Damn! Another five days gone by. I’m certainly not on my toes for this job, now am I? Oh well not much is happening. My representative in the Congress passed away, the apparent Democratic presidential nominee came here this week, the current President will be here tomorrow, and then soon to be President Kamala will return again on Thursday the first! That’s a lot for our small town! And it’s in a red state to boot! Whaddaya think they think they’ll get outta all these visits? Votes? Hah, not in Texxas, but it’s not for lack of trying, that’s fer sure! 

Our Rep in Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee (RIP) also ran recently for mayor here, but lost to a local politician. In a way, I’m glad that didn’t happen for us here in H-Town, but does that mean the Guv’nor Hot Wheelz will do the selecting in her absentia? I’ve heard rumors that that’s not how it’s done. But my law license expired the year before I was born. 

Actually my Daddy was a Lawyer type, (we all call our fathers Daddy down here - more ‘spectful!) He didn’t chase any ambulances, but he did do the official Texxas job in Oil and Gas! A Land Man was what he was for a Yankee company called Sunoco! They did right by him for 22 years, and he did right by them ‘til they kicked his booty out ‘cause he computerized his job and they didn’t need him or his big salary anymore. But I’m not complainin’ as the severance check he got was big enough that it paid for the house he bought for me to live in while I went to College in Austin. That was back in the day when Walter Cronkite announced that Austin had just been named the most economical place to live in the U.S. of A. My oh my, how times have changed! It’s up there now with New York City and the like! I’m guessing, but I think the land my house used to be on is appraised at about 2000% higher than Daddy sold it for after I graduated. And he sold it for enough profit that it paid for my books and tuitions for 5 years at that li’l school there. And it took 5 years back then to get me an Architect degree. 

You would think that 5 years in Austin and my red political brainwashing would have been complete. You gotta remember, we had democratic governors a lot back then. We even sent a Dem or two to the Senate and those good ol’ boys made good - one of ‘em even got the Big Job in DC. In fact my stunted political education came from associating with the Dallas Delegation to the Democratic Party. My Daddy always said that being a Dem in Texas was considered a ‘Publicsn everywhere else. Makes sense to me nowadays! But I turned out yeller-dawg Dem anyways. They jus’ couldn’t beat any sense into me, it seems.

So one way or t’other this blog thing is fun. I don’t have to worry about anybody reading it or commenting on how dumb it is or how stoopidly opinionated I am! I’ve reconciled my beliefs with myself long ago, when I left organized religion. I always was raised by the Big Ten as my good ‘Publican friend Brenda always called ’em. Whoever put ‘em down in stone knew what they were talking about as far as life laws, except for the G_d part. And I gotta admit, I covet a whole buncha stuff all around. So even if I think they’re good rules, I’m not good enough to follow all of ‘em. Regardless, those rules and the beatitudes were what I thought all Christian Protestants like me were supposed to live by. When I was a little kid and still mostly a virgin, I thought one day, if I cleaned my act up and kept it clean, I could be like the next Jesus. Why? ‘Cause I got the religious brainwashing and having a lot of Jewish classmates and the American mantra ‘you can be anything you want if you work hard enough for it’ all mixed up together. You gotta realize for an eight year old to realize he can’t be the Second Coming was pretty cathartic for me! But when I look in the mirror, I’m ever so grateful not to have that burden on my old stooped shoulders! I’ll leave that for Holy Rollers and the former 45th President. 

Well, I gotta go work on the Great American Novel some more, or else add som more wisdom to my neverending story (aka my memoir!) so I shall terminate my ruminations today and hopefully have more inspiring words of spiritual encouragement shortly. Damn, but this is fun!