Got the Blahs

Not the blues, the blahs. I could not wake up today-let the dogs out, propped the door open so they could find me and dozed multiple times. Missed the big branding down at the corral- shucky darn. Daryne did bring Tye and McAye up to see me. Tye, with the help of a consulting psychiatrist from NYC is really making progress. At age six he is finally sleeping through the night with an eight pound blanket (where can I find one of those?) and his speech has recognizable words. Very hopeful. McAye on the other hand is no bigger than a minute and scary sharp: "Slow down Tye, so we can understand." We had a nice visit. Tye pushed my lawn mower down to the corral twice. He has always been pushing things- part of the syndrome, the shrink says- let him do it. His parents are much relieved to have this much understanding.

It is late in life to have people still disappointing me. A close friend started up on wondering if we would have a N------ in the Whitehouse. I would not let her go on. His Harvard Degree after coming from hard times, to her no degree is somehow trumped by skin color? Some days I think three electoral votes for Wyoming is too many. The problem with this kind of thinking is that nobody is safe: Blind prejudice about skin color can morph to ethnicity, to religion, to gender, to sexual preference, to economic standing, to blue eyes or brown eyes. And I find these attitudes almost too much to get over. I try but sometimes I find that a few words that cross a civilized boundary just ruins everything: they weren't who you thought they were. I will keep t-r-y-i-n-g but writing people off seems to get easier by the year.

The hinge on my mainstay cell phone got cracked on one side. I called about a replacement and they want $150. Superglue seems to be working in the face of that! I have other phones and ways to work around whatever happens but this too is blah making. No more carrying the phone in the pants pocket. I actually have a new deep discount earned on one but I am waiting for the new round of fancy shmancy phones to come out. Everytime Apple puts out a new phone the competitors go nuts. And you know, there are major drawbacks to every single one of them. I have wanted to keep a tri-mode phone (old and new tech) because I hit a lot of rural areas in my travels but the old technology is supposed to go away in early 2009. We will see. Superglue is cheap and we are about 7 months away from the deadline.