So it's a new year...
Thus far, not off to the best start; my mother had another "spell" near the end of her five block walk, resulting in me pushing her back on our neighbor's lawn and getting her feet up. The dark and awful looking sky at once opened up, while she was getting her breathing steadied. She's been a bit off the last couple of days, one of those cognitive troughs into which she slips now and again. Starting to ask certain questions repeatedly in the span of 10 or 15 minutes. Forgetting her morning pills, even though they're always out for her to see. I'm wondering what's going to happen when we go away the week after next, but I really need a break.
We got out in the late afternoon to run an errand, a quest for "superhero" lunche boxes for my sister's new sons, our new nephews. Mission was accomplished, in the maw of a Fred Meyer store 2+ miles away. Beloved spouse got to fondle a nice digital camera, as he pursues comparison shopping for one with a bit more fire power than his old one. He's developing quite a good eye for the capturable image, and indulges my suggested ones.
Our beloved son man contact this evening; he had to go to some point high enough in Joshua Tree NP in order to get cell phone reception. It sounds as if htey've been having a good time, doing more hiking around to find climbing spots than he had wanted to, and having a bit of a confusion with the park rangers, whom he and others I've talked to say are getting increasingly fascist - the higher ups in the National Park Service had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Bush administration some time last year, never a good sign - which I hope he has worked out by the time we get there a week from tomorrow. It's been nice there, sunny mostly, chilly at night. Just about any place without endless ice water falling from the sky, as we have here, would be wonderful.
We got out in the late afternoon to run an errand, a quest for "superhero" lunche boxes for my sister's new sons, our new nephews. Mission was accomplished, in the maw of a Fred Meyer store 2+ miles away. Beloved spouse got to fondle a nice digital camera, as he pursues comparison shopping for one with a bit more fire power than his old one. He's developing quite a good eye for the capturable image, and indulges my suggested ones.
Our beloved son man contact this evening; he had to go to some point high enough in Joshua Tree NP in order to get cell phone reception. It sounds as if htey've been having a good time, doing more hiking around to find climbing spots than he had wanted to, and having a bit of a confusion with the park rangers, whom he and others I've talked to say are getting increasingly fascist - the higher ups in the National Park Service had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Bush administration some time last year, never a good sign - which I hope he has worked out by the time we get there a week from tomorrow. It's been nice there, sunny mostly, chilly at night. Just about any place without endless ice water falling from the sky, as we have here, would be wonderful.
posted by isabelita at 12:55 PM
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Hmmm. Fascists in the Park Service. Jim Morrison probably wouldn't fit in there anymore with his bonfires and peyote, huh? Be careful when you go up there!
The loyalty oath has always been a problem for me. When I started working on one job, they required a loyalty oath to the governor. I wondered what would happen if I refused to sign it, but then discarded the thought becuase I needed employment more than I needed to prove a point. Even so, I think the loyalty oath is really a sign of political weakness - if you have to demand it up front and on paper, you don't have it.
Neil - Oh, was that one of Jim's haunts? Nope, he'd hate the fees they charge, although five bucks a night doesn't seem bad, but there's no water, you have to bring it in. What is there to worry about, besides the rangers? Oh, our kid said they got lost in the dark and ran into a few cacti.
'spike, you are of course entirely correct about "loyalty oaths." Why are we all standing around watching these fuckers consolidate their nazi grip?
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