Still the Pits but Angels exist on earth

I've got a part-time job that pays minimum wage. I haven't worked for minimum wage since just after high-school. This pays maybe two bills. Better than nothing you say. And you'd be correct. There is nothing worse than not having a job and having to rely on the saintliness of relatives and great friends. People who can ill afford to help me, but who do so out of the kindness of their hearts. I pray that I can repay them.

Can we say Nadir?

I knew we could. I writing a poem this time. I don't dislike poetry, in fact I sometimes appreciate it. Sometimes.

In the beginning we Aspire.
At the end we Suspire.
Before Unknowing.
After Unknown.
Between...Life.

Oh Joy Almost April

It's almost April. Why is that good? Well, soon I'll be able to turn off the heat which is prohibitively expensive. For most of the winter I've kept the temperature around 61 degrees. It's cold in here. In fact I'm sitting in front of a space heater now. My sharper image gadget clock tells me the temp is 60. Too bad about Sharper Image and a lot of other stores. Too bad about my job.

I'm out of work like lots of other people. And almost out of savings. I took a chance and quit a job I hated at a company where my coworker poured salt in my coffee creamer. My boss them made that person my supervisor after saying that such juvenile actions warranted immediate termination. Uh huh.

Anyway I had a second job with people I knew and liked. Unfortunately, that company fell pretty flat and I was laid off. I've never applied for unemployment because I didn't think I qualified. Besides I think I was too proud. Kept thinking the second company would win a contract and I'd be called back. I was called back for 2 weeks in October and for one day in February. But things look bad now.

Time to call a temporary agency. And hope.

Today is the Day

New President Day.
Well, I tell myself that he's just a man, and not a super-being, but gee I'm proud. With the possible exception of the Saddleback conservatives, he's never met a crowd he couldn't sway.

I appreciate Mr. Obama, Mr. 44, Barack Black Eagle, the One, all the myriad names he's been called. And for the first time in my life I contributed to a campaign, I still don't believe I'm actually going to sit through an Inauguration, but I am. And I will treasure the moment. For once we will be together.

People are coming to Washington from all over the country. The smile doesn't want to leave my face. What a time to be a proud American.

I just hope people realize that he is a catalyst for our own actions. He cannot effect change alone. But I have hope that any decisions that he makes will be done with careful reasoning. he's called a pragmatist and an empiricist, I hope all of that is true.

Most of all I hope his honeymoon with the American People is long and that they don't start building a scaffold for him after his first mistake. All my hopes for my country. Amen.

The New Year is almost here

I for one will not mourn the passing of the old year. I loved the election results. but otherwise the economy, jobs problems and calamities like totaling my car and having my beloved pc die ignobly due to a virus in the HD...oy vey.
Last January I ate all of the "lucky foods" and had no discernible benefit, unless one would count not dying in the car wreck...okay. Maybe I'll grant that I did luck out, but really must I be humbled completely?
Unlike my atheist acquaintances I do believe in a Supreme Being, I just find it hard to fathom why this Being would be concerned with the mundane lives we lead.

However winning the Lottery would be a good thing.

Presidential Election

My goodness. I don't believe the outcome. I keep expecting to wake up and find that it isn't true. It isn't that I am a McCain/Palin supporter. Trust me. I could have supported Senator McCain until I heard Governor Palin. Then his deficits of character (kowtowing to Jerry Falwell) were compounded by hers. I read about her comments about Obama during the over-long primary campaign. Then the code words and phrases started being used... So Governor Palin, since she would not consider me a true American, would never get my support.

I did not support Senator Obama at first. I was a Clinton supporter until I watched the first Democratic Debate. On looking further into the Tony Reszko matter, I decided Senator Clinton went too far. Still I could have supported her, had she won the nomination...until she made that comment about the hard working white Americans and the other one about staying in the race because of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. I began to see her in a different and unflattering light.

I considered sitting out the campaign.

Listening to Obama, helped me decide to donate to his campaign. I have to point out that I've never contributed to a campaign before. I do not care for Oprah Winfrey, but I had to agree that Obama was worthy.

So it's done. Whatever else Republicans called him, like socialist, terrorist, anti-christ...they can now call him Mr. President. There is a certain amount of satisfaction there.

Of course the Reverend Wright wasn't helpful. But on closer inspection, he seemed to be a petty self-serving fool. A little more benign than Joe the Plumber, whose sudden celebrity seems suspect to me. Joe (Sam, whatever) doesn't seem to tap dance as well as Sammy Davis or even Fred Astair. I guess he's more " Joe Six-Pack" than "Johnny Smooth".

There is a lot of work to do. I want to do whatever I can to help. I love my country and I'm proud to be an American, but then I've always been happy that I was born here. Just thought that I should have been born in the 22nd century rather than the 20th. But that's Star Trek nonsense speaking. The fact is that in order to achieve the fantasy well ordered "crime free" "just" "Free-from-want" "poverty-free" society of the 22nd century, there must be a beginning. So let's get started. You say all that is impossible? Before today I would have said a Black President of the United States of America was impossible too. And I was wrong.

Addictions Sexual and Any other kind

I support people who are smart enough to know they need help and brave enough to seek help and profit from that learning process in their lives.  That's all I have to say on that subject.  Oh and I still love David Duchovny.