Healthcare – here we go again

A battle over who to blame for rising health-care costs is escalating, as groups seek to pin the problem on each other and say none of the health-care legislation under consideration does enough to solve it.U.S. spending on health care reached $2.5 trillion in 2009, according to federal estimates. It is expected to jump [...]

I should be doing something more important

It’s a struggle to stay occupied on the weekends when the rest of the time zone is sleeping. I have a few things that I would like to do but I need the freedom to make as much noise as I want and I really need the warming glow of the sun above me. [...]

The drivers outside are frightful

The weather over the next few days is the last of my worries. What worries me is my need to get around when the roads are full other people. The forecast calls for 6-20 inches of additional snow and we’ve still not seen a snowplow head down our street. The traffic has made a [...]

Football

Jessica kicked me out of the house yesterday so that she could host a candle party. If she hadn’t kicked me out I surely would have left – no man wants to hang around when a candle party is in progress. So, I went down to Jeff’s house (Jessica’s bro-in-law) to watch some football. [...]

Halloween

So last weekend John and I had our first Halloween party. We had spent all week getting food and decorations ready. It actually turned out pretty cool. We had the new beer pong table, spooky treats, and witches brew. Leanne and Jeff were great and made 100 jello shots for the party. It was [...]

Can’t sleep, too much time and talent, and zombies

Par for the course during the first week of mid-shift is an inability to sleep throughout the “night.” I only got four hours of sleep and I’m wide awake now. There is no going back to sleep and I will be exhausted by the time I go to bed tomorrow. Luckily, day two always [...]

Halloween

It’s 11:46 and Jessica and I still have an hour left of prep tonight for our party tomorrow. We’ve got a bit of prep to do tomorrow but most of the hard work is done. It will take us a few hours to get into our costumes – it should be fun. More [...]

The Debate

When I was in high school I loved debate class. I spent more of my time and energy on that class than any other subject. There was something about humiliating another person with logic, reason, and facts that drew me in from the start. For the large part, I spent my time debating varsity [...]

The republican party wants change – or do they?

Part of the elections process is pandering to the extreme ends of your particular political party while trying to gain as many votes from the undecided or the other parties. Part of the process is giving your party a platform that will excite the faithful. They’ll bring out their new platform in a series [...]

Can you smell it? It’s the weekend

I’m mere hours away from a respite away from work and away from responsibility. I don’t mind work, in fact, I actually like what I do but I really enjoy my time away from the office. Weekends and leave fantastic because they are generally unstructured. We always have something happening but there is so [...]