A loss for words

Now and then you have to try and do something different especially when you hope to spur people to think about things, much less take action on anything. And sometimes you just can’t beat the same horse over and over again. People get tired of it. And that goes for things people can agree on.

And I seem to be struggling with this intro, I had this idea a week ago, but have been pretty ill so it has been hard to sit down and dedicate some time. Anyway dear reader, as you know I am pretty wrapped up in wanting us to head in a better direction for our country. And we all know the political situation is crazier and crazier. One of my concerns in the back of everything I do is we are not just losing democracy, but also our humanity. It just isn’t the constant bickering and name calling both in Congress and all the website postings, but in general.

Our constitution and the country’s potential should bode well for the whole of humanity, but lately our country seems to have lost a value system. And yes I know money has driven much of our country’s growth and attitudes, yet we have always had some advent of the human condition in mind when things changed. Sometimes change was harsh such as the civil war or the civil rights movement or the labor movements of the late 1800’s, but something better developed. Nowadays though we seem to be going backward.

I am going to write a short story free style on this blog. I do not profess it will change the world, but to give you a different approach in talking about where things are headed in our world. I have my ideas on it, and I know how it will end, but I am going to write it every now and then straight up, no editing and as of right now there has not been one word put on paper. So randomly you are going to get installments until completed. I am not going to edit as I go along except for general spelling and grammar. A while back I posted something called the Paranoid posts where I took certain scenarios in the world and took them to an extreme conclusion. This will not be like that at all, but the story will be taking one path how I see humanity headed unless we start making changes. This is completely fiction and is based on the very near future.  Anytime you see a blog with the title below it will have an excerpt of the developing story. I may do a second one also. There will also be regular blog posts in between the story posts. So here goes.

A Loss for words

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She woke up thinking things were greatly different than when she was with him. She knew this was going to be the case, but she just didn’t realize what the differences would be.

She first thought it would be loneliness, but overall she is quite happy with herself. The money was never going to be a problem. He left her plenty. She is smart so she knew she could manage the money through the years. And it had been a few years since he died and since she is still relatively young, now in her forties, she knows her life by herself will go on for quite a few more. Right now she is okay, maybe down the road she may want another person in her life. And it isn’t like she is living on an island.

Her small three bedroom house in an older working class neighborhood was fine originally. They had picked it out together when he first found out he was seriously ill. He wanted to do so much for her. She had always been simple so she did not need anything fancy. And she didn’t want to be bothered with gated communities, or high rise communities. She loved gardening and reading. She really did. Not many people her age did anymore, but she enjoyed quiet and both those activities gave her great joy.

The neighborhood looked the same, sort of. Nowadays since most houses were rent houses they were not kept up like they use to be. And she had to be careful. She learned that she couldn’t make the front of her house to nice. People noticed and not the right people. So the front yard was somewhat bare, grass lawn and a few rose bushes up against the house. And never in full bloom, she watered them enough to keep them going, but never enough where they stood out majestically.

She was lucky the house came with a large 8 foot privacy fence and for all appearances on the outside it looked like it was getting old mainly because she never had it painted. On the inside of the back yard though was a very luscious garden and no lawn. The backyard had walkways through a variety of plants, flowers, and a small garden for growing vegetables and spices.

The inside of the house was essentially a small kitchen, the bedroom where she slept, and then walls and walls of books lined the rest of the rooms. There were chairs and tables in each room so whenever she felt like reading she could just pick a book and lose track of time for days. This suited her well.

He had loved her.

He had been married twice before and was already close to 60 when she met him. His first wife was very self-centered. He tried to make the marriage work, but she graved attention and since he was starting his own business he really just didn’t have the time for her the way she wanted. They had two children. He loved his children, but she poisoned them against him. Some of it was his own fault. He worked all the time so she spent the day with them telling them how their Father didn’t care since he was never home. When they got older they never communicated with him until they found out he was dying. Then they came around and they would never leave.

His second family had died in a car crash. His wife and their two children were killed in a freak accident with a semi-truck on the highway. The driver had fallen asleep in the middle of the day and crashed into the back of their car going about 70. Traffic had backed up in the city. She had nowhere to go from what witnesses could tell. It was just unfortunate she was the last car in the back up when the truck slammed into their car. He was distraught for a long time. His business had been doing well and he had great people working for him that kept it going. Also he received a large sum of money from the accident, yet at this point nothing mattered to him anymore. His second wife was so different and so loving compared to his first wife. He had almost committed suicide a couple of times right after the accident.

