Zelda Sees the Light

As anyone who reads this knows, Zelda is our cat. Well, no, not our cat - Bennie's cat I should say. I refuse to have anything to do with her. Okay, sometimes I'll pet her, but then she will ATTACK me and bite me. So I don't like her. Except now Bennie has a new toy, and it is so much fun. He got a small laser pen light. It drives Zelda crazy! We can just sit, point the light around the room, and watch her go beserk trying to catch it. It's a good thing too because now she is finally getting some exercise. She was getting fat.

Just to bring you up to date on my life -

Last Monday I went to the Foxx-Harrell debate in East Bend. I was actually kind of undecided although I'm a pretty staunch Republican. But Harrell really turned me off when he started talking about different organizations and businesses having whatever they needed if he was elected. It sounded like he was just going to give our money away right and left. I have kind of gotten used to these lower taxes, and I don't want them going up again. So that sealed it for me.

Wednesday night the youth and YSA's at church put on a Halloween carnival for our branch. It was a great activity, and a lot of people came. Bennie made two cakes for our cake walk. One was a chocolate cake with chocolate icing that he decorated with marshmallow pumpkins. The other was a sponge cake with chocolate icing that was also decorated with marshmallow pumpkins. The thing is, it was real sponge. He had brought home a large piece of foam (2" thick) from work and cut it to 9"x13". So after it was decorated, it looked just like a chocolate cake. So I gathered the Young Women around when I got to church, and we decided to "present" it to the Young Men for helping us out on the activity. They were so appreciative. You can imagine. A whole cake just for them - around six or seven of them. So they went and got a knife and started to cut it into pieces. It was so cool. The girls had a great time watching the guys realize they had been had.

On FridayI voted. I got to the courthouse at 2:45, thinking that would be a good time, everybody else being at work. Well apparently a lot of other people had the same idea. I got out at 3:40, just shy of an hour.

Then yesterday I went to our big "Grand Finale Republican Rally" at Veteran's Park in Mt. Airy. I have gotten to be pretty active in the party in the last several months. This was fun. They had hamburgers, hot dogs, and BBQ for supper. Then a band played - "The Breeze" - and they were pretty good. Then they auctioned some stuff off to raise money. Then the candidates all talked. Next Tuesday night I am going back for our "Victory Party" at Headquarters.

That's about it. Quentin was in this weekend with the "Girls from Wilmington". He should write about his adventures in his blog - including his brush with the law, again, and his "Dangle from Death" in the cave.

Listen Up, I'm Lost in NY(CSI) waiting for Dr. Vegas

Okay, I'm having some fun with several TV shows I've been watching. Each fall when I get the "Season Premiere" TV Guide I will go through and read about all the new shows. Then, I'll highlight the ones I think I will like. I'll watch at least the first one to see if it is any good or not. So, usually I'll end up liking one or two out of about fifteen I'll try. This year these are the new shows I like: Listen Up, Lost, NYCSI, and Dr. Vegas. Listen Up has Jason Alexander (George Costanza) and Malcolm Jamal Warner (Theo Huxtable). It is only half an hour, and I think it's really funny. It comes on Monday nights at 8:30.

NYCSI has Gary Sinese and is really good. Well, I've only seen the first one, but I have the others on tape and plan to get to them soon.

Dr. Vegas is just fun. And Rob Lowe is cute.

And then we come to Lost. This is a great show! It is one of those continued shows where you need to see all of them. Several people survived a plane crash on an island. It has Matthew Fox (Po5) who plays a doctor. I think it's really interesting. There are a lot of mysteries in this show. Each week some of them get answered, but then other questions arise. I hate waiting a whole week to find out what happens next.

And also, this fall, there is football. I love watching Michael Vick play. Today they beat San Diego, and Vick made some really good plays in the fourth quarter. They were playing at the same time the Panthers were playing, but when I flipped to them they were losing to Philadelphia pretty bad, so I kept watching the Atlanta game.

So I guess I've just been in a TV mood for this update. I'll try to think of something more interesting next time.

Another Debate

Finally, our guy came through. Last night was completely different than the first debate. I thought President Bush did a great job. He seemed very comfortable in this setting. Kerry was again poised and was a good debater, but he just doesn't have any gumption. He seems spineless and weak, despite all his tough talk. And how can both of them act so nice to each other before and after the debates, and then go at each other like sworn enemies during the debate and on the campaign trail? Are they both suck ups or what?

I figured something out last night. I was thinking about Iraq and Saddam Hussein, since this report has come out about no WMD. This is what I think. When we were in the first gulf war under the other President Bush, most everybody in our country was behind this. And all of us wanted Saddam Hussein dead. Well, that didn't happen. And all this time I think a lot of us have just been waiting to get him. So, when we went back to war this time, we were for it, just to get Saddam. So, now we have him. So for a lot of us we could care less about whether they find any WMD - we got Saddam. And all this other stuff that has come out about the billions of dollars he stole from the Oil for Food program, and paying off the French, Germans, and Russians, and all the mass killings he did, and just his evilness in general, this is just proof that we did a good thing. As President Bush says, the world is a much safer place without Saddam. So, to me, and a lot of other people, that is reason enough. They didn't need to find any WMD. I think we did the right thing by going to war anyway. I just wish the Iraqis would get stronger faster and start taking care of their own problems so our troops can come home.

The Fun Debate

I just thought this was fun, watching Dick Cheney take on that upstart. He was so cool when he talked about not having met him before, but my favorite part was when they started arguing, and Cheney really got the best of him. They were talking about Kerry (and Edwards both) demeaning the Iraqis and their prime minister, and Cheney said it was "beyond the pale". It was Cheney's turn talking, and Edwards tried to interrupt and say something, but Cheney wouldn't let him. It was cool. There is something I hate though, and that is all the spin that happens after something like this. Of course all the Dems are going to say Edwards did the best, and the Republicans will say Cheney did. I acknowledged last week that Bush did not do a very good job, but this time Cheney ruled, no matter what anyone says!