Update, Opinions, News...

Ahhh, it feels good to be human again. After nearly a week of being very sick, it feels good to be fever-free and healthy enough to sip on a (caffeine-free) Pepsi. My fever broke last night, finally coming under 100 degrees around dinnertime, and normal by midnight. So of course I'm thoroughly estatic. But I still have a sore throat (which happens to me every time I get a cold, my glands swell up towards the end), and my cough will soon go away too. But even my sore neck from having to sleep all sorts of ways (or try to sleep at least) for three days is pretty much gone too. I took a long hot soak this morning to treat my body for enduring the bone-biting cold chills and the sweating, but seeing as the mucus is breaking up, I'm sneezing (which seems to be normal for me LOL), and I have the random bout of ice cold hands, I seem to be 90% normal finally!
Of course, my PDA had to act up during my bout with this friggin cold. I think it's fussing with me because I don't turn it on before I unplug the power supply from it. I did a test today, turning it on before I unplugged it from the charger, and it cooperated, but when I don't (which is my habit), it tries to tell me I only have 25% of my battery charge left when I'd just taken it off the charger! And this isn't the smaller battery I gripe about all the time either, this is my master battery that under normal conditions would probably go a whole day without needing charged. But if this is what is going on, it might also explain some of the battery issues I've had with the other battery as well. I'm not too worried about this right now, I have much bigger items on my plate.
Alright, now some news.
Did any of you watch CNN and see that machine catch fire on the hockey rink? I only caught a glimpse of it... Was a "coming up next" thing that I ended up missing the whole story about, but I THINK they said "near Philadelphia" so I have to assume it was on the local professional hockey team's rink. What a place to have a fire!
And a couple of things I wanted to talk about for a while but haven't as I've been sick and offline so much lately.
So Hillary's NOT the front runner in Iowa now (that's the first state that holds primary elections in the US for you international readers, though they do their elections by caucus, not polling). And Giulanni is in trouble too... I'm not sure which is more frightening, President Hillary Clinton or President Barack Obama. And now Republican candidate Mike Huckabee has said he wants to abolish the IRS. Ok fine, we all would like to get rid of taxes. But, Mr. Huckabee, how do you plan to keep our airspace secure, fix our federal roads and bridges, help out after natural disasters, and all of those other things our tax dollars pay for that few of us mind paying for? I'd much rather pay taxes than have to worry every time I am in a car driving over a bridge or every time I fly. And let's not forget, it's OUR tax dollars that pays for wars. I hate to stretch the facts here, but I think it's quite clear that cutting taxes altogether would strip us of our military therefore making everyone come home, overwhelming our economy and with Osama still loose and Al-Qaida still alive, we'd be MUCH less safe than we were even on the day before September 11. You're in my vomit bag, Mr. Huckabee, right with Obama and Clinton. Ignorance, stupidity, and greed belong there.
And what's with this British teacher that almost got 30 lashes for letting her student in Sudan name their teddy bear Mohammed? I'm going to take a wee different angle than you might expect here, because this is a CHILD we are talking about. Kids generally don't name their bears something as a taunt. It's usually something that means something to them. So for a child to want to name their bear Mohammed likely wasn't making fun of the prophet. It'd be like a little American girl naming her doll "baby Jesus." It's love and adoration, not taunting.
Is it almost over for former border patrol agents Ramos and Campeon? Could it possibly be true that they soon may get a second - and fair - trial? Or even better, released and not tried a second time? A drug dealer crossed our border illegally with drugs, and wouldn't stop for them - and I'm sure they're bilingual and spoke to this person in both languages - so they made him stop. THEY DID THEIR JOB. So why are they in prison serving 10 years - in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT? Why? This drug dealer should be in prison for life for all the crimes he committed and all the trauma he's brought upon these two agents. One of the agent's wife came out of today's hearing hopeful, and for her husband and his fellow agent's sake, I hope she's right. It's time they're free, and to be free by Christmas would be the best present we could give them now.
So, what have I been up to lately?
1. I started a cross-stitch scale football field. Each square is one yard, to make it easy. I've got one endzone done almost, it will be once I sit down with it again, but I didn't have the energy this week.
2. I played a few PDA games I haven't played in a long time. I have one game that I've gotten to level 76 and I haven't gotten to 10,000 points yet! It's a very low point, high strategy game.
3. I worked a day, then had job apparently fall through. The poor woman had issues just collapse in on her at once. I'm going to get an update soon one way or another. I'd love to get back into that job.
4. I did 2 essential loads of laundry day before my cold struck.
5. I dealt with first ice of season by staying indoors because it was just too cold. Turns out I should've stayed in today too as it was windy and even colder! But luckily I'd only gone out to take out the trash, put an envelope in the mail and check my mail all at once, so it wasn't too bad, plus I had on my better half's new (well, rescued) parka, so I was more than adequately protected from the bone-biting wind, which at times gusted over 40mph. Luckily as well, all the stuff is on the south side of the building, and the winds were very stiffly out of the north, so I was sheltered from the worst of the wind!
So that's what's been on my mind and going on lately, sorry for the kind of wandering in the email, but between the coughing and combining drafts of emails, I think it's understandable.