My new favorite spot in central Texas

Came across this last weekend when we drove up to Crawford. I had been to my previous favorite spot the night before..a waterfall near where my Ex. A was spending the night. This other waterfall had dried up, as the lake had been dredged. I was very disappointed, but then I came upon this park the next morning almost by accident. It was wonderful to stand next to the falls and feel the spray. This is a perfect picnic spot and I plan to go there more often.

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You can't make this stuff up either.

My dad served in Vietnam and proudly wears his Vietnam Veteran cap. He never really talks about it, but he was there when I was 2 and my brother was 8. He and my mom recently went to a renaissance festival and my mother told me how countless people came up to my dad to thank him. It was heartwarming, especially after all these years. He's been wearing this hat for years and has never seen this like he is seeing it now.

... and then you read stuff like this..


In a profile of Kerry in The Boston Globe, October 6, 1996, reporter Charles M. Sennott wrote:

'That Kerry took the trouble to film his war experience strikes many veterans, including some of his closest friends, as extraordinary -- even strange.'

'Kerry says he shot his war footage on a Super 8 camera he bought at the PX in Cam Ranh Bay. Asked how he filmed in the heat of battle, he demonstrated, gripping an imaginary ship's helm and thrusting his camera hand out to the side. "I'd steer, or direct, or fire my gun, and hold onto it when I could," Kerry says.'

"Indeed, after Kerry's swift boat was attacked on February 28, 1969 - an event in which Kerry's action led to his being awarded the Silver Star - Kerry returned to the scene of the incident the next day with his movie camera to re-enact exactly what had transpired - for the record."

"Sennott described the footage of Kerry as a "young man so unconscious of risk in the heat of battle, yet so focused on his future ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the PT-109."

"Sennott captured one other moment worth mentioning. Hours after his victory over William Weld in November, 1996, Kerry gathered a bunch of his fellow swift boat veterans together at his home where they watched his movies and reminisced fondly about Vietnam well into the morning. Sennott wrote:

'[Fellow Vietnam veteran Thomas] Vallely teased Kerry about the films, which some have felt revealed that even as a young lieutenant, Kerry was so intent on his future political ambitions that he made sure he had his heroics captured on film. Kerry looked at Vallely over his bifocals and smirked."

random thoughts

Im sitting here at 2-something a.m. with insomnia again.

I am worried about the new job (just separation-anxiety, I guess.) That said, people who know me will agree that I worry if I don't have something to worry about. I know everything will work out, but I've been with my current company for 15 years (actually would have been 15 years in about 3 weeks.) I always figured I'd retire there. It's just bittersweet, I guess. I know that in a few months, I'll look back and chuckle at how I feel right now.

Anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, the upside is that this Sunday will be my LAST Sunday having to work. That alone is a plus. I had to take the Sunday schedule as a compromise to get off the night shift, which was REALLY not working out for us.

I finally read more of the blogs on my sidebar. I don't always get to most of them, just 4 or 5 of them. I see that Kolbi has a cousin in the Army who is in Bagdad. So do I (found out a month or two ago)... and my uncle might be over there soon too (a reservist.) Pray for our cousins and all our soldiers over there.

I'm working on a website for the local taskforce trying to put a stop to the building of this abortion clinic. We had a meeting on Tuesday and there were a LOT of people there. Good to see the community pulling together like this.

You can't make this stuff up

Pamela Anderson Asks Hollywood to End Animal Abuse

Lots of celebrities are climbing on the bandwagon including Alec Baldwin and Frances Fisher. You remember those two? They were among those at the Pro-Choice rally.

"Chimpanzees used in ads and shows are all babies, snatched from their mothers and made to perform silly tricks. I chose to be in the movies, but these poor animals didn't. I don't want to be a part of the cruelty," said Anderson.