I'm back. Really... Is anybody still there???

Well, after disappearing for more than a month, I"m back. A lot happened, travelled back east to Virginia for 2 weeks to help take care of my second youngest, and work was Work. I've had more adventures in Handymanland, this time involving basement water and drywall repair, and I think I've gotten the whole writing thing figured out. (Okay, maybe not the last...)

On the subject of writing... Imperfect hope still hold my primary attention, though I've not done any work on it for most of the summer. No changes to the major storyline, which I suppose is good news, considering I usually change everything when I come back to a project like this. I'll post more on writing later as I get more into the rhythm of it...

I've always felt that blogging should be more than an open diary of what's happening this week, and as I've looked back on the last few posts, I've realized that that is exactly what I've been doing. It's a factor of my mindset of the moment. Instead, I'd prefer blogging to be an expression of creative exercise. Pick something in my brain and run with it. Preferably scissors, point up. Figuratively. So.....

You can't escape politics right now, every other ad on tv is something attacking somone else over their position. I dislike politics. Or at least, the hatred that comes with todays version of it. Express an opinion at work that someone else disagrees with, and you get a five minute diatribe on how stupid you are for believing that. Dare to offer a counterpoint to someone elses view, and the venom that follows is beyond belief.

Part of my problem is that i'm a member of the most hated group of people, the (whisper it...) Moderates. I don't buy lock stock and barrel the arguments of either party, and that pisses them off. Just because I believe in strong national security doesn't mean I want to gut the educational system, just because I'm pro-education doesn't mean I advocate free government care for life for everyone (except those who make more than a nationally decided upon threshhold of success). Energy policy, Social Issues, so on. Mine is a pathway of deliberate, reasoned choices, rather than blind adherance to party line.

I was very disappointed in the tone of what has been coming out of both campaigns. But it's typical, I guess. There's not much I can do about it. Or is there... I have to admit that I tend to bury my head under a rock when the mud starts slinging, maybe I need to throw a few rocks myself at the mudslingers. Wonder it that'd do any good.....

Anyway, next post will be about fun. Anything but politics. I hope.....

TTFN,
Jim