He survived for years until he met her. She brought him back to life. They had five wonderful years together. He became reengaged with his business and it thrived. He gave large sums of money to various charities at her suggestion. He was able to plan for her. The doctors gave him about 6 months to live when they diagnosed him. It turned about to be too correct. He re wrote his will giving some to his first children, some to charities, reinvested some so the business could continue without him, and the rest to her. He bought her the house before he died along with the furniture and some security aspects that of late were very handy. At first she thought it was a bit much, but he felt like he needed to make sure she was safe forever. So she relented, now she was grateful.

Not having people come by to do any work around the house is a blessing. She only trusted a few people. The neighborhood was run more like the old immigrant neighborhoods of over 100 years ago. There was a boss man for each neighborhood and they had their workers. She knew who the boss was for their neighborhood and he knew who she was. He was never certain, but suspected there was more to her than she let on. He was always milling about or having his people follow her to the store. 

Most people that lived in the neighborhood owed the boss something. Rents were extravagant for the houses and most people were forced out. Turnover in the neighborhood constant. Yes there were police and elected officials, but everyone knew they were just there for show. This let people think they still lived in a democracy because you still got to vote. Of course voting was a privilege and only certain people could vote; like it mattered. And since most people didn’t have an education the charade of a democracy was becoming less important every year.

She had heard in some neighborhoods it still mattered, but everywhere you had to be privileged to vote. She knew that the candidates were handpicked at all levels. Even the Presidency was a show for the masses. The only thing that mattered was which boss was more powerful. And this changed regularly. Turf wars were common. People backed their current boss because you never knew what you were going to get if things changed. She avoided this world and glad he did pass away before these changes took place. He always cared what happened. He was always a news junkie and knew what was going on all over the world. He would not have survived anyway.

The days, then the months, and now the years were passing. She watched children grow up. They were rarely the same children. Some came and went, most went, to move to another neighborhood and then move on again. Education was a term people used. There were still schools and most children went till 6^th grade. At that point the standardized tests were administered for the children. Most of them were sent to be trained in the military so they could be ready for the various wars at 16. The survivors were starting to come back at age 30 or 40 to unemployment or if lucky some in descript service job. A very lucky few were sent to be trained for technical employment. In her neighborhood this was a very lucky few. And then every now and then one might be sent somewhere special. They had some talent that needed to be utilized for upper class or to become part of the upper class. Or so they said. Other children just disappeared. Some cute girl or boy that was seen by someone.  They were never long for this world. Yet no one did anything for these children.

To be continued

I am still working on this so if you have any thoughts or comments you can always email me at dallasareaopinion@gmail.com

Waiting to see on a few things

Well we all know there needs to be some decisions on the debt level and then spending again. At some point this whole country is going to need to sit down and do a realistic look at our budget and what are our priorities as a nation. We just cannot keep going month to month and expect things to eventually work out. And of course depending on your political leanings it is the other side’s fault

They say you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, yet lately I can only spit out vinegar. I am at the point where we just have to say the truth and the truth is the future isn’t looking too bright for the average Joe. Large swaths of this country are being negatively impacted by the lack of cohesion by our Congress and the rise of the far right. Yet we sit silently and at best run some comment somewhere or complain to a friend if anything at all. As you know I would like us to discard our current two political parties in favor of new ones if at least just to interject new energy into the country and hopefully more rational government for a while. Even that may need change down the road, but once you create something and it becomes positive others can feed off it to carry on something new. I can only hope.

So I am waiting to see if Mr. Ryan becomes Speaker, if so does the debt limit get increased and then what is the plan, and then what happens in December for a spending bill. I do not like some of Mr. Ryan’s proposals, but can he even get a radical conservative budget passed if the tea party doesn’t get anything. Strange times indeed.

Remember the phrase, when the going gets tough the tough get going, then there was “when the going gets weird the weird turn pro” (HST and still one of my favorites) but now are we to the point where when the going gets desperate, the disparate watch TV?

So we will watch and see what happens over the next few months and if anything really changes. Well I might try a change… been thinking of taking a different approach to things so watch for blogs titled “loss for words” so more to come.

And speaking of desperate, a very difficult reality is facing our neighbors to the South picking up after a massive storm. The remnants of which are supposedly headed this way. We will see, but definitely we need to be mindful and helpful where possible of those people caught up in Mother Nature’s wrath or at least her little Nino.

