Like most years, late summer brings with it depression. Why? I don't really know. I'm just wired that way. Is it the amount of daylight? I don't
know. Is it some psychological thing from the trauma that was my life in high school? I don't know. Could it be that by August I just need a real
vacation. And by real vacation I mean get in the minivan and go somewhere with people in mouse costumes and rides that make you throw up.
Hotels. Expensive food that isn't all that good. VACATION in AMERICA! Pointless? You bet. Waste of money? Absolutely. Totally worth it? YES!!!
That's like one of those credit card commercials:
Gas for the minivan - $475
Entrance to the amusement park - $640
Funnel cake at the park - $15
Throwing up all over Mickey - Priceless
But, that's probably not going to happen this year - again. But I will be getting a few days off in a week or so. God willing. Then a couple of
weeks after that I get to go on business trips. Two of 'em. Fun? No, not really. I have to spend the whole day in and out of airports, then hours
and hours and HOURS of boring crap. Not to mention the fact that I have to FLY!
Have I mentioned that I hate to fly? The long lines and the security check at the airport, I can live with that. And if I get to fly in one of the
big
planes, that's not so bad. (still makes me wanna HURL, but not so bad). It's the little planes that I get stuck in that bug me. Imagine a '65 Impala
with wings - and not the ones you see at the car shows, I'm talking about the kind with 200000 miles on it, muffler held on with an untwisted wire
coat hanger, dashboard all cracked with pieces of foam sticking out, just like the seats. That's the kind of plane I seem to get stuck in. All shaking
and rattling and bouncing up and down more than driving on a gravel road in Nebraska. So not only do I have to fly once, but twice within two
weeks. Yippee.
I saw the saddest stupidest thing today. And of course the sadder and stupider it is the more likely it is to get time on the Today show. (No,
forget the soldiers in Iraq. Don't show the people in Afghanistan who are bowing in the streets thanking Americans for removing the Taliban.
Instead show the few who continue to call our President a liar because it's the "right" thing to do. Let's not show "ground zero" anymore or talk
about the people who lost loved ones and are still suffering 4 years later - yes, it's only been 4 YEARS. No, instead, let's put on Bill Mahr to talk
about his new book that bashes everyone who doesn't think like he does - and who does?) So, anyway, here's Katie Couric interviewing
these old ladies who supposedly really wanted to sign up to serve in the military - on the condition that they send home and equal number of
boys. All the while they are singing anti-Bush songs, carrying signs that proclaim "no war for oil" (by the way, anyone who really believes we're in
Iraq for the oil - let me point out that there's more in Texas and New Mexico than Iraq currently produces). Why are these people on TV? Because
the media is controlled by the liberals and liberals think its ok to bash Bush. When "their president" was in office - and having ADULTEROUS SEX in
that OFFICE - we were the ones being intolerant of his "humanity". Now we're the bad guys for supporting a president who’s protecting
Americans by taking out those who will hurt us. Explain that to me, please.
That's my soapbox rant for the day.
Oh, and by the way, Anna and I are expecting.
