Gimp with new Bush Cheney button and purple hat! 

IMMINENT RETURN TO REGULARLY SCHEDULED GRIPING

So, the Untidy Bowl man has yet to concede, but he won't have much choice soon. I got a wonderful gift from Richard today, his Bush-Cheney-2004 button. (see pic) I'll post the one of me too, for those with a strong constitution. It shows how I went around town today with a goofy gimp grin. Hey! I got both pictures posted. I'm not wild about mine, gives a whole new meaning to shellshocked happy!Netvision is now sorted and up to date, so I guess it's time to start hassling Striar the liar again.
Ooooooh, I *do* like the pic of the button. I will treasure it, but now it's time to go hear what our talking heads have to say and wait for Kerry to figure it out.
Tomorrow we will return to our regularly scheduled griping!

HAPPY BOUNCY GIMP

YAY!I can breathe again and my eczema is clearing up all by itself! I also have a huge silly dipsy grin! It actually looks like the Johns have lost-any chance for them is gone. Does that mean the johns have been flushed by failure? Toilet man sent the other john (the VP whore?) out to talk to their supporters. He didn't even have the common courtesy to talk to them himself. What a wimpy loser. I'm just glad that there won't be any more of that fist punching the air and the ketchup queen can go back to squeeze testing bottles. That's one brand I won't have to boycott. I detest ketchup, so never buy it anyway and there are enough Israeli brands of other stuff they sell here that it's no problem not to make her any wealthier! An assette indeed. Yippeeeeee. I am so thankful that the world doesn't have to face 4 years of (sneer) that man.
Bet the Clintons are happy too. '08 is open for Hillary, perish the thought. I can just see them smirking through their condolences. I think that might be why they sicced Carville and the others on Kerry; to insure a Bush win.
I actually got some sleep this morning. I dropped off after Bush hit 269, and only needed one more state. I called Achy when I woke up to tell him about the Fox off air thing. That was just about the funniest thing this whole long election period. Too bad none of our news stations are worthy of that story, however, I might tell Menachem if I run into him when I go out for fags later. I don't even care that I missed Charmed. I'll call The Philmore and gloat later. I think I'll also write to Sandy later and thank her for making me a Republican. The things we did and said to each other way back when we were kids who just parrotted our parents during campaigns. Then, I grew up and saw the light. It's just common sense, people, common sense.
I *do* wonder what will happen to the initiative to prosecute Kerry for treason. I hope it goes ahead. He deserves a nice long rest at Leavenworth. Oi! Today is Wednesday. I have to call Netonesh and pay them. Grrrrrrr. Then go out for fags and maybe a Guinness,(the Jamesons is safe for now) but I think I'll finish my coffee first. WOOHOO the world is safe for now. Thank you Lord.

THE STORY OF MY LIFE

I must have drifted off to sleep at around 04:00 with Fox on, I woke up to silence at around 06:00. No Fox News. Thinking how unacceptable that is, I called cable and asked the guy who answered why they are making things even harder than they have to be for me. He said there's a problem, then asked why the Americans are so put out that Fox is off, afterall CNN is on. After a silent giggle at the thought that Americans in Israel are watching Fox (must write them) I explained that most of us over here are a bot to the right and tend to prefer Fox and some of us even boycott CNN! He said he'd get back on to the techies. This is no way to start a day like today.........but is was fun watching Carville sweat. I should have known Kerry was in deep kaka (like that weapons depot in Iraq when *he* signed up for Toilet. He worked for Barak last election here and look where falula face is now! For those of you don't know Hebrew falula is a not polite word for mole. Maybe I should stay with CNN. The THs there are not looking happy, and they are holding off on calling the winner. I WANT BILL O'REILLY, LIVE not a rerun later.

IT HAD TO HAPPEN

Wouldn't you know? No sooner was That 70s Show over, when (force of habit) I hit 11 for the Israel channel 1 late night news, and the first thing I heard was Dudu Vitztum gaily announcing that Zogby is predicting 'you know who' or 'He who should not be named' as the winner. He also had the nerve to say that Zogby is THE poll. My eczema is getting worse by the minute and is on the verge of bleeding freely. I don't need this crap. If I thought I'd be able to sleep, that's what I'd do, but I'm way too tense and my stomach is doing 'bad news butterflies' Oh, crap, they're running the Jib Jab This Land bit and no one in this idiot *know it all* country will get it. I know! I'll wash the floor, then call STL. Calling him when I'm in a bad mood is such fun and washing the floor is a real good way to get in a bad mood! I wish I could read something, but my mind (what's left of it) keeps wandering. Considering the state of my eczema, maybe I should just take the dogs out for a long walk? Or maybe I should just fool around and look stuff up on the great www, or call The Philmore and torture him with the fact that I voted Bush. It's fun to wind him up sometimes. I wonder if Alice is home or at Tiger Hill. I haven't spoken with her in yonks.

