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Ken fussed at me last night for neglecting my blog. I didn’t even know he read it that often 😛

This month and next month are birthday months for us. November has Mom, Pam and Bebe celebrating (23, 29, 30th respectively) December has Eddie, Frances, my friend Janet and Randy (2, 4, 17, 22nd respectively). I’m probably off on some of those dates by a day or two, so if you know better, don’t hesitate to correct me 🙂 (Thanks Judy!)

News from the Middle East is still depressing. They are still killing each other with seeming abandon. What are they going to do when all the people are dead and they only have leaders to kill? While I’ve thought all along that it was a major mistake for the US to get involved in those squabbles, we messed up and did anyway. Now we have to decide if we throw in the towel and retreat with tails tucked or suck it up and go do the job right. It’s only pride that even has us considering the second option. We are not omnicient when it comes to how the world should be run and I’m a live-and-let-live sort of person. I really don’t want any more blood shed over who is right or wrong in this conflict. It’s gone beyond a possible terrorism threat to the US. Now they’re just terrorizing each other and any foreigner that gets in the way is just a by-product. We really have no choice but to let Iran and Syria straighten out the mess and it’s really in their best interests to do so.

As for Israel and Palestine – well, I used to think Israel held the high ground with respect to trying to live the Golden Rule, but they have lost sight of that and have lowered themselves to the Palestinian level of an eye for an eye. People — is this really solving ANYTHING???? No!! It’s not!! It’s just resulting in MORE PEOPLE DYING — people who are not soldiers, not politicians  — just ordinary people trying to go about their daily lives. STOP IT! STOP BOMBING YOUR NEIGHBORS. 🙁

Well, I feel my blood pressure rising. Need to find another subject to talk about 😛

Ken had a phone call from the Richard Petty Experience last night. They told him he won tickets to his choice of Orlando or Las Vegas to drive a race car on the track. The kicker was, we had to pay $248 for it (still not bad considering the RPE is around $500 per person and this was for two tickets so was a $1000 value for just the drive alone). They wanted a credit card number over the phone right then. Ken said no, he never gives out his cc number over the phone (GOOD FOR YOU!!!). Of course they said too bad and we said too bad.

I bought a new camera the other day. It’s a Kodak Z740 which has 10x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom. My old Kodak only had 3x Optical and 2x digital which didn’t give me much zooming power and I want to get better photos of the birds that come to the feeders, etc. I hope to have before this weekend so I can practice with it before taking it with me to the dog show.

Well, guess I should actually do some work today….

Love to all (but most to my hubby who keeps me on the straight and narrow),

Margaret