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Looking for a new job at my age is really frustrating. Especially at this time of the year when the market is flooded with young people...
Sheesh. Fagedda bout it.

Truck driving is looking more and more attractive. Even though I'll be out and about on the road - away from here (I'm a homebody at heart) I do love to drive. Picking a "company" to drive for is getting to be a job in itself. Soon, I'm just going to close my eyes and let my finger fall on the page - as a way of deciding. That's called being definitive I suppose.

In other news, my nephew decided (rightly) to get back together with his girlfriend and move back to Indiana. we are happy for them.

We nearly lost part of the house on Monday. falling trees, lightning and high wind have a way of reminding us that Mother Nature is a force that sometimes cannot be reckoned with. Our thoughts are with the people in the Midwest at this time.

BU$H has ignored disaster victims once again. The Katrina Debacle has taught his administration absolutely ZILCH. Gallivanting around Europe like a lost little schoolboy on summer vacation - he should be ashamed of himself.

Then when he does return - pushing Congress to legislate for offshore drilling like the mad idiot he is. This is just what the Big Oil Corporations needed as an excuse to push their agenda on the American People and the Planet...

Let's all bet on oil speculations like the big boys do and make billions off the little people (see Enron Loophole) fudging their possible 'futures'...

For Ran... My Bumperstickers..

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Bumper Sticker Heaven

Ran has an article on his site: "No religion Now" which is pretty thought provoking about "bumper stickers" and the intelligence of the people who drive the vehicles on which they appear...

I wonder what he would think of my "Bessie - The Green Finned Demon". My "wandering Billboard"..."The Green Dragon" which is my 'chariot'.

She's getting pretty expensive to keep now, since the price of her food has skyrocketed, but I just can't seem to give her up just yet...
Even though last week, while transporting a Player Piano, the wheel-gate wasn't hitched and swung open, hitting a lawyer's SUV and smashing the side view mirror off his vehicle... It would have to have been a lawyer, but he was way cool with it, and thanked me for coming into the office to tell him what happened.

[Thanks to the "Forces" that be that was all that occurred.]

Unseen stickers that are hidden in the photo:
Behind the wheel on the back:

"PRO-LOVE"

"God Bless The Grateful Dead"

"TAKE A HIKE - Long Trail Ale"

"HRC =Equality="

"Peace Through Music"

...and of course my personal favorite:

The Last Time We Mixed Politics With Religion... People Got Burned At The Stake.

And then, there is the front of "Bessie":

If you look closely, above the rearview mirror on the windshield you will see:
"NAMASTE"

... and on the front bumper:

"LOVE YOUR MOTHER [EARTH]"

and "BAN LANDMINES"

I'm just wondering what Ran [and what everyone who sees her] would think if he saw this beast driving towards him on the highway...

All I know is that it keeps people behind me occupied at red lights. LOL

Peace

p.s. "Inteligence Quotient" was not invoked at the time of the 'slapping-on' of Bumper stickers.

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