NO ESCAPE

No matter how I try, I can't get away from the election. Even Law and Order got me going. The murder suspect in tonight's episode was named Hillary and she had a passing resemblance to that Clinton woman. At least she was convicted. Not only was she a murderer, she was a prostitute. That I enjoyed. One of the main jerks looked a bit like the one I hope will soon be Mr. Also Ran. I'm already hitting the bottle. I had the last half inch in the Bushmill's bottle and I'm going to open the Jameson's and drink the whole thing if the results are........not good. I have a feeling I'll be rolling back and forth between the idiot box and this blog most of the night.
The talking head from Israel 10 news is in New York to cover the results and he is not a Bush supporter, to put it mildly. He was reporting from the roof of the CBS building and said that the CBS people are running around insanely downstairs, and they showed Cronkite looking on the verge of hysterics. Too bad our guys just don't get it. In fact, tonight's personal opinion guy tried to explain why Kerry would be better for Israel. Boy, did he ever get it wrong. I can't understand how he didn't hear me yelling from here.
Time to try and zone out on Chicago Hope. Wanna bet they have a cast that will get me wound up yet again? Arrrrrrrrgh.

Mrs. Kerry-an ASSETTE?

It's now election day in the US and when the results are in, either 36 hours or 2 months from now, I'll be able to relax, or not, depending. I've been very good today and not gone to Fox News even once. I *did* go grocery shopping and stock up on some much needed things, like little individual containers of humous and tehina, which are fantastic when mixed into a bowl of brown rice! I have a nice pot of rice and onions cooling now, and will soon put it in a plastic box.....
I was excited to find a comment to my Bye bye Y.Arafart post from someone on the DM list. It's delicious trying to figure out who sent it. Comments are so much fun. I wish there were more.
I'm having much fun at the ketchup queen's expense calling her an assette! As in too insignificant to be a full fledged ass. Same goes for husband.....except he really is a full blown ass and as such should be wiped off the political scene entirely. I'm desperately trying to keep my mind off the elections, while at the same time explaining heavenward why Bush has to win. Not even the Americans deserve the alternative. How many times can G-d save their butts before they figure it out?
I only have a few more pages to go in the new J. Kellerman and I've enjoyed it muchly. He made a reference to my internet server, but got it backwards. I don't think that was goof, it looks more like he did it for security reasons. He also has the source of the psycho's murder spree named pretty close to the Hebrew word for murder. No mistake there, I'm sure! You just have to know Hebrew to get it. There is also reference to the bombing at Mike's in Tel Aviv. Reading this book while watching the coverage of yesterday's attack at the Carmel Market was spooky. Al Qaeda isn't stupid enough to think that an attack in Israel would in any way influence the US election?
Of course Arafart is still in Paris(which is in France- you figure it out), and, as the comment speculated, quite possibly meeting with bin Laden or one his henchmen, not to mention others he couldn't have met with while in Ramallah. I *did* get a bit of a giggle from speculation that he was poisoned. How? By someone with access to his kitchen, and why? So they'd be able to moved past being a terror organization and start acting like an entity that could one day become a state? They for sure can't do that as long he's alive. Time will tell. I just hope our lot are keeping a close eye on him in Paris. Those terrorist types are a slippery bunch.
I just wasted an hour looking for a picture of a white French Provincial grand piano like the one at Cfar Blum to no avail. I guess I'll have to go there and take one myself. We'll see. Harley is not doing too well these days and I'm not sure I want to try that far a trip.

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.

