As you might have guessed, I have pretty much remained a busy guy these past few months. Things at work are on the intense side as we try to meet aggressive schedules with limited manpower, and I've had to stay late on some nights and go in on weekends. This is my first full weekend off since......crud, I can't remember when, and when I was having full weekends off before things got busy the weather was either really nice and/or I was busy doing yardwork as that the condition of the yard was irritating me. My yard still irritates me, but not as much as it was before, although I still have three diseased prickly pear cacti to dig out as well as that damnedable desert verbena which is growing around my palm tree in the front. Fortunately I have one healthy prickly pear and I can harvest some pads off that one and get some new prickly going where the older ones were removed.
I haven't forgotten about that "money" series of posts that I had started, and the next two articles will need some further research on my part before I post them. I do hope that you find them interesting reading when I post them. There will be at least two more articles after that that will be money-related. Meantime, let's move on to the odds and ends.
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I never thought I would ever hear myself (read myself?) saying this here, but I'm going to announce my formal endorsement of Mitt Romney for President. Yes, I have had serious misgivings about him in the past, but as I have watched him and his campaign, I'm going to admit that he's won me over.
I was all prepared to vote for one of the third party candidates, but Mitt captured my attention when he named Paul Ryan as his running mate. I would have been tempted to bet half my coin collection that he would have picked someone like Rob Portman, but he didn't. When the speculation was building, Mr. Ryan's name came up, and I was thinking, that's the guy he should pick. Paul Ryan knows more about the budget process than most folks on the Hill, and plus, I think the biggest national security issue right now is government spending. We are fast approaching a point where the interest on the national debt will overcome defense and entitlement spending. At that point it doesn't matter squat if you have government-provided health care as that when your debt goes past the $20 trillion limit the government's going to have a hard time financing the debt as that the credit ratings are well down the commode.
But there have been a few other considerations coming into play here. Mitt Romney is coming across to me as a class act. I read an article in the American Rifleman some time ago which examined Governor Romney's stance on the Second Amendment. Massachusetts firearm laws are draconian when compared to most of the other states, and I read details of some needed reforms to those laws that he was able to get into place while Governor.
Mitt Romney's also has several years experience in the private sector. I personally don't have a problem with him being in charge of Bain Capital. I see that as an asset. I also see his experience with the Winter Olympics as being an asset. Now there are some out there who might have an issue with him being a Mormon, but personally I would rather have a Mormon in the big chair as opposed to someone else who worships himself as his own God.
But what's really driving my endorsement of Mitt Romney is this: we can't afford four more years of Obama. He ran on a promise of cutting the deficit in half and he failed miserably in this. Sixteen trillion dollars of debt greatly concerns me. We have to do something about it. Step number one is getting people back to work, and increasing tax collections by adding taxpayers as opposed to adding taxes.
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One pursuit that I have enjoyed years past has been songwriting. After I got married in 1991 I stopped writing lyrics and upon moving to Arizona in 1999 after my marital breakup, I found that I had writer's block and couldn't write lyrics anymore, and my ability at musical composition had gotten away from me too.
I think that's about to change. I have spent the past few months on and off working on a new song, inspired of course by life, which will be called "Get Me Out of Here". As is the case with some songs as well as this one, I have found myself going back over and over again trying to get the lyrics where I want them. When it comes to writing lyrics and music, you either have something put together in ten minutes or you find yourself putting a year into it.
Last Sunday I finally got the lyrics polished and refined, and just maybe tomorrow I might pick up the guitar and start working on a chord structure. I see this one as being a rocker.
I also want to write a waltz sometime, and I've already got the title of that song picked out and I've thrown down some lyrics. I'm not going to give away what that song will be about, but it will be a funny song.
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