On My Mind

When I bought my little 4x4 economy car a few years ago I could top it off for a tad over $13. But the price of gasoline was on the rise and no reason to think it would stop. Indeed it has not. When I arrived in town in the early afternoon today the price of regular was effectively $4.10. When I departed later on that evening it was $4.18! It now costs nearly twice as much to top off my tiny little tank than it did when I first bought my car to save on gas in the first place.

I hate to sound like a global warming denialist but what the fuck already? A little local warming would be a nice start like, say, sometime this Spring. A week ago it was 80°F. Today it's closer to 30°F! To top it off, my lights start to flicker as the sky cracks. Thunder snow!? God must be really pissed! Nothing follows a December Big Gulp like a 4 month Slushy!

Blood pressure normal. Not diabetic. So saith the good doctor during todays follow up to my visit several weeks ago when I was diagnosed with high blood pressure and prescribed medication. There were several contributing factors: I was dealing with a difficult client at the time and I was drinking copious amounts of Mountain Dew Amp energy drink to relax.

Yes, I'm voting for Obama! More than that, I'm a Democratic delegate in my precinct for him which means that I have to be at some county convention this weekend at 9 AM in the morning. Brutal.

After an unseasonably eventful winter season packed full of floods, wind storms, blizzards, car accidents and, yes, an abnormal amount of business of all things – it's usually so dead that I have to put essentials on credit and pay it off later on during the year – I needed something to get me out of the house. Something to get me off my ass and unplugged from the computer. So with a spontaneous decision Monday morning I made my way out my snowy driveway, through a springtime hailstorm so severe I had to 4x4 it over the ice-covered hills and signed up for a college course.