Ecclesiastes 10
2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.

Not much more needs to be said.

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Some how I screwed up again and had Blogger set so only members of this blog could comment. That was wrong, I have fixed it again so please say something.

My buddy Nate helped me get the settings changed and, as we did it from his desk, he's manipulating my very words, right now, fixing my punctuation and adding a title to this simple post...

Heh heh heh!

I am preparing to go back to work on Monday, I have been off for two weeks. Part of the time I was in the hospital and on sick leave the rest of the time I was on vacation visiting with my mom. Mom will be here until next Wednesday.

I have a few concerns and thoughts going through my head on going back to work. My job requires me to travel. I was supposed to be on the road this Monday and I have two other trips that are coming up in about a three week period. I am not going on any of them. The fact I threw some more blood clots is not conducive to me climbing on airplanes. I could walk into work Monday and apply for a medical retirement. I have said that if I had one more medical incident I would pull the plug and leave. I don’t want to go back to work but I am not sure that we could swing it right now if I retired. If I stay I have only 15 months until I am eligible for a full retirement.

The left wants to reinstate the draft. Rangel of the far leaning left has this wonderful idea that if we have a draft we won’t be so likely to go to war. I am trying to wrap my brain around that one. Making kids join the military will stop Muslims from attacking us. I am going to have to work on this.

I don’t believe that we should have gone in to Iraq until Afghanistan was taken care of. North Korea has done more to provoke us then Iraq did. Iraq only made folks think they had Weapon of Mass destruction and North Korea has tested them. That being said, it is a good thing that Saddam Hussein is out of power. He is a monster and he was brutal to the people of Iraq. But it may have been better to wait for a while.

Sen. McCain has said that we need more troops in Iraq. More troops against an invisible insurgency in a gorilla type warfare. Does any of this sound familiar? It looks like we will be neck deep in a war that we are not allowed to win. Tens of thousands of young Americans will die until we leave with honor. We will lick our wounds and in 30 years time we will have a president go for a visit to set up free trade. During all this we will have the Islamic hard liners trying to destroy us. Again does any of this sound familiar?

Please don’t let any of this sound like I am anti military. I am not. I fully support the men and women of the military. They keep us free. They are the bravest in the world and deserver our respect and support. I believe we should pull back from many places in the world and take care of our own.

Mom and Ava

Mom and the bride just took off to go shopping. I used the excuse I just got out of the hospital to stay home. I am smoking some salmon this morning. I have had the fillets cure in the brine for the past four hours. They will go in the smoker in about an hour. I have some more leaves to pick up in the back yard. I am just working at that as I can.

The doctor called last night and told I no longer had to give my self shots in the stomach. I was giving myself a shot ever 12 hours since I left the hospital. It was not that bad, but I am glad it is over.

My daughter and her husband are coming over this afternoon and they are bringing Ava who was five months old yesterday. The son in law will help me replace the water line for the ice maker in the refrigerator. I was in the basement the other day and I noticed it was leaking.

I started to run my trap line in the kitchen last night. I ended up catching two mice. I run this trap line every fall. A trap line for those of you who don’t know is a line of traps that are use to catch mink, fox, beaver, coyotes, and all manner of critters for their fur. I have to have a very good year of catching mice in hopes to get enough fur for even a small coat.

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I just got home from the hospital. I have spent the last couple of nights there. It looks like I have thrown some more blood clots into my lungs. I did the same thing last year about this time. I was telling the bride I would like to spend one fall with out going to the hospital.

I spent most of the day watching my youngest granddaughter (Ava). She will be 5 months on the 17th. She is a good baby and not to hard to take care of, but I am here to tell you that I am way out of practice changing dirty diapers. It got done but it was not pretty.

Oh no it is half time and the Chargers are losing 28 to 7.

