Gallery Additions:

Yes, it’s the time of the year where you go, “Eep!, where did the summer go? I still need to do [list of chores].”

So I’ve been doing a lot of that.

Refinanced the house – finally!, got a quote on a new furnace (getting ready for when summer wanes), got the blade on the lawnmower sharpened, so it wasn’t just “gumming” the grass and so on.

Many little tasks, each taking little time, all adding up to large blocks of time.

Now if it would only rain so I could do the late-summer fertilizing, I’d be a happier camper…

It’s actually been a crappy summer weather-wise this year. Cold and rainy in the early part of the summer, and it never really got those nice sunny days that plants need to really get established.

Oh well, there’s always next year.

Beyond that, working hard and enjoying (? is that the right word?) all the frivolity that is surrounding the whole election process.

Unfortunately, it is sad that the process is so comical – because the results can be so devastating.

Still, how can you not crack a smile – or laugh because you’d otherwise cry – at the scripting, pandering politicos and their often frightenly rabid followers?

It’s just sad…

I guess it’s a wonderful thing that we’re trying to bring this brilliant form of government to Iraq. Yeah, that’ll work well. Look how well it’s worked thus far. Not a pretty sight from any point of view (Republican, Democrat, American/Anti-Amercian, Iraqi leadership, Iraqi warriors and so on).

It’ll be interesting to see how all of this plays out in an historical light, like going back and seeing the actions/re-actions that led to the carnage that was WWI.

On an unrelated note: Today’s spam percentage: hoving in the high 90s. Yes, spam filters catch virtually all of this, but…why? Tell me e-mail’s not broken is some fundamental way.