Let's Take A Break ...

... take some time ...

... you see, everything is going to be alright!

So let's see how all this flows tonight. I can't tell you why I am up tonight because I would rather be asleep! So I will weave a little about my personal series on 'General Orders' in with my 'Random Thoughts'!

LIKE HIM OR NOT

You have to come away very impressed with Bobby Jindal. But the folks in Vegas were impressed with Flagg as well ... anywho, I think the GOP are rushing to 'catch up' to the social shift in politics. What I think is going happen, is that previously disinterested people will become a little more active in their politics. Their immediate future has taken a considerable hit, and they have to listen to their children more, because THEIR CHILDREN'S future is being jeopardized by their parents inaction, politcally.


So rushing a person of color up as the GOP has done with their new party chairman, and giving Gov. Jindal 'at bats' in the majors, could be their immediate undoing. But that is just me. Still, I was impressed by his profile on '60 Minutes'. Piece of triva ... I admired President Reagan like Gov. Jindal did when he was younger!

Yet, not being a constituent of his, I can only see things that have me question his ability on the national stage. Even though his turn on '60 Minutes' was mostly positive, there were several 'Mark things' would keep me from being a fan of his.

I will stop thinking of him as 'Kenneth the Page'! I will ask him if he knows the frequency ... hey, Kenneth didn't know that either! The cat should have been asking Bobby Jindal instead of Dan!



MORE TV

Didn't like the movie 'Desperation' when it came on network TV ... and it is still as bad as I thought it was before. This despite having solid character actors play in the roles. Thanks to Beth, I now have a copy of that book, which if you let the critics tell you, wasn't one of King's best. Now, I would agree that the book he wrote as Richard Bachman, 'The Regulators' which is a companion to 'Desperation' wasn't all that, but personally, I got a lot out of Desperation.

Not going to get into the morality play about it, only that some of what it was about lodged in my head. There is a line in the book about 'the spritual state of unbelief is desperation'. I think that is pretty much accurate. I think that even the big time scientists, who persist in their 'trial and error' method, is operating on faith that eventually they will find what they are looking for.

I had wanted to call my other journal, 'Scriptures in the Wasteland', which I cropped from the book 'Desperation' as well as 'Friends on the ...' , but Nebraska objected MOST strenuously! She felt that for something to be called that would be a form of sacrilege. Doing the etymology on the word (winks at Beth!), I agreed with her, and for her, I changed the name of my journal. Wasn't worth offending a friend as dear as she ... so it was a small thing to do.

What you do in life, is representative of what you believe, even if the diety you put your faith in, is yourself. I always had thought that if you can't believe in yourself, then how can you believe ANYTHING? If you don't believe in something, then you will believe in and follow just about anything.

THE AMAZING RACE

There is a older brother, younger sister team competing, and they nearly made a critical error. Though they are both super smart and academically and professionally accomplished, IMO, the dynamic hinders their personal relationship is the basic older sibling - younger sibling dance.

The older brother thinks he is always right, and tonight they nearly suffered for it. They were supposed to follow a marked path to their next clue. But the trail they followed was marked by arrows that weren't of the scheme used by the show. They were the only team to make such an error.

I had no problem with the big brother taking the lead, and running up the wrong path. But there were serveral key observations made by the little sister, from the fact that they saw no one else as well as no markers, to the seeming illogic of having seen signs in the 'official' colors on previous legs, to now follow signs of a strange color.

MAYBE I AM GOING TO CHAT UP SOME COMMENTS

Okay, the reasons that I am going thru my 'General Orders', is that I am in a process of finding an improved 'formula'. I have gone from someone I 'should have married' (Pecan Sandie), to some one I wanted to marry (Tee Jay), to someone I gave an engagement ring to (Mookie). Each step to me, is just what I am making it out to be, a 'walking down' of getting what I want in a partner. Perhaps I need to tweak things, not a major overhaul. I do think that will be all that I need to 'take my act on the road', you feel me?

As to the 'sexism' in this ... let me just say that a car has one driver. Who ever gets behind the wheel, is the driver. Now, I would like to think I can 'drive a car' (trust that is PURELY metaphorical ... not allowed to drive a ball down the range!), but using the example of the tv show, I will show how I expect to handle myself in a similair situation in a relationship.

To me, there was nothing wrong with brother and sister team intially going to wrong way ... I lead, you follow, savvy? And there was nothing wrong with the sister being 'subservient' to her brother and following. Now, when they had went a piece, and the sister argued for a change in course, it was the brother who was now in the role of being 'subservient', because as the leader, he had to also make sure HER needs were being met, and not just feed his ego.

Sort of like when I was in Chicago with Nebraska, her objection was enough for me stand down, because I would not have put myself in that position, of being in a strange city with someone upon whose judgement I couldn't rely on. (though for all that, SHE was in the lead all the way!)

Were that us on the show, her first objection to our route, with the same logic, would have made me change my mind. Period. It was well reasoned and sensible. The brother was 'off on some other stuff', stuff other than doing something good for the team ... he instead nearly 'cost the team the game'.

AIRING OUT THE APARTMENT

Before I get on to General Order #2, there is another aspect of the comments left on my last entry, that I can tie into this, about the use of generalization and finish off the 'practice' part of subservience, as I see it.