Catching up

Now, back to catching up on my postings. Before getting back to the backpacking adventure I want to take a few moments to explain the long gap in between postings. I'd recently signed up with the Red Cross and during the wildfires in California we were involved in helping those displaced. I didn't leave the area but it was pretty busy with collections activities and providing general support to those who did travel. It didn't feel like I did much but the feeling of being part of a group effort was the highlight of the past two weeks. We just hope that those who were displaced will receive the help they need to rebuild their lives.

In between responding to emergencies and working on the latest contract I helped out with babysitting. Brock's boys and a new friend's newborn kept me occupied with not much time to dwell on the fact that my youngest son is going to Iraq next year with his Pennsylvania Army National Guard unit. That's going to weigh heavily on our minds until he's there and we have a whole new set of problems to contemplate. I just hope that the idiots in office give up on this made up war that was dreamed up to line their pockets. The economy is imploding here and I'm sick of the Re-pub-licken party. It's almost time to change my party affiliation but not before I cast a negative vote in the primaries. I hope that many other registered republican voters do the same. Vote for the weakest republican candidate and then at election time vote for ANY Democrat put forward. I hope the independents will do the same at election time. I'd vote independent but its a wasted vote until the bad party is weakened. The only reason "it" got elected the second time is because many of the older folks won't change their vote during the time of war, even if it's a made up war.