No Good Prospects for 2008 Yet!

I am still waiting for my working class hero of the people to emerge and take the country by storm! Where are you? All of these candidates are far too similar! Someone please save us from yet another election where there is only two rich, white guys supported by special interests! And no, when I say "save us", I am not talking to you Hillary!

Cracked Windshields & Dead Preachers

This morning I went out to my car and there was a massive crack in the windshield. I was pissed! I just don't want to deal with crap like this... The crack went from the top, down about 9 inches and then took a detour left for another 7 or 8 inches. The weird thing was that the crack was not on either side of the glass! It could not be felt inside or out, but was there anyway. My friend Keith knows a lot about cars and had no idea what was going on with my crazy windshield! AHHH! I hope it does not shatter on me.

This morning a man I would have called enemy a few years ago passed away. Jerry Falwell the leader of the moral majority and the man who embodies everything that I think is screwed up in the Church was found collapsed in his office. I have no joy in hearing that this man has passed on... and today I heard a lot of people (conservative & liberal alike) say that "at least he always stood up for what he believed in." I pray that I am remembered that way someday.

I could talk all day about how almost everything this man said was (in my view) completely wrong and how attitudes like his are the "anti-Christ." And as misdirected as I believe he was, he is gone now... and what he said is between him and God. I guess the only thing left to do is prove him wrong in a manner of speaking. Try to spend time with those who his moral majority deemed "unworthy" of God's love. Maybe extend the branches of the Church out of white, middle to upper class, suburbs. I must be getting old or something!

Anyway, I would like to extend my condolences to his family on many levels. And I will not hold it against his ghost for cracking my windshield! I guess I deserve that one for all the mouthing off I have done over the years...

Things I Should Have Done A Long Time Ago

I put things off... a lot! If you know me outside of this blog you know that I am a great procrastinator... Why take out the trash? I can just smash it down more! Why complete my paperwork ahead of time? I'll just do it the night before it is due! These are the more mild of my offenses... there are some things I have been putting off for a very long time. The biggest of these is seeking out certain people I once called friend and apologizing to them. You see, after getting married, graduating a college I disliked, moving a few times, and switching jobs once or twice... I just stopped trying.

Sometimes people just float apart... and that is true. But it is easier to float apart if one (or both) of them are just not trying. I guess that I just got fed up with things... tired of attitudes, tired of failing, and tired of being the go to guy. There was once a time in my life where I was the king of networking. Seriously! I knew a lot of people and I was a born promoter... Friends, bands, pastors, even college professors came to me and asked me for favors and somehow I pulled these favors off! Looking back, I know that I kind of winged it on a lot of stuff... and although the smarter people knew that and still didn't mind, I often wonder how I got myself into some of those situations... and more importantly, how I got out!

The thing is, after awhile I got sick of being the go-to guy and I shut down on everyone. I have been in a year of self-imposed seclusion because I just couldn't deal with friends, the church, or really anything anymore. I have kept limited communication with some friends, but there are others (even ones who never asked me for a thing) that I just cut off. Well, I am trying to change... I really do miss everybody and I have started to make my apologies. Except to those who always just kept me around for favors... that might take awhile. We will see.