Having trouble getting into the regular blogging regimen, let’s see what happens after I get a few personal things straightened out ovber the next few days…

We’re in the “silly season” here in the Valley of the Sun. Anytime you hear a meteorologist calling for a “huge cool down” to a temperature of 102, you know where you’ve been has not been very pleasant. The last week has been miserable here – as I’ve said previously, it’s the Arizona equivalent of a late January / early February “cold snap” in New England – no one goes out, everyone hops from A/C environ to A/C environ.

I’m so glad I didn’t buy DirecTV’s “MLB Extra Innings” package to watch the Red Sox. They’re awful, and I’m hoping that this off-season management cleans house. There’s no one – and I do mean no one – on that team that shouldn’t be considered expendable. Who would want to spend valuable $ to watch such an unlikeable team? And I’d put 1B Adrian Gonzalez and Ps Josh Beckett and John Lackey at the top of the list.

Maybe it’s just me and my heightened sense of propriety, but I find VP Joe Biden’s “chains” remark beyond reprehensible, and the worst of a campaign that has been horrendous and classless to date. Not because of the words he actually said, but because of his descent into “Negro dialect” cadence to somehow make his audience think he was one of them. It’s the worst kind of race-baiting, something that is deeply beneath the office he holds. But then again, I’ve learned that there is nothing sacred anymore about the way this President and his Vice-President go about their business. It really is despicable and reprehensible, and one can only hope that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan can get elected to restore some kind of dignity to the office – I’ll tell you, it is long overdue.

If this is what this country is coming to I’m glad I only have rabbits, not children. You know, what goes around comes around. I know people – a frequent commenter is among them – sho sacrifice a lot to take care of their elderly parents in their time of need. I don’t mean to use the term sacrifice, as if they’re giving up something else unwillingly, it’s more an extension of love. Look, my parents washed me, fed me, and wiped my a** whe I was too young to do so, why should it be such a big deal to reciprocate when the tables are turned? That’s life. And to see it as anything else is deluding yourself. We’re all born helpless, we grow up, we grow old, we become dependent on others. Such is the nature of God’s creation.

…and if you don’t believe me, check this out. My thoughts and prayers for God’s comfort and peace go out to Eric.