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June 6th, 2010Been busy with personal things, very busy. It’s a good thing, but bad for my blog.
Yes, I’m still here and hopefully this week I should have some time to visit everyone’s blogs.
A lot to say but I’ll keep it all short. Several things I’ve learned in life. Probably most importantly, the most important thing you have is your health and the health of your loved ones. If you have both, be thankful. Everything else is replaceable. Yes, that includes your house, your car, all your belongings. They’re just stuff. People aren’t replaceable and neither if your health.
Another thing, British Petroleum should get a lifetime ban from anywhere that can affect the US of A. It’s absolutely sickening to see all those animals coming up dead. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the people killed in the accident. And yes, BP hasn’t been doing enough. I don’t care what the CEO says. He’s a moron.
In politics, the Republicans are blaming Obama and the Democrats are blaming the Republicans. Both are wrong. The blame needs to go to British Petroleum.
The Gulf is already polluted. It’s just getting worse. We need to do something about our energy policies. I’ve written about alternative solutions several times in the past so I’m not just one of those people who bitch but have no answers.
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I’ve been reading fiction books again (besides Harry Potter). The author I like now is Jim Butcher. I’m on book 5 of his Harry Dresden series. Harry Dresden if you’ve never heard of him is a wizard in modern day Chicago. The books are not easy reads as they will emotionally drain you to the point that I have to take a break between reading each book.
I’m so glad to read fiction again as I realized I must have been turning dry reading nothing but history, politics, and economics. Those all are good for the mind, don’t get me wrong. Fiction though is good for the soul.
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And yes, still no TV. It’s great. You get so much more done if you don’t watch TV.
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Although we still watch movies at friends’ houses. The other night, we went over to my real estate agent’s house and watched Taken. I’ve seen it before and said this before, thank goodness for Liam Neeson as the recent James Bond movies are downright lame. Nice to have an action hero that’s good. If you haven’t seen Taken and you like action movies, go out and rent it.
So after the movie, I turned to my real estate agent and said “man, France was probably a pretty nice country before all those fucking Albanians moved in.”