On a side note, I told you in a previous post about a fake Facebook page I created and to find it I said the birthdate for Matthew John was sometime in the 80’s. I changed it to 10/24/1929 for Black Thursday which was the beginning of the crash more popularly known as Black Tuesday 10/29/1929. Yep I agreed I was 86 years old. Well actually I am not and that age scared me, but what the heck. And now you know. Also there are a few pictures of the State Fair posted on it.

And finally on this rainy night I have my ultimate optimistic dream for the Mavericks this year. First everyone gets healthy quickly, yes we may struggle the first month or so, but by January everything is kicking in, McGee is coming on in the Center role, we are small ball monsters, by March no more injuries and the Mavericks are hitting their stride at the right time maybe still fighting for the 6^th-8^th playoff spot or wishful thinking a bit higher, but by the playoffs Dirk is fairly rested yet only the third or fourth highest scorer on the team, McGee is actually the center we dream he can be, our ball movement is picture perfect and we have enough defense to actually mean something. Yes folks, fans are allowed to see the cup half full.

Have a great and quiet evening and we will see what happens.

Always running late to the party

So the Democrat debate was earlier this week and by now I am guessing you are pretty tired of hearing about it. And quite frankly I am at the point where I couldn’t even watch it. I kept turning it off and on hoping to feel inspired or something or at least like I wanted one of these people to be President.

I have come to the point where watching either of the debates is like pulling your fingernails off. You have no idea why you are doing it while you are doing it and yet you continue to do it even though the pain is excruciating. And then afterwards you are left with a constant throbbing that makes no sense at all.  And then there was CNN’s love fest with itself and the debate. So you have this terrible pain inflicting your brain and then the after coverage is this nauseatingly sickly sweet of self-love you just want the whole night to end abruptly and cannot find relief.  Well I hope you enjoyed it.

And usually I like to tie a ribbon around my local Sport’s team season after it ends. I just can’t for the Rangers. That was a great game till the 7^th inning. I was dizzy and in disbelief by the time that ended. A great comeback season marred by such a weird inning. I feel for them because it is going to be a seriously long off season.

I will be adding a couple more pictures to my fake face book page soon from the State Fair. Yes we went for the evening and proceeded to spend most of the time there eating too much and unhealthily. Enjoyed every minute of it. I weighed myself the next day and did actually gain pounds. One thing I didn’t do when I got a new phone was think about camera quality so not the greatest pictures cause well you know,,, I am cheap.

Okay back to the debate because everyone made such a big deal about Mr. Sanders backing up Mrs. Clinton on the email controversy. Actually I think it was a shrewd move. First he wants to make this a debate about the issues. It is his best way to rise in the polls. He can attract some people with his income inequality line for a while. And second if Mrs. Clinton does get into trouble he was the magnanimous candidate that said focus on the issues and let the investigation run its course.  If the investigation runs its course and finds something he gains ground as an issue candidate and one that is above the fray. And even if it doesn’t he can continue his issue based narrative and hold the high card.

Well the week has been in the 90’s so hot even for our standards in October, but this weekend we have been promised highs in the 80’s, wow a cool front.  Hopefully you are getting to enjoy real fall weather and it won’t get too cold for over a month or so. Have a great weekend.

Two sensitive topics

I always struggle with why, and I know you have heard people talking about this also, good women or smart women choose bad men. I really struggle as to why this cannot be overcome. Especially in this day and age where there are so many books for women to help them get through “whatever”.

And I begged the question on this one because I think the same reason we have so many pop psychology books for women also is some of the same underlying problems that prevent smart women from making good choices. A person could be simplistic and say this is all to do with insecurity, but at what level.

Many of you in the working world have seen strong women in the work place, but then there personal life is a shambles. So you know they can handle their own, so saying their bad decision making is based on insecurity doesn’t seem to fit the bill. Yet there is something going on that prevents them being able to have solid relationships and this can include with female friends also.

I have read and heard that women need good relationships with their Fathers and I do believe that to be true. Many women that have supportive Dads tend to do better in their social relationships. How much though is based on their relationship with their Dad or does a bad relationship help to foster insecurity on the relationship front?

I didn’t say I was going to have an answer to this topic, but I want to bring it up because I think it is something that needs to be addressed and not through pop psychology books. My Mom read a ton of these and it didn’t do her a damn bit of good.

Or I could say my answer is for women to all go to the mirror and tell themselves they are worthwhile humans, they love themselves, and don’t let anyone disrespect themselves, you know what the books say. Again it sounds good, but women either do not do it or there is more to this problem than meets the eye. I believe the latter.

