Sometimes people make me nuts

I find myself in a mixture of emotions this evening. Things seem a bit contridictory. There are things I don't understand. It comes from all the corners of the internet and real life that I visit.

My company keeps putting in "improvements" that are anything but. Every new computer system they install does less and takes longer to operate than the one before.

The city I live in (OK, tiny little town) raises water rates and then hires more people.

George Bush's answer to a foundering economy is to increase spending and cut taxes. Oh yeah and kill people.

People appear nekid online in personal ads and then claim to be shy.

A woman I know does art that she claims is about community building but is the most abrasive controlling person I know.

A community forum I belong to that claims to be about love is actually full of folks that spend more time sniping than loving.

Most days I look and see the good, and find the smiles, and trust the goodness of the folks around me. Today? Not so much. Probably has something to do with the Urology appointment tomorrow in the town 2 1/2 miles away that I'll be driving to. Oh well, I get to pick up fencing materials at Home Depot. Life isn't all strange and bad. I still get to nail things up.

Work work work......

A day in the life is sometimes a couple days long. :)

I got back from Denver on Sunday night and it was getting late. Then up and off to work at 8 AM like usual. That afternoon found me on a snow cat at 11,000 feet looking for bad spots in the powerlines. :) Yesterday finished up at 12:30 PM and I didn't get called out for a whole 6 hours! Lucky huh?

So now we're home and watching movies and relaxing. I'm all showered and starting to feel quite weary. So tonight will be quiet and slow and relaxed. Funny how a day can be a couple days that all run together and funnier still how it can end up quiet and happy.

Life's funny. ...........

Grad weekend

I don't get to my projects very often in the Spring. First work is a bit overwhelming during this trasnsition from Winter sloth to Summer production in the fields. There's lots of fixing of transformer banks, burned off poles from field burning, spring snow storms and the starting of service for deep well field pumps. Then there are the social obligations. Graduation happens and I did have a number of friends graduate from college and a few of the neighbor kids from High School. Then there are the unusual things, helping LoLo with her grad school stuff by trying to take any load off her that isn't school related, fixing cars, doing computer stuff for friends, putting out fires for other friends in college during finals week (they get SO stressed and things that are normally easy for them are difficult during that last couple weeks). And my niece is getting a huge surgury for Cerebral Palsey (she's 8) this month so we have things to worry over and do about that.

It's odd, this school thing. I went to night school for 12 years total to get my BA. I like to tell folks I kept getting left back :) This is my first semester out of college in over a decade. I'm having a bit of trouble with scheguling. It's really NICE to be able to sit and play a bit, but then there's so much work to do............

And the gallery/studio project. It's so BIG I have trouble staying on task. :) I have decided to finish the yard clean up and studio first so that I can get to work in there at least one weekend a month on pottery. It's important to keep working at what you love. I really do believe that. I'll spend May on our home and go ovver there in June. We'll see how I do.

And there are politics in May. I'm secretary for our local/county democratic party. People whine a lot about how politics sucks but most of them don't get involved. If you don't get involved and complain about it? Shut the fuck up, you don't know what your're talking about and aren't doing anything to fix it. Do we need a different party system? Yes, hell yes. How do you think you're gonna get it? By sitting around and gabbing with like minded do nothing friends who lament the situation or by working to get enough people elected through the process we have to reach a tipping point that allows it to happen. #1 has no chance of success without a bloody revolution, #2 is far fetched but possible. I'm all in favor of a bloody revolution, I think we need one, but most of the whiners shy from actually putting their money where their mouth is. No play there.

ANYHOW, I digress. Spring is party meetings and the selection of candidates for the ballot. If you're an "independant" voter you do not participate in this process and get to choose who I pick for you to vote on. Our Colorado State meeting is May 19th in Greeley, Colorado. It's Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Should be fun.

Then there's body stuff I'm fighting. The slow reduction to kibble will happen. I'd rather keep it working well for a while. Doctor appointments to follow, non-gory details will be posted.

That's my update. I'll be back.