I woke up at 2:30 this morning. I have not been able to get back to sleep so I decided to get up and do some stuff around the house. We have a self cleaning oven and I figured it would be a good time to clean the oven. Nothing is better than a clean oven with Thanksgiving just around the corner. I push the button and I get an error message. I push the button again and I get the same error message. I pull the stove out to unplug it. I know this will fix it, kind of like doing a reboot. You are not going to believe this, it did not work. I did find some paper work on the back of the oven. It had a fault list and it appears we have a bad door lock/latch., or something that works with it. Being the handy man that I am I will have the bride call the appliance repair guy and get him to come out . The stove still works so we will not have to eat raw food. I don’t mind some of my food raw but spaghetti is a little tough to chew.

I clean leaves out of the back yard yesterday. What a job, it took me the better part of the afternoon to get it mostly done. The bad thing is my trees still have most of their leaves and are waiting until I turn my back to drop them. The backyard tree can be evil like that. The tree I have in the front yard is a whole lot better. It turns a beautiful dark red in the fall and in just one day it drops everything. I can go out there and in one session I can be done. The back yard I will be working on until it snows and the leaves are covered.

The weather guessers say we may have some snow this evening. Snow this early does not last that long. It would be nice to have snow around thanksgiving. Mom is coming out and she loves the snow. Mom is 85 and she still lives alone. I have tired for years to get her to move up here. I don’t think she ever will, but I would love it if she did. I am off to wander around the house and look at stuff I should be doing.

Al Qaeda in Iraq's purported leader vowed on Friday that his fighters would never rest until they have reached Jerusalem and destroy the White House.

America does not get it. These (I am trying to remember I am a Christian) people want to destroy us. Our only hope is to take the war to them. The American people voted Tuesday for the Democratic Party. Al Qaeda said in the same statement that they were glad the American people voted in the dems. What does that tell you? We are fighting for our very existence and most Americans don’t know it.

I am worried, very worried, and you should be too.

The Democrats have taken control of the house and they may take control of the senate. This is not a good day for America; Nancy Pelosi will be speaker of the house. I can see the renewed emphasis on the slaughter of unborn babies, a renewed and accelerated attack on the second amendment. Gay marriage will become the law of the land and the gay agenda will be force on our school aged children.

I believe the vote yesterday was a get us out of Iraq vote. If we go back in time and look at early 60’s. We were in a war similar to the fight we have today, the democrats were in charge and the war escalated out of control. It was the republicans that got us out of the war. The biggest difference in the two wars is the Vietnamese just wanted us gone; the Muslims want to kill us and take over the world.

Neither party is strong on border security but I believe the republicans were a little better. But now I fully except to see amnesty for the illegals. I have no doubt that America will be okay but I see some dark days ahead.

I went to the desert today with my friend Nate. We saw plenty of rabbits as we drove down the dirt road. We got out and walked a little kicking up a few more. All were out of range ad moving fast. I was not feeling very well so we went back to the truck set up some targets and spent the rest of the day target shooting. It was a wonderful time. I brought along an Jack o lantern and we made short work of it. Nate with his 45 acp and me with my 9mm. I have not had very much practice lately with my handguns and it showed. I am determined to get in more practice. If you own guns you might as well be good with them.

We left the house this morning in the pouring rain. I had my doubts that we were going to get out into the desert with out getting into some serious mud. But the weather out there was great and the ground was dry. I look forward to the next trip already.

I dialed a number and got the following recording:
"I am not available right now, but thank you for caring enough to call. I am making some changes in my life. Please leave a message after the beep. If I do not return your call, you are one of the changes."
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At pilots training back in the Air Corps they taught us,
"Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal to the number of take offs you make."
~~~~~ Aspire to inspire before you expire.
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My wife and I had words,
but I didn't get to use mine.
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Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses.
~~~~~Blessed are those who can give without remembering
and take without forgetting.
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The irony of life is that, by the time you're old enough to know your way around,
you're not going anywhere.

~~~~~God made man before woman so as to give him time to think
of an answer for her first question.
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I was always taught to respect my elders,
but it keeps getting harder to find one.

~~~~~Every morning is the dawn of a new error