BYE BYE YASSER

Bye bye yasser
We'll be glad to you go
Bye bye Yasser
It's time for you to go.
It looks like he just might be on his way to the great terrorist camp in the sky. On the other hand, with him, you just never know. He's one head of state, (ok, head of an almost state who will not be missed by anyone other than his pals whose only protection was that Y. 'Arafart was running the show and driving the corruption train. If he does check out, we'll know soon enough if the so called Palestinians are smart enough to get their collective act together. I won't be betting on that. It should happen fairly soon, but according to news reports, he's already appointed his heirs and presumably given them their orders for the future. Waiting for him to pop his clogs is going to be as nerve wracking as waiting for the US election results. Will he leave, or stay? It seems we have given him permission to leave for treatment, but have yet to promise to let him return. Of course, if he doesn't leave, and croaks, it will be our fault. It might be better to let him leave and take the chance that he just might recover. I find it amusing that he is dragging in doctors from Jordan and Egypt, when the best doctors in the world are but 10 minutes away from him. Granted, it would bring stupidity to a whole new level if one of ours volunteered to treat him. If he were to check out while under the care of one of ours, it would be a matter of minutes until someone yelled murder. Yup, the best thing to do is to promise to let him return!
I have a knack for pissing people off. I don't know what I did, but Teadrinker has stopped talking to me, and I don't know why. So, either she'll get over it, or she won't. At least when I was pissed off at her, she knew why. I have no idea what this about.
Going into town this morning was an exercise in tolerance. It's shouk day and they are predicting rain for tomorrow, so I went to pick up a few things. The traffic at the round about was more insane that usual, but I finally made it there and back. On the way back, the road demolition crew told me that Shimshon was arrested last night so there should be peace a quiet until they let him out again. They picked him up for violating the conditions of his house arrest.

CLUB FOR GROWTH FLIP FLOP AD

This ad brought me running back here. I can't see anything humorous about it.I'm in no mood to laugh at something so true and deadly serious. I might be able to giggle a bit at it *if* Bush wins, and he'd better for the sake of all of us.

http://www.clubforgrowth.net/

TELL ME IT ISN'T TRUE

I admit that I don't know all the details of the latest bit of nonsense the damn dems are trying to spin their way, but, from what I *have* figured out, it just isn't possible that Bush can be held responsible for a bunch of weapons going missing from an Iraqi storage facility. Excuuuuuse me, but that's taking things a little too far. Assuming that the news reports are accurate, and there were tons of weapons stored in that facility, and they disappeared during the time after the units that first saw them left, I just don't see how Bush personally could be responsible, even as Commander in Chief. That's just too far a stretch for 'ministerial responsibility. Like Kerry would have ordered the troops who stopped there overnight to delay moving on in order to secure the site. He wouldn't even have known about it at the time. Give me a break people. The unit that discovered that site was on it's way to Baghdad and had a mission to finish. Maybe, just maybe, the ranking officer who knew about it made a goof and didn't send anyone back to secure it soon enough it from being emptied by who ever emptied it, or, even call in an airstrike to destroy it..........that would not have been a good idea as no one knew exactly what was there........Please, God, Americans have to be smarter than that. It's no reason to vote for Kerry. There *is* no good reason to vote him. He is so smarmy, and worse even than Saddamn. Supercilious, condescending and arrogant come to mind, among other words.
The stupid polls are way too close now. I can't stand it. I'll just go read my emails, then go out for a wander. If this keeps up, I'll probably be back later. BUSH MUST WIN. HEAR ME? BUSH MUST WIN.

SO SUE ME

I really dislike doing what I am about to do right now. Complaining about the weather drives me mad. It's one of many things about which absolutely nothing can be done. Earthquakes are in that category too. No use being scared of 'em cause you can't do anything 'em anyway. And katyushas. If you heard it land, you're ok, if not, it's too late to care. So, back to my weather rant. Winter is taking it's own sweet time in coming. It was over 80C today and it felt like 80% humidity. A sauna is cooler. It was so hot and muggy that I couldn't wait to get home. I did get the new Kellerman book and a Harley Davidson coffee table book. Yahoo.
I came home to find that the guys who are working on the street had connected their generator to my electricity because they'd run out of fuel. They said they'd pay for it. I said that indeed they would and if it happens again they can explain to the judge! Sheesh, go out for an hour, come home and find that someone is stealing power. I'm going to catch the big boss tomorrow and let him have it. They weren't even using the generator, it was just idling on my dime.
My delightful drug addict neighbors provided alternate entertainment during 'quiet time' Mordoch and Shimshon are on the outs and spent the afternoon outside my window threatening each other. The police came and took Mordoch away. He reappeared and they went at it again until the police came and took them both away. Today was one of those when I could wish that they'd just do each other in and let us have some quiet.
I saw an incredibly sappy movie on Hallmark-Love Letter. Why am I so attracted to that sappy stuff?
Less than a week until I can stop going to sleep with Fox News and go back to sleeping with my one true love- Reshet Bet, the all night talk radio station. I'm getting more nervous the closer the day comes. Kerry's gotta lose and lose big. Then, he can get sent to Leavenworth. All his Yammering about Bush's service in the Air National Guard and his own service record and it turns out that he most likely got a dishonorable discharge that was changed by Carter's amnesty. What a sleaze.

