Candidate Confusion

Whether we are into politics or not, we have all heard the endless banter about elections. Maybe we already have in our minds exactly who we are going to vote for. But here is a really helpful website to find out which candidate best supports the issues you support. It’s a great way to learn the issues and to learn the candidates better. Scouts honor, it’s totally unbiased. Make sure you're voting for the right person! We’re all intelligent people so promote smart voting.

(Sorry if that sounded like a sales pitch) But honestly the website is really cool. You answer how you feel on a list of issues and how strongly you feel on that issue. If you don’t know the issue you can click on a link that gives you a brief synopsis. It will total a percentage of which candidates best match your survey and who is at the bottom. Really cool. Maybe? Just a little??


Candidate Calculator
http://www.vajoe.com/candidate_calculator.html

Like a Rolling Stone

When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose..


I think I loved this movie so much because I imagine jumping in my car and leaving everything behind terribly enticing. Mark Twain says its “lights out for the territory.” Steinbeck calls it the “itch” we all feel or should feel to escape the monotony and cruelty of our complicatedly simple lives. Dylan a rolling stone. I’ve already been tempted before by both Steinbeck and Dylan to travel North America with my RV, my camera and my guitar.

This movie identifies both the urge we all have and the problem we all share, even if its only occasionally, in our culture and the urge to step out of it to a different reality. It’s not jumping in a van and living like a hippy but identifying your significance or lack of in nature. On his journey he shares his friendship and philosophy with several on the road, learns about their lives and helps with their problems.

Into the Wild: A couple of life lessons:
We must all set out on our journey to discover our small place in the big world
We need the help and friendship of those around us and vise versa

Just a Fat Kid at Heart...

I think I’m the fat kid at work. Anything the Chef throws in front of me I consume. I leave work with an armful of food. Pretty positive I disgust and shock my employees with the plates of truffle cake and the platters of treats I devour. Today I walked out of the freezer with a 3 gallon carton of Dreyers chocolate ice cream that they said I could take home. After everyone was done laughing and pointing at the fat kid, they asked if I really was going to eat the whole thing. I said I could. So a couple of guys at work said they’d pool their money if I ate the whole thing by Friday before work. Two days. Three gallons. Can I do it?!

Closing Thoughts: I feel like my young body is keeping from being all things I truly want to be… just a fat old man.