Shift change! My friend has taken back over "my" street music spot and I'm out of work/play. Total poverty? Out of Money? time for a vacation!
I've thrown stuff in a backpack and begun a journey. Hello DFW/d...for a minute anyhow.
Goodbye Austin. Please fix you A/C by fall.
Off to the Rainbow Gathering. Its in Wyoming if you want to come along. I may be off in the woods for a month in a week or two.
After a brief stop in DFW/Denton I should be hitching up highway 287 to Denver, then off to Boulder then Wyoming for the Rainbow, then (long time elapses) to Burning Man (I believe I may have left $280 up my ass somewhere) then??? All plans subject to chaos and whim
Today a double storm cell came in dropping the big drops, twisting its own clouds from thunderhead to coral. The lightning licked our power grid for a few seconds and made a phone ring once. My deck reversed last night's futility card just before the storm. I've busked up enough cash for a ticket. The fates'll do the rest. A rainbow came out in the East before the storm darkened the horizon. In its heart struck a bolt of lightning. It seemed like a call to action.
I still have to much stuff for one backpack, and my traveling pack is a bit small. Many cubic feet of stuff left for the dumpster and free piles. A waterproof sack of Santa remains in the collection. Red clown shoes, Santa hats, everything red. I don't have much reason to take that on the road right now. A nearby fellow traveler comes to mind all the sudden. The older of the sleeping bags' zipper died a while ago, but may offer better insulation in wet conditions. Sew? I wish I'd given the shoes I bartered a better whiff before losing the boots. The shoes only discomfort stems from knowing I may not be able to keep my socks fresh enough to avoid bootrot. doh An error in judgement corrects an error in judgement. Course corrected.
So me and me mates go down to the local elementary school for the Democratic Party caucus. The Obama side generally had little idea what to do at a caucus as they'd never previously taken interest in the process. Our precinct appears to overwhelmingly supportive of Barack Obama. My friends and I, including those friends I had not expected to see there: two of my neighbors. At only %3 of precincts reporting in Texas, Obama is winning here.
Yay! PPD just called me to tell me I have elevated amylase and lipase levels and couldn't tell me what that means because that would be [illegal since I'm not a fucking doctor], and that I'm excluded from ALL PPD studies until I see a doctor.
Woo hoo So I look it up on the web and find out that these are markers for chronic pancreatitis, the leading causes of which are excessive alcohol use and uh, I think I'd know if I had cystic fibrosis by now. So there goes my get rich quick scheme, oh yeah, and maybe my health. I can get reinstated if I see a doctor and s/he says I'm cool. I hope I just eat too much sugar and fat or something, because it would be a pain in the ass to reimprint liking drugs with no long term health effects again, like pot and LSD.
I'm often mistaken for the caring nice person I come across as. I have great respect for few people, far fewer than those whose company I frequent and/or enjoy. If I spend time with you, and we never make each other laugh a lot, y'know for the better part of half an hour or more, you may not really be my friend. Maybe we relate on other things. I find myself frighteningly lacking in compassion. Maybe I'm just so damn poor all the time I forget to think about others. Maybe I've just noticed and become less tolerant of selfish motivations incongruent with my own. Being ammoral has really helped me be simultaneously less judgemental and more of an elitist. A friend of mine thinks its kind of funny that I use the term "ammoral" instead of "immoral" considering my devious and deviant proclivities. I think even many of my ethical standards are flexible. On second thought, I think I have morals congruent with my beliefs.I wish to continue, but I shall sleep...is this a draft?
I've never had any interest in voting in a primary, much less a real presidential candidate (anyone remember Speak and Spell Guy?), but I'm voting for Barack Obama. He refuses to accept contributions from arms manufaturers. He refuses to accept contributions from lobbyists. He refuses to accept contributions from the pharmaceutical industry or health care industry. He openly and passionately spoke out and voted against the war and intends to end it.
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly lied about Obama's record and taken his words out of context . She claimed he was "inconsistent" in that he voted to fund the war when it was occurring and accused him of removing a speech from his website that in fact was not removed. She also accused Obama of supporting Reagan's policies for saying that Reagan had significantly altered the direction of the country, although Obama had made no positve qualification thereof. Furthermore, Clinton accused Obama of being "weak on choice," despite having a perfect voting record on women's rights and specifically a woman's right to choose by the National Organization of Women.
For once in your life, I encourage you to vote in this Primary election. Although Obama is the frontrunner in elected delagates, if Obama doesn't win Texas, the superdelegates can steer the nomination away from the duly elected Democratic candidate. So March 4th, March forth and vote.