WICKED SLEEPY

I have a wicked bad case of the sleepies. So, ok, part of it is left over from the Friday night TV marathon........but I dozed on and off most of Saturday, then got up at 04:45 Sunday morning (it was still dark!) for Dark Matters, which was great this week. Then I did another day of dozing, and went to sleep at a reasonable time, just before 01:00! STL woke me up at around 11:00 to tell me that his cell phone is out of money and that I should call him in the evening or even Monday afternoon. It is now Monday afternoon and I'm going to call him late tonight. I'm not in the mood to hear any more of his fairy tales. If he doesn't have a transfer number, I'll just hang up and not give him a chance to say any more. Enough is enough. I'm pretty sure that this sleepy stuff is a combination of minor depression as a result of the condition my bank account is in and getting pretty much off the macrobiotic thing. I'm going brown rice now, except for Shabbatot. As I really don't like rice, it should be easy enough to eat only when I'm hungry!
Cable has come out with a new 'deal' 199 for life. That's a lot cheaper than what I'm paying now, and I'm going to get an autopay form from them because I just can't pay Mara and Richards internet any more. Every penny helps. I'll have to delay all my projects until things get back to healthy at the bank.
I went to DoggiStyle today because I saw their ad for Dogli for 129 shekels for 20 kilo. They were completely out. The boss/owner/guy talked me into getting them 'old dog' food. The way he explained and demonstrated, it makes sense and my credit card worked! That means that next time I'm out, I just call him and he charges the card on the 3rd of the next month. Yippee! No more dragging heavy bags of dog food around! He will do it. Right now, I have 3 small bags of 'old dog' food that are easy to manage and it looks as if they like it! I also think I might be able to have them come in to walk the dogs if I go away. They are too old to go to a kennel and no one in the area will do it. It's amazing that so many people are so scared of dogs. I'm going to have them come next week to shampoo groom and anti tick and flea them. Their prices are reasonable and they understand that I can't take the dogs there, so they'll come here! I think there are still a couple of anti bug ampules in Irit's room. I'll check in a while.
In the meantime, the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Sharon has reneged on the campaign promise that got him elected. Ok, we do have to separate ourselves from the PA, but not by leaving Gaza without any kind of agreement with them. It will only give them more incentive to continue terrorizing us. That's what happened when we pulled out of Lebanon unilaterally. All the terror moved south. We can not pull out of Gaza under fire. Period. One thing that drives me even wilder is that so many mainstream Israelis use the term conquered interchangeably with occupied. There's a huge difference. Both now have an even more negative connotation than before. There's nothing we'd like more than to let the PA be completely autonomous, but not until they figure out that they must stop the terror. That won't happen until Arafart is gone (he never should have been allowed to get there in the first place) We must be the only country in the world to allow a terrorist to assume the position of head of (almost) state and to continue the terror against the very people who let him in. God help us all if Kerry gets in. Bush,Please, God.
I can't even do a Leah Rabin and threaten to leave if Kerry wins........I've already left there and there's no place to go from here. Only a week to go until we know if there's hope, or if it's all over but the shouting. Will I be the singing fat lady?

VINDICATION?

Way back, a long long time ago, when the question of where are Saddamn's WMDs was the big deal, I saw a piece on CNN showing a satellite image of trucks leaving suspected WMD factories and heading west towards Syria. Like the piece on the Hezbolla threatening the UN officer back in '96, it was shown only a few times and then disappeared! I may be brain damaged, but my memory is just fine. I've been claiming that Saddamn's WMD is most likely in the hands of the Hezzies who are just waiting for the go ahead from Iran or Assad Jr.
Now, see, I'm not alone! This was in the Town Hall news letter I get every day.
Those 48 hours were just enough time to get those weapons out of the reach of the inspectors Toilet Kerry has so much faith in.

