Wet Thursday Night on 9-11

It is pouring down rain tonight in the central USA--maybe caused by Hurricane Ike, which wrecked Cuba and Haiti, and is moving toward the coast of Texas tonight. Ike will not go away. I have not typed anything for a while because the puter was not working right, but has gotten fixed. It is amazing that one can get addicted to having the internet and seem lost without the thing. I lived many many years without having this invention and now I feel lost if I cannot turn it on to get information. Intellectuals keep moaning that the whole culture lives on the net and no one reads regular books or papers anymore and everyone is getting such a short attention span that no one can do normal reading. I think I am in that group, but the internet is such an amazing creation that I keep finding new interesting things on the web. I am devoted to the web and thank the powers that be that it is available for us. Enough of that. The news is dominated by the election campaign, which should go into history as a really interesting piece of History. A black guy beats out a white woman who thought she would be Crowned as a candidate or a president, and the Repubs select an old white guy who almost blew his campaign a year ago and beats the front runners and then picks a strange woman governor of Alaska as his veep, and she gets all the attention and she is either hated or worshipped. I am not totally sold on Sarah Palin, even if she does shoot mooses like Teddy Roosevelt. In an upcoming blog entry I may cut loose and give my full opinion on the whole campaign. The hurricane season has been a wild one. H Gustav was predicted to be so bad that the whole gulf coast in the New Orleans area was evacuated, and then Gustav turned out to be a big wind and rain storm instead of a total Katrina type hurricane. I am now watching Cspan show the ceremony at the Pentagon for 9-11 and am starting to get weepy as I sometimes do when I get emotional about the whole event, so I should pull myself together. I worked years ago with a lady whose husband was killed at the Towers when the towers fell on the Marriott hotel between the towers. I hope the candidates say some time during the next few weeks that This Will Never Happen Again. This is going to be all for right now. You take care and now that the computer is working again I may have more to type next time. Di di mau!