for a new friend

To be adored, to be known, valued for who you are. Who could ask for more?

Life like a book

opened to a page

you want to read the words

but not feel the pain

To connect and to hold

something more.

We all wish

we all hope

some fail

some don't.

music

I went to see Marc play at Molly Malone's tonight (well technically last night...).

The gig went ok, the CD has some good tunes on it; but the soundman was asleep at the switch.

And whoever was the idiot who had music LOUD in the bar proper, it was feeding thru into the performance room. (Oh well, shades of Kulaks's and the fairy tweaker ex-porno jerk who always plays bass when a performer is on next door).

Shame on you Molly Malones'!

Oh well...

I still think Marc's got the talent....

A direction for the President?

The opinion section of the LA Times today... (Yes, I know -- some of my friends will scream at me!); but still:

"The inclination with any new president is to define him by those who came before. So we graft Barack Obama's head atop the black-and-white, cigarette-puffing image of Franklin Roosevelt (as Time did), or we dress him up as George Washington (as the New Yorker did), or we expound on how similar he is to that other tall, skinny, relatively inexperienced Illinois politician, Abraham Lincoln. Some even have compared the coming pitter-patter of Sasha and Malia with our sepia-toned memories of John-John and Caroline. 

But much less has been said about another president Obama praised forcefully during the campaign. "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not, and a way that Bill Clinton did not," Obama told Nevada's Reno Gazette-Journal last January. Reagan, he explained, "tapped into what people were already feeling, which was: We want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing." "

o o o

"During his eight years in office, the Great Communicator often used his remarkable powers of persuasion to advance a policy agenda that was not helpful to the generation that came after him. America's massive debt to China and other nations, rampant consumerism, an unregulated Wall Street and willful ignorance about issues from climate change to energy alternatives all have roots that were planted during Reagan's 1980s."  (link to article)

Gives one furiously to think.

U.S. economy may sputter for years

Unemployment could be worse than now by the time President-elect Barack Obama's first term ends.

By Peter G. Gosselin 
January 19, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- Transfixed by the daily spectacle of dismal economic news and wild Wall Street swings, few Americans have looked up to see what a wide array of economists say lies beyond the immediate crisis.

And with good reason: The picture isn't pretty. Click for the full story

Updated:

and It just gets better...

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/08/first-quarter-layoffs-selection-of-job-cuts-by-major-companies/

And the Inaugural bash?

I'm usually last in line for hope.

defininition(s)

Optimist: "This is the best of all possible worlds".

Pessimist: "I'm afraid that this *IS* the best of all possible worlds".

But, there is hope.

REACH WITH OBAMA - Lisa Nemzo

Watch it. Loud.

I don't want to go here

Pippi has some form of lymphoma of an intestinal variety.

Taffy cost me incredible amounts of money, and now (being off-work) I just don't have it. Even if I did, the outcome is pretty grim; and I don't want to wish the chemo and radiation on her...

But she's such a sweet cat. At night she purrs and cuddles up on my stomach, and will stay on my legs all night long. She comes when I call her, responds vocally and with a tail-swish, and I know that she's listening.

God isn't much help; I just feel the lack of ability to do for.

I've been avoiding the bad thoughts, but am very aware of the eventual outcome. It is getting closer because she's passing blood, which is a new symptom. Mostly before, she just had some *issues* and if I kept her box clean; they were minimized. I know that she's not doing it deliberately, but having a cat that S**Ts randomly isn't much fun. It's worse because I know why; but can't fix it.

I don't know how long... but she gets as much tuna and chicken as she wants. I'll have to ask Taffy to watch for her.