We need something though. Women are way too abused and forsaken in much of the world. There is nothing that says we should allow this. Even the most literal interpretation of the Bible would suggest women should be treated as an equal to man since woman comes from man (specifically created from the rib). This makes the woman just as much a human as the man, but so many religions and religious people espouse mis-interpretations of the Bible to keep women “in their place” This is obviously wrong.

And in the third world there is much work to be done, but here in the first world if women can learn to make good decisions in their relationships and show themselves self respect this might help to move forward women from all around the world. I think the best example of someone standing up as a women is the girl from Pakistan Malala Yousafzai. Unfortunately now Hollywood has gotten into the act so there will be some distortion.  We do not need to make all young girls try to be her, just try to be themselves. And in trying to be them self we can hopefully they can learn to actually have self respect for them self which I think will lead to them having better relationships. It is a start, but for some reason a very difficult start. And for women worldwide it goes back to the golden rule, due unto others as you would do unto yourself, or love your neighbor as yourself etc….. Yet until we can start having women in the Western world take their lives in their own hands it is going to be difficult for women in the third world. Malala may be a hero, but she is also an outlier and a rare bird. There is more to this discussion and that includes everything from changing many males attitudes to truly addressing world wide problems like human trafficking.  Yet as with everything the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.

In case you haven’t figured it out I am from and live in Texas. And yes I have shot guns, many of them, starting at a very young age. I do not own any guns right now and never really have. There have been a few occasions where I have had to carry a gun for at least reasonable purposes. I wonder the thinking of my friends who loaned me one since they were walking and working with me at the time and they had a pretty good idea I am not always the best shot. And they trusted me that I would actually hit the rattle snake if we came upon one while working in the brush instead of their foot.

And I truly believe we need to keep the second amendment along with all the rest of the Bill of Rights and Constitution.

I do believe though there are people out there that have no business carrying guns. And yes this includes the mentally ill, but this isn’t about them. It is about all the crazies out there carrying guns, touting guns rights who truly have no inkling or respect of what a gun represents. And now we have open carry in Texas. This is the last thing we need. A bunch of trumped up pyschos strutting their peacock feathers walking around displaying they are armed. It is these people more than the petty criminal that may make me buy a gun. Not that I would carry it around, but to have at home because God only knows why they think they need to prove to the world they are a “man”.

I fear the day something bad happens and you have all these irrational politicians trying to justify it because they pander to these people’s votes. And you need to know there is a difference between truly responsible gun owners and support for the NRA versus the vocal insanity that has developed over the last few years that is driving some real dangerous thinking.

What good is going to come about of right wing nuts that are self empowered by the open carry legislation thinking that they have all the right answers and at some point forget they are no better than others and become fodder for some political movement that justifies their insanity? Or just in general some whacko person in their 20’s drunk out of their mind trying to “make their point” and some young child ends up in a hospital somewhere or worse.

Oh yeah did you hear there was a shooting outside AT&T Stadium after the Cowboy game. Yeah we are not that far away from some real disasters. And then how do our so called Representatives put this genie back in the bottle.

And what is worse is that the majority of people (gun owners and non gun owners) do not want open carry. This really was pandering to a vocal minority (very vocal) to get votes when even most rational gun owners aren’t that hyped up about open carry. There is this problem that some gun owners backed away from making noise against this group because they feared being ostracized by other gun owners. Yet they knew this wasn’t in anyone’s best interest. I fear too many conservatives are letting themselves be bullied by people calling themselves conservative.  Things just do not bode well.

If some of the people I am speaking about read this, you know they will come out strong against it.

So the world is isn’t perfect, we have problems, and yet we can make it better. It just takes the people who seem to have the most at stake getting involved. What can we do to motivate them?

And you know by now my favorite answer is education, but these issues are more than scholastic education. It always sounds so trivial, but family values and family are important. Some people tend to associate the term family values with the myth of the perfect family in the 50’s, but the reality is we need to remember the importance of what a strong family offers young people growing up. A well rounded educated family is the best foundation we can offer our children and we shouldn’t let it be denigrated by people who think we do not need a value system. So many so called intellectual elitists discount this most fundamental aspect of any society or country because they associate it with people who mis apply what it really means and use it for a political ends instead of helping to keep our society great. This may not be the direct answer to these two topics, but if you really dig down deep it is a great way to prevent problems like this from becoming endemic to us all. I just hope it is not too late. And as always, I am open to positive suggestions to help.

