Oy! Don't get me started!
I'm in the same smoky heat in Colorado, my kids don't call, they don't write, not one of them is a doctor yet...
Oh. Are we limited to just whining about AS?
Good. I can do that. Really well.
I've stayed sober for 31 years by making a "gratitude list" when I think things suck. There's always something to be grateful for.
Like: Thank G-d for air conditioning and the electricity to run it! So many out east don't have that.
Like: A couple weeks ago I took my two and a half year old grandson to his first pro-level NHRA drag race. He has two Hot Wheels funny cars and fell instantly in love with the body quaking noise and the spectacle. As 76 year old Top Alcohol Funny Car legend Vern Moats said to me as he put my tyke in the driver's seat of his (on blocks) 4000 hp car, "Hook 'em young and ya got 'em for life." Drag racing is still one of my first loves, even if my body can't take 5 g's any more. I've got a racing buddy.
like: I live in Lake Woebegone, Colorado, where nothing exciting ever happens. No wildfires. No severe weather. And I'm actually down with that. Boredom has it's place.
I could go on, but it ruins the spirit of the thing, doesn't it?
I'll be back next time I really need to whine though. Count on it.
Shalom,
John
Author: Mayan Solstice: A Novel of 2012 (
http://www.createspace.com/3420054)
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.-
from "The Door into Summer" (1957), chapter 1 (Robert Anson Heinlein)
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (again, RAH)
