One-Armed Superstar in the Deep South

I had surgery on my left shoulder for the second time Friday. I thought I would take a long weekend and recoup while catching up on my reading, but I didn't count on the Vicodin arresting my conscience. No reading for me (no thinking, either).
So now I'm back at work, feeling like I'm having withdrawals from the narcotics, but I probably just slept too much.
I picked up that silly bitch's book in the store the other day and discovered I wasn't prepared to part with $26 to read it. I'm waiting for a used copy to pop up somewhere for $10. Let me know if you see any.

Speaking of Being Behind...

Andy mentioned this blog on his site two days ago and I didn't know about it until this morning. That's what you get when you move to south Georgia - no Internet access. Oh, well.
I'm behind on my reading, also. If you'll take a look at the "What I'm Reading" section, you'll notice I'm working on several books. There's plenty more to read, too.
This is all just filler. Sorry there's nothing important, but I'm trying to stay on top of my blogging. I should have a column on leadership before long. Until then...

Forming a Balanced Opinion

I've been considering the purchase of Ann Coulter's book, "How to Talk to a Liberal (if you must): The World According to Ann Coulter", but I'm not so sure I'd finish it.

Or maybe I'd become so patriotic and gay/French bashing, I'd turn to the extreme Right and forget about anyone but the Christians. Maybe if I read it, I can get her to blow me.

It's all because I want a balanced diet of opinions, a healthy start to forming my own. So far, I like what Al Franken thinks, but his story just might be a spin also (but he makes it sound good). Maybe I'll get it and document my journey through her book. That'll be fun.

On another note, I have found a book worth reading. I sat and read a fifth of it last night: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown. So far, it's great. It doesn't start with a dull, quiet beginning (like the Dean Koontz I've read so far), but with interesting facts and happenings. I encourage you to pick it up in hardcover, but the paperback edition probably says the same thing. Very much worth reading so far (if you haven't already; I'm way behind.)

So Much for Fresh Coffee

I should have gone ahead and gotten the Black & Decker Home Cafe. I think it was worth the money after all. I don't make coffee anymore because I only have time for one cup, but in order to get that one cup, I have to make a half a pot.
Don't believe yourself when you think you'll make the time for something so you can settle for less. Go for what you want and get it; don't let your wife say it's too much. If it is indeed too much, wait it out and get the right one. Apply my wisdom to anything, people. Get what you want.

Just Today

I found an Internet connection today; I usually don't on the weekends.

I shouldn't be so negative about work as I have been lately. When I got the job, I was excited solely because I was sure I would be traveling. However, I've spent the last two weeks away from home and it is getting old. There will be no more traveling until next year, and I'm glad.

So I'll try to take a neutral stance to my work from now on. I'm improving for you, people. Be proud of me.

I haven't gathered my thoughts since the election; I wasn't actually expecting Bush to win (by such a margin, anyway), so I didn't have much to say.

I still don't.

I was never too critical of any president - he was elected by the people, wasn't he? I only became critical of President Bush around election time, as probably did everyone else. I wasn't watching the other three years and six months.

I did watch the war some, though, having been in the Army and all. I helped my old unit onto an airplane as they left for Iraq early one cool summer morning in Colorado. I knew that I wouldn't have wanted to go, but I would have if I were still with them.

Save the "Well, you should have stayed in with your fellow soldiers..." talk. You should have served yourself. I joined the Army to better my life and I did. I then went to school to educate myself and succeeded. Why don't you try being a 24-year-old freshman? If you've never served in the military, try giving the whole of four years of your own life to military service, then being way behind the curve in your secondary education, while tending to a young marriage and supporting a child. Oh, and you have to make it look easy.

Anyway, I would have done as I was told if I was in the Army at the time they deployed. I wouldn't have liked it I'm certain, and I probably would have sent my absentee ballot this year from Iraq in favor of Kerry, simply because I was there for reasons only known to George W. Bush and those around him.

I only knew that the President was not favored by many for several reasons, but then again, so was Bill Clinton. But I also knew that some people supported the President for the things he did get right, and that's what I should have focused on.

I know now that I should take my own perspective of our leaders and not listen to my friends or news sources, no matter their political direction. I should form my own opinion of the President and his cabinet (especially that asshole Rumsfeld). I'll try to be better in the next four years.

Bush won.

You know, I could have afforded to vote for Bush, but I didn't buy quite enough Microsoft in 1981. I was (until last night) beginning to think I could get a different job in the technology sector, but not now. I guess I'm stuck in government for four years (at least) until the US is good enough for tech firms to operate here.

I have continued drinking since the meeting today was over. Let's not make the next four miserable years miserable; let's plan Scott's presidential track and make it happen. Send me a bumper sticker already!

So much for that theory about high voter turnout leaning left. Why did you people complain so much about one man and then vote him in again?

At least I already have a job. I hate it for every college student now.

I hope there is a chance that the president was only a muppet for the first term, and everyone to benefit from it got what they wanted. I hope now that he will be a leader as he says he will, except for the Christian conservative in him. I sincerely hope that we get more jobs in the U.S. and we can feel more secure in the coming years. I hope that the killing and senseless dying will cease around the world, whether Bush has anything to do with it or not.

I wish for the leaders of this country to come together without partisanship and make a difference in our lives, which is what I tried to do with my vote yesterday. I wish the best for this country, as I do with all other nations on Earth, and all walks of life in this time of our existence.

We should all take a million steps away and look at the world as a whole. That way we won't see just the blue and red on the 50 states, we'll see that the whole world is brown, green, and blue. We all live on the same planet, which is getting smaller and smaller every year. We will soon have to deal with global issues daily, not just issues which concern our country or our continent.

Let's hope that George W. Bush can play fair in this small playground. Let him not throw sand in the other kids' eyes or show off on the monkey bars. Osama bin Laden may get expelled, but if the rest of us hold hands and stick together, this small dot in time's line won't be so bad for the human race. Besides, what are we put on Earth to do anyway?

Election Night

So it's the night of the election, and I'm stuck in Orlando by the State of Florida. At least I have Internet access. At the time of writing, MSNBC has Bush with 207 votes and Kerry with 206. However, CBS has Bush at 246 and Kerry at 207. Who knows?

I'm going to continue getting drunk so I can go to bed and find out who's president tomorrow.

Or in Five weeks.

Or on January 20.

But we got our sheriff, and our sales tax went up, and I can only marry a woman in Georgia. Talk to you (who?) tomorrow.

What the hell does Cuba have to do with it?

On the way to work this morning, NPR was talking about the last minute stuff and playing clips of highlights in the candidates' speeches this weekend. Out of Bush's mouth comes something like "...and we're going to bring that freedom to Cuba...."

What the hell?

Okay, here goes - we get attacked on 11SEP2001 and we cry and yell and watch the news and worry about people and wonder what is going to happen - are they going to find Osama?

And then Iraq comes on television from left field for no reason. I can't remember anything that happened there; it was just on TV one day.

So we go to Iraq, and people die and America is upset and it isn't justified for a lot of people. On top of that, the Bush administration and his followers tell America and the world that it's to help, or liberate, Iraq. So our attention is diverted from something horrible to something else horrible. Where's Osama?

And Bush turns his attention to Cuba? Christ, I thought we weren't going to fight this war on our land. I could probably swim there from south Florida. Why would we want to "help" Cuba when we're still sore from the sixties and we don't even trade with them?

I bet if this doesn't work, he'll just fuck an intern.