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The time has come to vacate the upstairs apt. at my Ex's house that Beth and I have been residing at for the last year and a half and get a place we can call our own...

We've been looking for almost six months and didn't find anything that really suited our needs/budget;and when we really got serious, the credit crunch started and we found we couldn't get financing for anything we would care to live at, so we switched to rental mode.

It's UNBELIEVABLE the rents people are trying to charge these days!

But we finally found a place that will work for the next couple years until we can get a down payment together for a place we can truly call our own (and the bank's, LOL)

So we're in the process of getting our stuff together and getting it to the new house. I think we'll be pretty much settled in by next Monday, with the exception of the computer and TV hookups. It will take some time to get those done, since the cable company wants an exorbitant amount to get service started, and after buying needed appliances and paying for the movers, something has to give and that something is the computer and TV.

I'm certainly not looking forward to being out of touch with the Blogging community, and being able to come here and rant on issues that I feel are important.

So if I suddenly stop posting, you'll know the reason why, and rest assured that I will make every effort to return to regular blogging as SOON as I possibly can.
I only hope you can bear with me on through the hiatus and not stop reading; you are all like an extended family to me and I would miss you deeply.

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I found this at OLD SOLDIER, and like he said, it is very appropiate right now.

To all those families out there who have loved ones deployed,

We don't thank the troops nearly often enough, much less thank those that wait for them to return home. We all need to try to be more grateful for all they sacrifice for the greater good.

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Beth at Yeah, Right, Whatever tagged me with this challenge:

The Rules:

1. Write your own six word memoir.
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you want.
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to the original post if possible so we can track it as travels across the blogosphere.
4. Tag at least five more blogs with links.
5. Leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.

Hmmm...

Learning,

Acceptance,

I think I'll tag Catfish, GuyK,Wild Thing,Crunchie, and Brendon

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We have lost another of the greats. Actor,veteran (Ssgt-AAF), civil rights activist, 2nd Amendment defender. Mr. Heston spoke out for civil rights before it was cool;he staunchly held up the American ideal of self reliance and self sufficiency, and coined the phrase "from my cold dead hands" when facing the threat of the GFW's abrogating the 2nd Amendment.

His choice of epitath is from Shakespears Tempest when Prospero ends the play with:

Be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

His two most famous roles...

And just for fun... (maybe prophetic about his future fight with the GFW's as President of the NRA?)

I have a speech that Mr. Heston delivered at Harvard University Law School that personifies his politics, and, I believe, his greatness as a human being. It's a bit long so I put under the fold. Please, do yourself a favor, and read it. Read it, and try to see if you can follow the example he made. more...

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