More Friday Doldrums

Yes, it's Friday again, the Friday before labor day weekend (big deal). We are staring at two possible hurricanes headed at us. Most likely will rain all weekend. I probably will end of working Monday, unless the wife has other ideas, of course. Barack got nominated this week, and put on a nice show. Bill and Hillary appear to be well on-board, as is Al Gore. All gave rousing speeches, as they should. I see Old Fart John McCain just nominated the gov. of Alaska, a 40 something female, to be VP candidate with hime. She appears to be pretty far right (pro-life, pro oil drilling in Anwar, described as "born again" Christian). However, she is young (and a looker), and has a nice family (5 kids). Probably a good move on his part. Should be an interesting couple of months. I just hope we "dont get fooled again", as the Who liked to sing.

Probably won't make much difference in my little life, of course. I just hope whoever gets in can instill some confidence in the economy again, and get things moving. I would like to be able to retire in a couple years, as planned, but don't want to give up my house equity for a song.

Have a good weekend, all!

Friday Doldrums

Here's just some good old stuff, no particular reason. I'm still downloading a lot of old R&R - Its amazing how much I actually missed, back in the day. I thought I was always up on the latest thing, but once married life kicked in for me in the mid-70's, I apparently missed a lot. Many of my old heros (like Neil) produced a lot of good stuff in the late 70's to current, and until about a year ago, I missed most of it. Thank God for old fanatics like myself, and the net. You can get just about anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant, as Arlo used to sing.

It's Friday, and our tropical storm is moving toward the panhandle, slowing, throwing off bands in about a 300 mile radius, and still causing a fuss in Sarasota -breezy, some showers, but nothing serious. Gave the east coast a good soaking, though. Not looking forward to the weekend, which will be grass mowing, and hearing more about my backlog of importance home maintenance projects. The lawn still looks like swiss cheese, thanks to sneaky cinch bugs, but after a good dose of pesticide a couple weeks ago, looks like it's starting to grow in again. As the neighbor was nice enough to point out, once you get a brown spot, the bugs have moved onto greener pastures, and unless you dose them good with toxic chemicals, you can count on the roots of the good St. Augustine grass dying in short order. May as well plant rocks.

That brings Arizona to mind again - no grass!

Latest and Greatest Post

Were are supposedly having a tropical storm in old Sarasota today, but fortunately, it blew further east, as far as the eye is concerned, and we are only getting a mild breeze and some rain. Pictures above represent the old rockers (CSNY, below), and a new rocker (top picture). Its all good, as they say. I will try to think of something more meaningful to post next time around.

At Last, A Post!

This is a stupid picture I came upon, but has a lot of boomer nostalgia value, so here it is. The wife a week ago friday she wanted to drive to North Carolina (700 miles), to see daughter and kids, which is fine, but Mother-in-law was in back seat. She's ok, but what a grueling trip. It was in mid-90's in Raliegh, and hotter in South Carolina. We got to stay at a couple of mediocre motels, and ate a lot of pretty bad road food, except for Sonny's Barbecue, which was pretty good, as usual. Got to see Meghan (6), and Johanna (11), and get goofy with them, which made the trip worth it.

I see Issac Hayes just died; 65. Too many of us 60's types dying off these days - I still want my 20 bonus years.