Rainy Day

Finally had some rain today. It's been "damp" on and off but we had a good rain today with more on the way. I'm not usually one to make talk of the weather unless I don't know someone or just have nothing of quality to say. It's one of those things you generally talk to anyone about at any time.However, with the drought we had over the summer and all of the wildfires, it's just nice to have a little rain. I just had to get that out of the way.

Had a nice weekend at my Mom's. Got hang out with some old friends. It was my friend Sisco's birthday so we went out and had some drinks. ....Ok, we had a lotB of drinks but we were safe and had a designated driver, my lovely wife (thank you baby). Also, got to see my Uncle Pee Wee. Great guy. He has some acreage with lots of mesquite trees that he has to constantly work at to keep it maintained. Needless to say, he has plenty of good mesquite for smoking. Since I typically cook on the pit every Sunday, he chopped me up a bunch of discs to soak and use for smoking. I really appreciate my family. They are great.
Spent some time at my Bro and sis in-law's house and got to see my nephew. Little guy is solid as a rock. Not fat or anything, mind you, just solid and PACKED with energy. I need to figure out how to can and sell that stuff. I could make a fortune.

Watched some football. It seem that the two teams I like least in the league (if I could throw the EAgles in there it would be a perfect storm) made it to the Super Bowl. I now have only 2 reasons to watch; commercials and to see if my squares pay off. OF course, I don't have to watch the game for any of that but I can't NOT watch the Super Bowl. I was really pulling for the 49ers but that got shot to hell late in the 4th.

In other news Newt Gingrich has all but erased Mitt Romney's 23-percentage-point lead of a week ago among Republican voters nationally, and the two candidates are now essentially tied, at 29% for Romney and 28% for Gingrich. Congratulations! You two Washington shitheels are officially approved by almost one-third of half of the goat pinching states you're so aggressively flaunted your corporate thievery earnings and bribery donations in. Come on to Texas. Yeah, we've had some dumb ones like any other state, but we've got some real smart one's too. Take Dr. Ron Paul for instance. He hasn't had much media coverage and some don't take him seriously but he has some good ideas AND he's the only one running who has not taken any corporate superpac money, has not signed up for his congressional pension(12 years in Congress mind you), never accepted welfare or medicaid when he was a practicing Dr., Instead he lowered his fees to whatever his patients could pay. He actually served his country rather than his country club. I could go on all night. Hope I have not stirred up any political fires. I doubt it at this point, such low traffic, not worried about anyone reading my blog.