Well, here we are, my first day of the rest of my life. Funny how the past year has gone, Last year around this time we were all going about our lives waiting for the end of yet another dreary, boring election and then Dickhead stole the presidency. Now the entire world is waiting for Armgeddon. Today liberal americans look over their shoulders, talk in hushed voices in public and generally acknowledge the fact that freedom and democracy are finally and inarguably dead. Dead, dead, dead. Lately I've been posting on the Pravda forum regarding the war in Afghanistan and the loss of freedom in the U.S. At first I felt like I was actually doing something, letting others out there around the world know that many americans really aren't a bunch of brain-dead self-involved shitheels. Now I wonder if the FBI is monitoring the site taking down names for the inevitable rounding up and exile to the American Gulag. So here I sit in my room, cat by my side, waiting to crawl into my lap after I finish typing and go back to my overanxious netsurfing, looking for more info on 'The War' and hoping against hope that freedom will return in this country. Not likely. Bush and his bunch have finally won this battle, but there is a war yet to be waged against the minds of people better educated and far better informed overseas, and that's something I hope they never win. I hope they don't even have a chance in a mild skirmish over there.
How could this happen, anyway? I thought there were supposed to be checks and balances in place to prevent something like this from happening. Our elected representatives and officials and offices were supposed to detect these kinds of things and arrest the evildoers. You would think that when things like Iran-Contra, the Savings and Loan fiasco, Reagen's mediocrity and feeble-mindedness and other things that are so fucking obvious they can't be denied occur that the perpetrators would be rounded up and at the very least put in jail forever and ever without any chance of parole. But nooooooooooo!!!!!! Instead, in this country the bad guys win. And win big. and because of this the rest of the world suffers for it. The rich and ignorant rule and the world suffers for it.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to finally do something about my weight problem, it's not awfully bad, but I wanted to do something about it nonetheless.
So I joined 24 hour Fitness. I also decided, against my better judgement to use the services of a fitness trainer there and so now I go in three times a week and workout with Shermont, a former UW Husky football guy. The past couple of times I've been there I've been giving him some good food for thought and I can see the mental gears clicking as he thinks over what I've said. I'm hoping that when I've finished with it all that I will not only gain back the body I used to have when I bicycled a lot, but perhaps something far better still. That is still up in the air, but we'll see what the outcome is at the end of December. I don't think I'm going to look like Arnold Schwartzwangler, but I should look noticeably better than I do now. I think the real motivating factor was when I saw my new driver's license photo that was taken recently, I think I was around 240 pounds and looking old and fat. Uggggghhhhhhh!!!! I mean, I know I'm 41 years old now, but it doesn't mean I have to look (and feel) like I'm fifty.