No Diversion: The Case Against the War in Iraq Has WeakenedClifford D. May 22.10 04

What happened to those weapons? General DeLong recalls: “Two days before March 19, 2003, we saw quite a number of vehicles going into Syria. We could not go after them because we said we'd give Saddam 48 hours. A lot of (Iraqi) leaders went into Syria, and a lot of WMD went into Syria. We've gotten indications some went into Lebanon, and probably some went into Iran. …We've done calculations that you could probably bury 16 Eiffel Towers or Empire State Buildings and never find them in the desert.”

They won't be found until they are used against us and then it will be too late. The Palestinians will have everything they ever dreamed of, but couldn't be bothered to work for. They are always whining that the Jews are so much better off than they are. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be that we built this country from nothing, with our bare hands and only with the help of the international Jewish community? To this day, they don't lift so much as a finger to better themselves. It's sad but true.
It was another all night Dark Angel fest last night. I *do* like that show and when I went to the episode guide there was a note about the James Patterson book I mentioned last week!
Savta Rivka called today and we had a long discussion on men, and their places in our respective lives. She understands my 'thing' about needing someone who can challenge me intellectually. We had a long talk about Mark and it made me miss him more than ever. So few people can understand why I prefer to live alone, but could be happy with some else who is the same way. It's really hard to explain to someone who doesn't already understand it, so I'll just leave it like that for now.

JUST MY LUCK

Yeah, ok, so I decided many long years ago the living alone is the only way for me, and looks alone have never been the be all and end all. I know, after an 8 year lesson that I can not have any kind of a relationship with someone I do not think is more intelligent, and who can't keep me on my toes. I get bored too easily. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that *I* have to know that 'whoever' has to make me feel like I'm working to keep up. Mark did that and our smartest move was to make a conscious decision to be business partners, not lovers. No wonder so many people thought we were a couple! There are times I regret it, but not when I think of what I would have gone though when he ate his gun. It was bad enough the way things were.
What brought this up today? I'm almost embarrassed to write about it, but here goes. I saw the most handsome man today. Perfect....tall...fit...straight shoulders, great hair, well dressed. Obviously not local. I almost crashed Harley while craning to get a better look. Being me, I didn't have the nerve to make the hard right turn and tail him into the shopping center. And if I had, what then? So, I'm a headcase. What's new?
After that, I went to the butcher for some chicken only to be blocked by some ditzy blond who parked on the ramp. I waited until she appeared. She asked if her car was blocking me. I was a bit sarcastic, and can only hope she won't do it again. While I was waiting for her, a guy came over and asked to look at the sticker on Harley. He wanted one for his father in law-a brit who just got a scooter. I told him I got mine at the 2001 demonstration in Jerusalem.......it was a nice chat, and he complimented me on my last TV appearance.
It's going to be a long night tonight. 3 episodes of Dark Angel, the show I discovered last week. T.G.I.F. and I can sleep in tomorrow, of course that will get me firmly back on Standard Night Owl Time. I guess I dream about the guy I saw. Where does it say I have to consistent or even realistic?

CHEAP AND TAWDRY

The closer we get to Nov 2, the nervouser (is that a word?) I get. As far as I'm concerned, calling both Kerrys cheap and tawdry is an insult to those who *are* cheap and tawdry. It's not enough that Latrine Kerry dragged Cheney's daughter into the debate, now the ketchup heiress has insulted Mrs. Bush as well as every other mother in the US, whether she works out of the home or not. Someone should shove a ketchup bottle in her mouth in an effort to spare the rest of her inanities. What has she ever done that is noteworthy other than be stupid. She can't even speak English! That was some sentence she constructed to insult Mrs. Bush. Using the words "since she's grown up" is what you expect from some whose mother tongue is not English and couldn't find the more appropriate "adult" Sheesh......I hope they don't shut her away until after the election. Her idiocy is much too entertaining and could do the latrine man some much needed damage while providing us with a few laughs.
Speaking of entertainment; I found the name of Smokey and the Bandit in Hebrew!
הפרחח ו בת השריף or The Punk and the Sherriff's Daughter. Go figure. Now all I have to do is find it at a DVD place. I found one on line, but there are no prices and being a cheapskate, I'm going to wait and call after 19:00 when my out of town calls are "free" The site says they are open until 23:00 so I should be able to get through and find out what I want to know.
I found the house with Aga box on the roof. I can't to it from the front because they are tearing up the street there. It won't be long before they tear up the one way street that is parallel to one they are tearing up now. There is not a single street in this city that is even close to smooth. Not a one. They rip one up, put something in, then cover it patchwork style, then rip it up again to put in something they didn't think of the previous time and so on and so forth until the street is impassable. I think city hall has a deal with the tyre and axle companies here. It would be funny if it wasn't EVERY SINGLE STREET IN TOWN, including the main one which has been under construction for several years.

