How interesting to know that between the Democrat candidates there is only an 80,000 vote difference nation wide.  Just think of that, only 80,000 in total votes.  Who would ever have believed that a black man could have the potential to defeat a white person (man or woman) in the election for President of the USA?  I would hazard a guess that our forefathers would never believe it.  That and a WOMAN in the running.  Scandalous!

If John McCain gets the Republican nomination I believe his only chance to win would be to have Mike Huckabee as the VP.  It would give him some balance in the area he needs and of course it would be my pick for President in the second seat in case something, God forbid, should happen to McCain.  That’s a pretty strong ticket.  We’ll see.

On the news last night they showed the youth training for Al Qaida activities.  Some of them are just "babies"…reminded me of the movie we saw with Cyn and Drew..Blood Diamonds..where the youth of a tribe was taken and brainwashed into becoming guerilla fighters.  How insane, how cruel, how wrong is that?

I emailed both ChaCha and the Ambassador yesterday to inquire as to the impact the difficulties in Kenya have had on them and their families.  I worry so about ChaCha.  He may be out of the country for work but Robbie and the kids are in country, I certainly pray they are safe.  At least Peter and Rose are in the USA so they, themselves, have been fine, I hope their families have been safe too.  How totally sad.  

Greg and I were discussing the situation at dinner last night and his take on it is that due to the President trying to rid Kenya of the corruption that has been part of life for ever that the riots provoked by the opposition party could be as a result of the opposition party losing their ability to control the corruption and it impacted their “way of life and income” so much that they are fighting to bring back the old ways.  When Peter and Rose were at our house they talked about the positive changes that the President was bringing to the country, roads, communication, electricity and so on.  Desperately needed things that had fallen into disrepair from neglect or have never been installed.  It would be wonderful it these things could be done for the country without the degree of corruption that has run rampant in the county in years past.  Everyone would benefit…well, maybe not everyone, those that want to pay their families for not working, for taking things that don’t belong to them and keeping them as their own probably don’t think of it as a benefit to all.

For the past two days we haven’t had phones at the office, a major cable was cut someplace that took the whole area down.  At first they said it would be fixed by 4:30 on Tuesday, ok, the guys would just have a short day.  Well, that didn’t happen so when I called yesterday morning they told me that they had someone on it and it should be up "as soon as possible."  Well, that didn’t happen either.  I called last night and they told me that it might be Sunday night before it was fixed although it was a business account so it had top priority.  I went a little nuts (but, I was nice to the guy, it wasn’t his fault) and wouldn’t you know it, its fixed today!! 

Greg is working hard on the stuff for his interview this afternoon.  He has a lot of it done but still needs to focus and finish up.  The amount of work he had to do for this is actually a lot, with only two days to prepare (which may, in some ways be a blessing..not so much time to fret) he has really had to stick with it.

Because the phones were out and so no one was able to work I took the afternoon and went with friends for coffee.  We got a lot discussed, plans made and ideas shared and were out of Greg’s hair until 6 pm!  I felt kind of bad that GW wasn’t able to be with us but at the same time I knew he really would get a lot more accomplished if I wasn’t in the office…even if I kept quiet (which isn’t easy for me…thought hits brain and runs out mouth) so it worked out for the best.

Next week is state wrestling tournament which means that all the hotels are booked from Wed. on.  We will be at the Minor Mansion until Wed. morning and then will be over where our friend lives for Wed. night.  Because most of those units are rented out as condo’s they only have a few rooms left to rent on a nightly basis (and don’t work very hard at doing that) they are not booked for the tournament.  Friends set it up for us so we will have a room and it will only cost us $25!!  Not a bad deal.  Then next week it’s back to the LaQuinta (Minor Mansion). 

I’ve been checking Payperpost when I get time but haven’t had much luck lately, most are videos (which I could do but since I’m not cooking chicken on a grill it hasn’t been something for me to video.)  Heidi has gotten some that I’ve missed….you go girl!!

Now it is time to get to real work.