Yes I know

Yes I know, I have not been writing here in this blog. Guess I have not had time or just have not had anything worth writing about. Went snowshoeing last Saturday and believe it or not I did fall on my butt or anything. Knee felt fine. Supposed to go again this weekend up to Dream Lake area in RMNP, but the wind looks like it is really going to be really bad, so I do not know if we are going to make a go of it. If not , I will find me some place to go snowshoeing on Saturday if I have to go up to Cameron Pass area. I have one area I want to go and get some pictures of the Crags from a different point of view.

Just my 2 cents....

Another State Down

Well here from the front of the bus, must we endure another 8 months of agony, listening about Obama and Clinton and McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Paul, Thompson. We are really scrapping the bottom of the barrel for leadership in this country. Like I said before and I will keep saying, give a national primary where everyone votes and we are done. If no one gets a majority (where a majority is 51%), not just the most votes, then we have a runoff in two or three weeks. The top two vote getters are President and Vice President. That way the people have spoken clearly and with authority...And lets add a twist to the whole picture, we add a binding None of the Above (NOTA) to the ballot and if NOTA wins, then we start over with none of the ones that got beat by NOTA.

Now that would be something, run for office and get your butt beat by NOTA. What a hoot.

This is my two cents and that will get you a cup of joe...

A Wounded Duck

Waking up this morning was a new adventure. Sometime during the night, I "tweaked" my knee again. It was hurting bad enough that I had to go see a doctor about it for a change. My feeling is that something is wrong with my ACL or PCL, since that is where the chronic and the acute pain comes from the majority of the time. If it was cartliage or scar tissue pinching, it would be hurting more to the front or on side where I had the surgery 27 years ago.

I want to get my knee well finally so I can go hiking and snowshoeing here soon. I am missing too many good pictures out there not being about to get out and go for a long hike in the mountains. I want to learn how to snowshoe also. Realy don't care for skiing or snowboarding at all. Too damn expensive and just to many people....

Well that is all for now.

My 2 cents and that will get you a cup of joe.

The Race for Prez

Why are we the only major country in the world that elects their so called leaders in such a long and drawn out process with these caucuses and so called primaries. Then we have a big convention at the cost of the taxpayers to the tune of over 50,000,000 dollars for each convention. And if you do not belong to one of the two major parties, you do not have a chance of a snowball in a hot oven of even getting elected, much less heard, unless you are a very rich person and willing to spend a lot of that money on a losing cause.

I believe that we need to have a national primary day where the voters go to the polls with voter id enforced and no party registration allowed. On this day, the country is shutdown. No stores are open, no business takes place at all. We go to the polls, vote for who we want to represent us in the country's leadership, be it from the lowest offices to the highest office in the country. People have too many excuses to not vote, but then moan and complain about who is elected.

Folks, I spent over 9 years of my life defending this country, time away from my family, put my life along with crewmates of mine on the line every day and we have people that want to just say it is too hard to vote. BS to that. Remove all the excuses and get off your butt and vote.

This country was founded on the principal of "one man one vote" We need to take the time, reflect on what our founding fathers envisioned for us and paid for with their blood and bodies over the last 200 plus years of this country's history.

Give us a national primary day with it being a national day of closure with absolutely no businesses open, yes not even Walmart or grocery stores. Plan ahead, you can survive for one day with Walmart. Do not call it a holiday, you have a duty to go vote that has been paid for in blood by others in the past, today, and in the future. Eliminate the electoral college then on Election Day go vote for your leaders.

Just my 2cents.

Till tomorrow

It Should Be Simple

Blogging, this should be simple. It is typing letters in whitespace on box, right. Not a chance. I had an animated gif I linked to on the web and I had a heck of time getting it off this page. Next is to get it off the profile totally. Should be simple, but it is not being that way.

Till tomorrow...

First Post of New Year

Today, I am going to try to write something new in this blog at least once per day. This is the one for today.

A book I am reading on time management says that it takes 21 days for something to become a habit. Well, lets see, if I write here for 21 days straight then this should become a habit.

Now lets get down to happen today. I am trying to get stuff so I can go snowshoe comfortably in the Rocky Mountain National Park (East side or West side). Today I went to Bass Pro Shop in Denver and got me some middleweight polartec thermal underwear shirts and pants. When I was growing up as a kid in Mississippi, heck we called those things "longjohns". I still call them LongJohns, but now they are fancy LongJohns. I also got me some nice heavy socks to wear with my boots that I bought for hiking, but have not even wore them yet. Just took them out of the box today and tried them on again wit the new socks and those socks were the right ones to get. Now we'll see if they keep my feet warm and dry.

Went up to the east side of RMNP as far as Glacier Gorge. Spraque Lake had a bunch of people on it ice skaing. First time I had seen that there. Came home and fixed myself a semi-traditional New Years Day meal. I had pork chops in BBQ sauce, rice and corn. I tell you, I can cook when I really want to. And I am really get tired of ewating out every night, so look for me to cook more often.

Well guys, that is about it.