HOUSES, AGAS AND BAD TASTE IN MOVIES

Houses have always fascinated me. The older the better. I adore the chimney pots in England and regret that they are not part of the American skyline, never mind here. It is so much fun to see all the oldish brick houses with bay windows in Teadrinkerland and I go wild over Beeb Prime's house shows. Agas also get me going. I finally loaded the picture of the S Aga box on the rooftop not far Gimp House and just posted it here. I'll have to do some sleuthing to find out what it's all about. I can't imagine a real Aga here unless Channa Mann has one, and she doesn't live anywhere near here. I'm still trying to figure out how to fit a French Provincial grand piano (the one I saw at Cfar Blum) and an Aga in here. There must be a way to get them in a 62 sq. mm flat, right? I dream that Lawrence Llewellyn will wander in one day and figure it out for me. Fat chance......
After watching Black Dog with Patrick Swayze again, I have come to the inescapable conclusion that I have terrible taste in movies. I'm going tomorrow to see if I can find Smokey and the bandit on DVD. I must be in a trucker mood. I love trucks and driving. I also decided that I like Country and Western more than I thought. It's kind of depressing, but as long as I'm alone and the dogs don't complain, who cares?

Aga on a roof 

CONFUSION ETC.

I usually enjoy Richard North Patterson's books, but I'm having trouble with his latest. His hero is an in office Democratic president whose first name is Kerry. Being that I so detest the candidate whose last name is Kerry, we already have a problem. Add to that the plot-second amendment gun issues, and a greedy (to say the least) establishment, and giving the Democrats characteristics that are really Republican, you get a very odd book. His Kerry is much more like Bush that that candidate with the last name of Kerry, I'm just glad I sent my ballot already. Reading that book leaves me dizzy.
I went to the bank and saw Tikva, who dragged Mordy into the whole thing. Why do banks always refuse to approve any solution favorable to the customer, and only let you have enough to stay in trouble forever. Ok, so they want to keep the customer enslaved at any cost, and will not let them get out from under. I guess I should be happy that I'm out of the high interest rate now. Thank G-d I had the good sense to start that savings account. With any luck at all, by the end of January I should be able to get in the black once and for all. It would also help if STL pays only part of what he owes. I would also dearly love to see winter arrive. That will knock my electric bill way down. I would also like 2 months of no a/c at all!

ON AND ON IT GOES

This whole nightmare with Striar the Liar just won't come to an end. When he called last evening with yet another fairy tale and even more excuses, I told him not to call unless he has a transfer number for me and hung up. He had the good sense not to call back. This afternoon, during a call from Teadrinker, there were 3 or 4 call waiting beeps. I told Teadrinker that it most likely was STL. It was.....and rather than let him started, I asked if he had a transfer number for me; he said "no" and I hung up. Something about that call galvanized me, and I started on the bookcase annex. That involves removing the books from the top 3 shelves, building the annexes, removing even more books, getting the shelf for the *Z*s organized and continuing backwards from *Z* to *A*. I made a pretty good start today, and plan to continue tomorrow. Heaven only knows when I'll be able to get the extra shelves.
I quit that project at around 16:00 and took my screaming back to bed. The phone rang just as settled in with a book. It was Tikva from the bank. Oh, yeah, I'm in trouble, but not as much as I thought. She suggested taking out a loan for 10000, paying off the 2000 left on the old loan, and taking care of things that way. I told her that I have a plan of my own. After thinking it over, I'll go with hers. That way, I'll be down to only about -1500 on payday, and anything STL sends will get me out of the red. Also, I have a 'station' coming up on my savings account in January and I'll be able to break out enough to get in the black and stay there, Striar or no Striar. He'd better pay up though. I despise having to take out loans using my savings because he's a conning scheming pathological liar. I know I should be thankful that I have that savings account, and I am. I just resent the hell out of the fact that I have to use it this way because of STL. I *am* glad that I seem to have lit a fire under him again. I'm really getting tired of him and will be happy to move on to other things if he ever pays me back.
I must remember to get a new battery for my watch on the way to the bank in the morning. This one died today and it hasn't been a year yet.