Glad to be of service Mr. President…

Well, at least I got one Member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy on my side…..

I’m just glad I can make life a little funnier for our dear former President and First Lady.

Special Thanks to his Secret Service detail for taking my name off the “No Mail” list, thereby allowing my request to actually get through to President Bush. (They have had me Red-Flagged for years!)

Glad to see Old George became a faithful reader of the blog after I begged and groveled in my autograph request letter to him.

Moving on…..

When I was at DFW on Monday, there was a man seated at a pay phone about 10′ away from my podium. The guy was talking in a pretty loud voice, loud enough to where I could hear everything he was saying without having to pretend to not be listening. The man sounded like he was talking to his Insurance Agent. My ears really perked up when he said “Well….we pay $6,500 a month for our Mortgage right now…….” I’m guessing he does NOT live in a house that at one time had wheels on it…..

My Dad and I guessed that his house must be worth, at LEAST, in the neighborhood of $700,000 or more.

I heard this guy and then thought, “What the heck is he doing talking on a pay phone?” A guy with a $700,000 house, surely has a Cell Phone, or two, and even if it had died on him, he could trot into any of the 300 shops in the Airport and buy another one and then just swap out his sim card.

I had to pick the kid up at school early today and take him to Dallas for his 6-week Orthodontic Appt. He was in the chair for a good 30 minutes, which he hated but I loved, cause I really like to feel that I am getting my monies worth considering the 148 mile round trip.

It reached 85 degrees here today. I still refuse to turn on the A/C. All three of us are wandering around the house dripping wet like we just climbed out of the pool. (If we had a pool. We have a Koi pond, but no Koi, the people we bought the house from wanted to know if we wanted to buy the Koi and just keep the Koi Pond as it was, but we declined, so when we actually moved into the house, we went out back and found all the Koi Pond Life Support equipment was gone, the water was still there, and laying under three tiny little white sheets, which were most likely handkerchiefs, were the lifeless bodies of the 3 now-deceased Koi, which was kind of sad in a way, but hey, that is the circle of Life, so anyway….it is now just a pond, well actually it is just a muddy hole… but pond sounds so much nicer)