DISPATCHES FROM THE GHOST MOOSE

the beat goes on.  like walking on a treadmill...we keep doing the same thing, and ending up at the same place.  and I didn't win the powerball drawing.  so, it sucks all around today.  as we charge headlong toward the fiscal cliff, we need to blame the person that was in office the last 4 years for growing the deficit and spending uncontrollably. http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/84364.html but really, isn't it easier to just blame bush?  at least we know our leader is a grounded everyman. http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/11/29/obama-slated-hawaii-cliff/ we all deserve a 20 day vacation in hawaii, don't we? we brought this upon ourselves.  and we must eat our peas.

November almost over...hey wait, I wrote about that a few dozen times already.  the next bubble...student loans... http://finance.yahoo.com/news/student-loan-debt-rising-often-002318821.html really an ingenious strategy...make college very expensive, force the students to take loans to go to college, then make the student loans the only loan type not cleared in bankruptsy.  the banks get their shit hooks into the youth and have them captive for 20 - 30 years after they earn their degrees in art history...what's that???  I need a masters degree in art history to get a job doing art history things????  why then I will just take out more loans and pay them back when I become an art historian..... what a crock.  and we let it happen.

November is almost over.  To continue to beat the proverbial dead horse, hard to believe how quickly time flies.  too quickly.  the annual fishing trip is now 3 months back....a quarter year.  the sands pass through the hourglass faster all the time.  kind of a shame to waste those precious moments at work when we could be drinking and making merry.......hey...let's all try to use the phrase "making merry" a lot.  what sayeth you?  anyway, after a 5 day weekend, back to work.  like I never left...no one missed me from what I can tell.  of course, I did not miss them either, so we're even.  probably gained 5 lbs over the weekend.  some real uninspired writing today.  why don't we all take off work early and make merry? 

I had the good sense to take today off and ease back into the mess tomorrow.  This reminds me of when I was off 4 years ago.  sitting at the computer, looking out the window watching the high school, then middle school, then elementary school buses come and pick up the kids for school.  Watching the people who have jobs leave for the day.  Nice to know I have a job to go to tomorrow.  always good to be busy.  but for today, I can get a few things accomplished that I could not if I was working.  first stop, health club.  there is never much of a crowd there during work hours...so the steam room will be empty. I noticed that in the last month, the Drudge report has had over a billion and a half views.  I had 1700.  so, his readership is a million times more than mine.  of course, he writes no content and just reposts links, so I have that over him.  have a good monday. I plan on doing just that.

dragging my feet on going to the health club.  I need to find a spark.  and turn it into a blaze - I have turned into a real lardass.  but, lifting and only lifting and not doing any cardio has made my guns bigger.  maybe I can overdevelop my chest and arms and then my big gut will not be as obvious.  or, I can eat and drink less and maybe lose my gut...I have to think that one over.  after the holiday binges.  yea...in January I will really do it this time.  no carbs, no beer, just steamed green vegetables...wait, what?  I was just thinking out loud.  I wasn't really planning to do that.  I have earned the right to enjoy the deadly sin of sloth.  my son is doing very well playing basketball.  he didn't play at all the last game and was bummed.  he played most of the game last night and did well - rebounds, steals, good defense.  nice to see him dedicate himself to the sport he likes.  at his age, I had t...

One holiday down, a few more to go in the next 5 weeks.  Thanksgiving was nice, now the cold weather to deal with.  good thing we played golf Sunday because today would not have been too enjoyable to play.  the news last night had the usual coverage of the idiots lined up to shop at midnight. How little must their time we worth to waste it lined up for hours to buy cheap crap from China?  you see fights, stampedes, people showing their worst side.  I just don't get it.  I suppose I never will.  we spend a day giving thanks for what we have, and for families, and then leave right after the meal that took time to prepare and stand in a parking lot.  must be the direction the country is headed.  we are hopelessly lost, I fear.  or is it just me?

Ready to call it a week.   I am bushed.  ready for a few days off.  like the rest of the working stiffs, I suppose.  Short weeks at work just mean you cram more work into less hours.  and it takes its toll.  jjj resigned today...just a few weeks after winning by a large margin.  maybe his constituants wanted a criminal representing them.  I saw a story that any criticism of obama's nominee was racist and sexist....and another story that said the reason the repubs lost is the party is getting older and whiter.  imagine the uproar......nah.   this is a new amerika.  on the fast track to who knows where.  probably not for the better. anyway, I have nothing to say today.  then again, how would a reader know the difference?  and make sure tomorrow you eacho peez.