Chagal4's Blog

It”s Friday night and the car won’t start…the birds won’t fly…and they say there’s a snow storm coming. Seems like a perfect way to start the new year. I’ve been neglecting my blog lately…I know because a couple of good friends told me so…I stopped for a while because it seemed to me that I was ranting every time I sat down to write and I figured I might have been taking things a little too seriously. Not that there isn’t a plethora of things to be taken seriously…I swear I could find five things to rant about damn near every day. Sometimes it’s not a case of what to rant about but rather what to ignore.  I suppose the problem for me and a lot of others is that the burden of ignoring this stuff builds so much frustration. I wish we could do more…I always wish we could do more. Around this time of year I hear a lot of people promising to be better people. A few years ago I just couldn’t go with that anymore and I figured that I would promise myself to do the best that I could…added a couple of sensible senior citizen caveats and let it go at that. It seems to me that we’d all be better off if we didn’t wait until this time of year to make these promises. Maybe we could do it once or twice a week. After all, you have to wonder where all of these promises go. They don’t just hover in mid air, watching to make sure. They go to the “promise lounge” , hang around with other promises…compare notes…make bets…have a few drinks…and peek out the window every now and then to see how we’re doing. When we all wait until this time of year to make those promises…well…there’s a traffic jam outside the lounge and a line up to get in. Very uncomfortable time for promises. Increases the chances that most of them will not be fulfilled. Once or twice a week though, I’ll bet that lounge wouldn’t be too busy. 

My car will start tomorrow. It’s minus 25 right now but it will warm up to minus ten tomorrow and the birds will climb out of bed and get busy again. It won’t snow until Sunday…and it’ll go away in the spring. I’ll be back in ranting mode in a week or so but for now, I hope you all have a fine New Year and that at least some of your promises make it to the lounge before last call.

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