I seem to have taken sorry...

...my blog posts haven't been very creative lately. I guess I've been a little stagnant, which is a little ironic since I've been invited to join a local writer's guild. Perhaps these other women can enlighten me as to how to be funny when I feel incredibly unfunny.

Just got the new Chris Knight CD, Enough Rope. Definitely worth a listen, especially "Don't go Lookin for Trouble" and that other song about being on the road. Many of us have been there, and I wouldn't go back to that for the world or all the money in it. I gotta say "Cry Lonely" was pretty pertinent to my life 9 months ago.

Looking back as to the past 12 months, I would say that I've made some fairly good progress. I'm done with the deadwood that dragging me down for so long, but I will say that I've been so ADD at work that I'm having a hard time accomplishing anything. I had to put off programming my console today because I just simply couldn't focus. I'm pretty fortunate in that I have the luxury of postponing those kinds of tasks.

BTW, the Chris Knight shows at Smith's Olde Bar this past weekend were pretty stellar. Friday night left a little to be desired, lacking in energy, but the delivery was still there. Saturday night was filled with 1k and 4k feeding in the vox monitor, but the energy was there, and a much better show. I'm sure Billy got his share of text messages telling him what the problem was....ooohhh poor Billy, or Cosmo as we like to call him. Oh to be 21 and mixing in a rock venue again...and a good venue at that..with other engineers who protect you...

Peace out.

On Republicans and fisher(wo)men

First off, I never created this blog to discuss politics. Myself, I believe that Americans take politics incredibly too personally. I have never dissolved a friendship because of opposing politics, but I know people who have. I hate hearing the personal attacks hurled at Republican/Democratic/Libertarian/Communist/Socialist/Catfishitarian candidates from the lunch tables of my workplace. I believe that if one is going to debate (notice I did not use the word "argue") politics, then the statements should be based in fact and reality, not speculation or personal feelings. Statements like "he's just evil" have no place in a rational marketplace of ideas. But we all seem to have a hard time staying away from those sort of things, so I tend to stay out of it.

But I would like just to say one thing. I REALLY REALLY wanted to like Sarah Palin. She was an unknown to me. I mean, I knew that Alaska had a governor, I just wasn't familiar with who it actually was. Come on, kids. It's Alaska. Who cares? Just wasn't on my radar. But when I found out a little more about her, I was intrigued. A maverick leader who ran on a ticket out to defeat corruption sounded okay by me. A hunter and fisherman, well, I could relate to that, having grown up in a culture of hunting and fishing (and not in a quaint, recreational way, nor a redneck, possum eating kind of way, either). I imagined a hippie libertarian with bold new ideas. Someone rather new to the political arena who might not have been brainwashed enough to just nod and smile and keep her mouth shut.

But I just can't like her. And not because her vetting has developed the appearance of a Saturday Night Live skit. That part, I actually love, proving that even politicians are human and that I have a depraved sense of humor. But because SHE seems so devoid of a sense of humor and greatly lacking in any good sense.

My $.02, for what it's worth.

Flame away. I'm sure I've got it coming.