Valentine's Day

Well another Valentine's Day come and gone...spent a bunch of time today thinking of my sweetie , she was home while I was at work. We now have celebrated 27 Valentine's together. Each one is better and better! I Miss her when we are apart, and Love her more when we are together.

I can't even begin to imagine my life without her. I have learned and grown so much over the years, just being in her sphere. She is always doing something to learn and strive and grow. She is interested in so many things and has included me in all of her journeys. Speaking of journeys she is inviting me to France later this Spring. We are headed to Paris in Springtime, what a lovely romantic place to be!!

My Wife and my Life Partner, I think I'll keep her...

Home for a few days

Took some time off from work, so I have a 4 day weekend. Was supposed to meet with 1 of my sisters in Portland Or. She had a business conference there and was going to come in early, and we were going to drive over to spend some time. Well for a few different reasons, it ended up not working out and we stayed home.
What it did do for us though was to get some time at home, alone. So we just kicked back, and hung out. On Saturday we went on a short shopping trip, getting stuff for our upcoming "Tour of France". Then Sunday worked on Income Taxes, played some games, took my daughter to town to see her boyfriend and generally just had fun.
Today, I am trying to get Cynthia to start blogging again. She hasn't blogged in over a year because "It's too hard", "I don't get it", "It takes too long".... Well hopefully, if I can get her going, I will follow through and blog too.

Political Rant

OK, so maybe you know maybe you don't...I am a Liberal! through and through. No doubt about it. I hardly believe that we have actually survived the dark ages since 2000, actually begun in '94 when the Democrats lost control of the Congress.

Since the Republican take over of Congress in '94, The Contract ON America (Gingrich starts the assault on the Middle and Lower classes), the late 90's with the Lewinsky "scandal" (you remember, 2 adults consensually making decisions that had nothing to do with anyone else), GW stealing the election in 2000, Tax Cuts, EVERY Child Left Behind school initiative, Oil "conference" by Cheney, WMD, Enron, more Tax Cuts, War in Iraq, Loss of personal freedoms, Halliburton, Prez Election issues in 2004 the list is endless.

Finally in 2006, we have a glimmer of hope, Democrats regain the House and barely have an edge in the Senate. Suddenly we have movement in the Congress. Minimum Wage increase seems imminent, Tax Cuts will not be continued, Investigations into the Lies that led to War in Iraq (yes Saddam was horrible, is what is going on now, Civil War better?).

Please look at the link to the right, or choose another candidate that will move us forward, and not back to the Dark Republican era (1994 to 2006) we recently left.

Blogging

I have been reading a lot of blogs recently. It has inspired me to make a concerted effort to actually have a blog going. A couple of buddies at work blog much more often than I do , and post pictures ( Phil and Mike ). Also have stumbled across a few more blogs that I have been 'lurking' on, and they are pretty consistent in blogging almost daily. I won't make that kind of commitment to myself, but will be more diligent.

Using my PC right now as my wife and daughter are on the computer (playing Tala's new Nancy Drew Mystery) where my photo's are stored. Later, when they are done, I will post some recent photos.

I finally got a decent Tri-pod. I was supposed to pick one out for my birthday in October, but never completed my recearch to decide exactly which one I wanted. Between October and Christmas, I did some more research and finally decided. We went to Spokane to look in person at them at Huppins, with the idea that we might come home and get a better price on-line. We found what we wanted, and my wife convinced me to go ahead and get it instead of waiting to get it in the mail. They didn't have one in the Store to sell, so they offered to let us pick it up from their warehouse in Idaho, on our way home. This was great for us, as we got to pay Idaho sales tax (6%) instead of Spokane tax (8.5%)! Had to wait to use it until I 'opened' it on Xmas morning, but it was just as good. We ended up getting a Manfrotto tri-pod and ball-head. I've taken a few pictures from it, but will use it more soon. Thanks Dear!!

More later when I get to the other PC....

Oh yeah I have a Blog!!

As per usual, I blogged regularly for a few weeks, then got out of the habit, and it has been a couple of months... Bad Dave!

Some exciting news at least for me. Signed up for WildBlue Satellite for Internet. Have been on Dial-up for about 10 years, and finally have a better option. I like it a lot, though my wife continues to say 'I don't see a difference'. It is at least 8 times faster and sometimes as much as 10 times faster (based on download speeds)!! The other problem is that when snow collects on the dish, reception decreases (or ceases). Then again when I park the car and it snows, I need to clean off the windshield to drive, guess it is similar.

On a bigger scale, the recent National elections are showed a trend to rationality in the electorate that we have been missing for the last 6 years at least, and last 12 years in total. The Democratic Party has taken back control of the House and Senate, and a large majority of the Governorships. Perhaps we can start un-doing the last 6 years of un-checked errors and horrible decisions by King George and his minions.