JUST ANOTHER SHABBAT

It seems that only partial wishes/hopes/prayers are being granted these days. Rain was forecast foe the whole weekend starting Friday. Up here we got a few drops, but not enough to bring up that delicious scent of newly wet ground. However, we did get some lovely lightning and thunder sound effects that started while I was out to get the Friday locals and a few things at the butcher. No rain though. There were a few more thundery periods, which I reveled in.
I suppose it's good for us that Arafart got to France still alive; it will be interesting to see what happens if the bas***d recovers and wants to return. Sharon said he could, but lately Sharon tends to go back on his promises. Interesting it will be.
The new OBL tape has made me more nervous than usual vis a vis the election. Kerry gotta not win, and not win big. I finally got smart and turned Fox off and am listening to my beloved Strauss operettas. How will I retain any vestiges of sanity until the results are in? The Yanks have completely lost it. They want to let illegal aliens, dead people and convicts vote. How nuts is that?
On a more up beat note, the new Kellerman book is great, even if it's not an Alex Delaware story. He gives a major hint as to his thoughts on what's going here. I don't know why I surprised to read that he's more to the right than most of LA Jewish folks, but I was, pleasantly. I also enjoyed the references to the detectives in the book he wrote with his wife as well as the honorable mentions of previous books with Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis. I'm giving serious thought to taking a shot at getting the Yahoo group for both Kellermans moving again. I *do* think it was rather rude for it to be dumped on me without so much as a 'by you leave!' Well, I've got it now, so why not try to make something of it? Maybe later today, or tomorrow.
My back is still screaming at me for cleaning the other day. How true it is that if you want a job done right, do it yourself! I just might be able to handle the cleaning if I limit it to once a week. The happy feeling of the floor being properly clean is almost worth the pain. I am, however getting concerned about how shaky, literally, my left leg is getting. It could just be some kind of reaction to overdoing on Wednesday. Time will tell and there's always the quack, if it keeps up.
Tomorrow is that last Sunday I have to get up at 04:45 for dark Matters. It promises to be a great show, so I guess I should just shut up and keep that in mind.
I managed to make it through all 4 episodes of Dark Angel before crashing to sleep, and waking up at 11:00 or so. I've sorted a few things on the computer and come up with a new threat for STL, which will be used tomorrow. So, now, I'll get some lunch and read/watch TV, but not Fox.