It has been a very warm day here in North Texas even for us so actually looking forward to a bit of fall weather. The State Fair begins its last week so a corny dog needs to be on the menu for us all. Have a great week.

And I added a few pictures of downtown Dallas on my fake facebook page. Details of it are in a previous post.

Some more things

Well, where do we start?

It took 162 games, but way to go Rangers. And it was well worth the wait. Tomorrow begins a new season.

My daughter made the observation, chlorine pools and cigarettes is the smell of Las Vegas.  Hmmm not quite completely sure about that one, but worth mentioning

I saw a headline that says Rupert Murdoch says Ben Carson would be a real black President. What does that mean and why can’t we just say Ben Carson will be a real President?

There is much discussion about climate change, if it exists, and if so is it man created. The head of the IMF is getting in on the act.  How come no one is talking about what happens (man influenced or not) when the sea levels do rise and some coastal cities are changed or flooded? Or what exactly are we going to do? Sell beachfront property in Orlando? Is there anyone doing more than saying: “this is bad”? I have always said fossil fuel by products are killing us and it has nothing to do with climate change. And yes I also do know we would not be able to quit fossil fuels over night, but why can’t the political will come about to make the obvious transformation. There are so many benefits to moving forward that it befuddles me we can’t.

Huffington Post had an article stating it is now time for Mr. Trump to put up or shut up. They were talking about him spending his own money to start to really pull away in the race. In some ways they might be correct.

Some observational ironies. And this one has probably already been said: Irony is winning the lotto on the day you retire.

A doctor told me I have to do what most people my age can’t do and still want to do. I have no desire to do it.  Eat more salt.

They are filming a mini series in downtown Dallas from the book 11-22-1963. Streets around Dealey Plaza were closed. Someone forgot to tell everyone that drives to work in downtown. Traffic was an absolute disaster the first day. It made the news so now everyone knows and traffic is much better.

Will Biden run? That seems to be the question of the week. As you now I have always said the Democrats better find someone else than Hillary and have been saying it for a long time now.

And just for poops and grins, are we going to get a Cruz v Sanders race next year? Talk about the hard extremes. And it seems the middle class looks up from its lost American Dream and wonders why someone doesn’t do anything about this.

Catching up and more

Well it has been awhile. Things have been happening on the world front and the home front. Do not know where to begin and I probably won’t get to everything nor remember everything.

First of all and you have to be a Dallasite to appreciate this one, going down Central 70mph on a Saturday night starting at Walnut and heading south is always a fun thing to do nowadays. It is always busy, but at least it was flowing. You just get this weird open air tunnel feeling with the walls etc and the buildings running along the service road. Many years ago it was a nightmare to get on Central anywhere south of Plano.

We went to an interesting event this evening. As you know I am always harping on how we need to improve education in this county. Well I was partially proved wrong. There was a local school district’s fine arts program presentation and for family reasons I attended. I have to give credit where credit is due and I believe that arts etc should be a part of a well-rounded education even at the K-12 level. The program was not run well, but the performances were unexpectedly good and entertaining. I was impressed. The teachers had done a fine job of preparing their students and it also included a multi- cultural theme. There were many schools involved so that may have had something to do with managing the overall show.

This joke is probably past its timing, but don’t you get the impression that Donald Trump has never seen the movie:” A day without a Mexican”

The youngest is always good for a gem or two and tonight she quoted that she was not going to be an alcoholic, but will be an experienced drinker. She will be a wine connoisseur and go down to her wine cellar and be able to enjoy her wine.  She is young, what can you say.

Her other gem and I agreed I would do this with her and that is to go to London and in front of Buckingham Palace get a big bucket of tea and throw it all over the place and in fake British accents go around telling everyone we are having a “Tea Party”. Ah…. to be young and crazy again.

I am not a big fan of Reince Preibus and I do not know him so I have to be careful. As with any good person I have formed opinions of him not based on one iota of fact.  I cannot remember seeing him on TV for any length of time, nor have I met him, yet to me he comes off as well I better keep my mouth shut because it ain’t good. And yet again he said something that ticked off a bunch of people that I partly agree with and that is the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries maybe shouldn’t be first all the time. Now I have nothing against the people of those two states, there are very good reasons not to change them, and I am a traditionalist so I like things staying the same, but I think his statement should be given some more thought.  They do have the experience of really breaking down the candidates so changing who goes first may actually hurt the process, but also at some point you have to start thinking about shaking things up since we are getting such trash over and over again. And I do not blame the two states they are only working with what is given to them, but maybe if we worked something in we might have a bit more of an open run at the start of the primary season that this country needs. Just a thought. He got clobbered for it in the stories I have read, but sometimes if it gets that much animosity it deserves some deeper reflection.

