Wow. Another month in the history books. Watching the Republican regime crumble isn't nearly as much fun as I'd hoped it would be. It just makes me sad to know that most politicians are as crooked and as greedy as you can imagine them to be, regardless of their party affiliation. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and this presidency has been a case study. I'm not anti-American, but I'm against this war. I'm not anti-military; in fact, I think our military is shamefully treated as far as pay and support goes. I'm not even anti-Republican, but I think that their aims and goals are about as diametrically opposed to mine as you could get. I'm just waiting - waiting for the bubble to burst, for the recession to start, so that we can hurry up and start digging our way back out.
Like a bad penny.... We used to scuba dive as our hobby, a hobby which eventually led to the procurement/construction of a small dive trailer to haul four sets of gear and four cylinders. It was a simple but elegant design - a box on a single axle frame, with the beginnings of a mural painted on both sides, and dive flags at either end. The kids had helped paint it, with Stephen taking special pains with the sharks. When we moved to Nashville, we sold it. We didn't dive as often, and we had no place to store it. Nearly ten years have passed since that October in '99 when we came up here, and I hadn't thought much about the trailer. I thought I had seen it the last time we went to Greenfield, but I wasn't sure. Then Saturday my mother-in-law called to say the neighbor across the street had our trailer for sale. The neighbor was asking a certain price, and we offered a little less. She called back later to say it was ours for the picking up. Sunday we made the trip to fet...
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