Blogging has been zero due to extreme heat and a full schedule.
I have a long red blotch on my ankles that itchs like mad from fire ant bites - apparently they penetrated through a hole in my sock as I was walking the district.
It's finally a bit cooler for a few days, after hitting 110 heat index for days on end. My nose looks like Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer from keeping my car top open for ventilation (A/C is still out and needs to be converted from an R 12 to one of the new systems that doesn't kill ozone - not sure it's worth it).
A client needed some help so ended up going to L.A. on a case (a big company attacking his little one, the usual) - but in this economy cash is tight so he could pay only part of it. The rest he wanted to pay via a barter with a third party --to get me something I need, a pickup. Well, the pickup looks great but instead of running well it has a dead engine.
It reminds me of the depression stories. "Thanks Doc for your help, but gee, we've got no cash -- but we can give you a chicken and a goat!"
Well, I didn't get a goat but I did get a pickup that doesn't (yet) work. Amazing. I took it. I figured "Half a truck is better than none." In time I can always get a motor in it and will enjoy driving something that hauls my stuff and has a working A/C!
While I'm trying to survive and take in chickens and pickups for fees, the other two candidates have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars - one has spent a million -- yet both of them have gone DOWN in the polls! Amazing.....
With less than $10,000 I - the 3rd candidate-have been going UP (I had no where else to go).
I found out that the incumbent polls without using my name (giving him false numbers since it only compares him vs a Democrat) and the Dems poll using the independent me -- and it shows my being on the ballot has dropped the incumbent below 49% without my even making a phone call or a mailing.
Not to bad when you running against someone who has been in power as long as Saddam and has more money than some countries!
Tells me the boy's in a heap of trouble. We could yet see a David topple a Goliath.
We could use one of those stories, especially when you scan the awful headlines - Iraq is still a hellhole, politicians are being overly partisan and the whole world really needs a makeover and fresh faces in leadership...
We'll see what happens. I have to go check, after a long absence, the blog of the Iraqi girl who lives in Baghdad - to get the real facts of what is happening over there.
I don't think our gov't or media really gives us an accurate picture than someone living in it....more later, when the ant bites subside.
Mike