In one week we went to having a very surreal and once in a lifetime experience to dealing with family drama. Yes the joys of a semi large family.

Part of the good experience involved an extraordinary amount of driving. Now I love driving through our country. We do have a very beautiful country. I do have to say though that after many days of driving back and forth it can get to you. And I am not young anymore. I was wearing out at the end.

And we just missed out on fall foliage. I think just by a week or so. There was some hint of colors in the leaves as we drove through Tennessee and Virginia. Unfortunately we got hit with some rain off and on so it took some of the joy out of the drive. We did see Philadelphia for the first time for a few days. Mostly though we were preoccupied with a particular event…….yes we saw the Pope. We have some pictures that are within 10-15 feet of him driving by. It was definitely quite an experience.

The good officials of Philadelphia, the Church etc I think did a great job overall. We were able to enjoy the trip and events pretty much snag free. One observation I had I can tell you they planned for any and all contingencies. I mean all contingencies it seemed like. The one snag we did run across was a big one though. They needed to have more security entrances or lines to get into the Mass. I think there were many people who were still trying to get through security when Mass started. It took us three hours + and when we did get through the line was two to three times longer than when we started in the morning and it was 2 o’clock. Mass started at four. Otherwise the weekend went well. We enjoyed some tourists moments also. We ate Philly Cheese steaks and loved them. We did some other shopping. There was a great market area in downtown. We saw the Liberty Bell. I think it is a definite must for all of us Americans. And there was more to the Bell’s story than I realized so it was very educational. Much history can be attributed to the bell. It was quite an hour + going through and reading all the info before you get to see the bell and take pictures.

Back to Texas and the Rangers are just about to put me in a hospital. One game, just one game and it is done. Oh well the Angels are still fighting for their playoff lives. It does make a difference. Last game is tomorrow. I do not know the Astros score as I write so maybe it is done. I am going to check after I post this.

And for the Cowboys, who knows what is going to happen now. 8 weeks without Dez and Tony. The offensive line is great, but I do not know if it is great enough to move second string players through 8 games. Lets hope they push through enough wins to leave us a chance. It will still take Tony a game or two to get back into mental game shape, much less physical game shape. My oldest daughter was going to get me a T-shirt that said something along the lines of I didn’t use to drink till Jerry bought the Cowboys or something similar. Well somehow he seems to have given up a bit of control and things have started to go well, then these injuries. Can’t catch a break with any local team right now. And yes that includes this Mavericks summer. Maybe the Stars can go through a season with a normal fighting chance.

And then there is Boehner’s resignation. I tweeted out or sent it out somehow when I was reading all the stories about why he was resigning that it may have been as simple as him having a lucid moment after the Pope spoke at the Capitol building. There is way too much insanity going on in Washington as you well know.

Well it is getting late and I still haven’t caught up on my rest and tomorrow is another crazy day. Got the regular responsibilities, then a family birthday, the Rangers and the Cowboys playing, teaching the youngest to drive some more, but I think tomorrow one of the older siblings is going to take that duty, and a host of weekend chores since today was two family events that lasted till a couple of hours ago.

And oh yeah, the State Fair is going on right now. If you aren’t doing anything head on down to Dallas and enjoy a Corny dog and all sorts of crazy fried things.

And finally (and this is where I put the comment about Boehner) I created a fake facebook page. The name is Matthew John, there is not a photo, and the birthdate is 04/8/1982 and I have no idea where this birthdate came from. I didn’t enter anything and one day it appeared. It also shows me as self employed in case you want to go find it. I created it so I could post on stories that require a facebook log on. Everything should be public. I don’t know how to manage facebook so I am receiving all the posts out from the Cowboys, Rangers, and Mavericks so if you see tons of their info you are probably on the right page. You can read through everything. I know I have promised myself not to post on these stories, but I am a political junkie and these posts knock back the monkey on my back for a while. There are not too many posts because I do maintain some self control and other times I forget to click the little button that says add to Facebook. Every now and then I just link up a story I think should be shared. You do not need to friend me or anything. Just more reading if you are curious.

Gotta love life because what else are we going to do. Have a great fall weather rest of your weekend.