While I don't think he will fix everything, I think he will instill some hope in a generation or two that have honestly NEVER known a time they trusted their government. I read that is the easiest way to tell when the Baby boomer generation ended was asking the question, "do you remember when you trusted your government?"

For the first time it feels as if we who answered that question with"no" might be able to say "yes" at last. I have found myself enthusiastic about it even, but reluctant to try and sway others. Even discussing it with members of my family that vote Republican without fail makes me tense. I am unable to maintain a rational perspective when faced with the sort of blind following the McCain ticket seems to have. Every argument from the right seems not so much to contain actual ideas of fixing the problem but accusations on how Obama can't do it. It is so reliable, it has become as annoying as noticing when someone consistently says "um or "like" when they are speaking. It rapidly is all you hear.

Then there's Palin. I am astonished how she has not become an out and out deal breaker for even the most devote Republicans. To me there seems to be a difference between conservative and Palin. She is in favor of BANNING BOOKS!! How is that in anyway close to the Republican "less government" some of my family speaks of. If McCain were not such the elderly statesman, this might seem as non-issue, but he would become our oldest president should he be elected. There is every possibility he could not survive a term in office, making Palin our new president. Librarians and state troopers everywhere should shudder at that prospect.

More than anything, I hope that we seen record turn outs next week. It is embarrassing how few voters take advantage of the option. Next week, I will be putting my country first and voting Obama.

Thank you Daily Show!

Funny 'cause it's probably true

One heartattack away from reality

OHIO!!

Awesome!

"What kind of training?"

I am happy to report that I am home at last in Chicago. It's not that I don't enjoy the road, I do. I think it was the fact that when I left Chicago on August 23rd for a Caldera job, I thought I was returning on Sept 9th. Then I got the call for a PA job in LA that took me there from Sept 10th through Sept 27th. The return to Chicago on the 27th got all sorts of weird when I suddenly became a truck driver to Colorado Springs for the commercial I was working on. It looked a tad grim I would make it back when I was expecting. That was till Max (travel coordinator) improvised and sent me home out of Albuquerque. Yet you know that part of the story.

Shortly after getting to LA, I agreed to stay on for the Colorado portion on the commercial. I bought another Frontier flight from Chicago, Sept 29th through Oct 5th. The majority of that time was spent down in Colorado Springs on the Ft Carson Army base. It was an Army commercial, in case I forgot to mention it. That was the first time I had worked on a commercial where the background did not drive me crazy. Well that is when they were actually from the Army. When we were in LA and we had the standard LA background, I wanted to kill them all. Seriously, there is not a more useless group anywhere on set. The ARE cattle. I was grateful for the chance to make some extra cash by doing background, but it was difficult for company those days.

I had a great day with Mom when I was done in the Springs. We had Lucile's and St. Mark's. Mom registered to vote which was very exciting since Colorado is apparently a swing state for the first time in years. We went shopping and later had soup with the whole family. Adam and Jen came by with their brood. Sydney is getting cuter by the day. Judge for yourself below. Lincoln is still just a one trick pony. He sleeps.

I am glad to be back, although these last couple days have had the looming work of some design projects. I am glad for the freelance gig's, but it is tough for me to keep a schedule. For example, I will work on something all night till I like it. I am not being paid to do so. I am being paid for 5 hrs of work. I also forget to give myself breaks. Now that I don't smoke (4 months this Fri), I have very little to remind me to step away and maybe... EAT. I am trying to manage my freelance work as if it were someone else. I tend to treat employees a hell of a lot better than I do myself.


Tomorrow I go back to the Girl and return to waiting tables. Yet again I have to train for my job. They moved across the street while I was away. That is a big step, but more so for those that have become entrenched in their old ways at the original store.

Delving into the mind set of veteran employees at a children's store is an effort for a different entry.

For now I am savoring just being back. It's raining and chilly. I love it!!! Soon I will attempt to get back to more of a thought provoking Stupie. For now, "fire bad, trees good."