more attention span

My normal morning proceedure is to get up, turn on the coffee maker, take the puppies for their morning walk, turn on the TV to Fox news, and then sit at my computer to get caught up with what's happening in cyberspace. Part of that is to create the day's blog post. Of course there is always pressure to make the blog informative and entertaining, and hopefully educational as well. After all, if we don't learn, we don't progress, which brings to mind one of my favorite lines, "if the opposite of "pro" is "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?? ( http://www.instantrimshot.com/ )

Ok, moving on, while sitting here, and watching the news, Geraldo mentioned that we as a nation have a short attention span, when it comes to national politics. I think he was referring to our lack of ability to remember what our national leaders do in the conduct of their jobs, particularly when we go to the polls, thus confirming that my favorite malady affects our national politics as well.

On a totally different subject, it is right now, ten degrees BELOW zero in Bismark N.D.!!! Why does anyone live there? I can't figure it out when they could be here in the beautiful sunshine.

But, we digress (another symptom) from our rambling ruminations. (Look that one up!!) It is Friday and we need to plan out the weekend. The weather forecast may not cooperate with waxing the motorhome so we may just curl up around a good book.

One final thought on a Fox news bit: they were just talking about a new phenomena appearing in the Florida real estate market known as "home managers". As I understand it, a home manager is hired to live in a home which is for sale in the very depressed Florida market. The reason being that a lived in home typically sells more quickly and for a higher price than an empty one. The home manager typically pays the utilities and about 30% of the going rent which is cheap for the property they are living in. Down side is that you never know when you are going to have to move. Thus.........yep, you guessed it, have a short attention span and all is well.