2006, A Personal Note

I would like to wish all those who receive my frequent writings and rantings a happy and healthy new year. Here's praying, in a non-sectarian way, we will all be around to celebrate the next one.

To me personally, it is amazing to see the year 2006. Why? Because being born in 1937 (Damn, I'm getting, or have gotten, old) I grew up mentally and emotionally sure that the 21st century was so far in the future that I would never have the opportunity to see it. Most people my age, that I speak to, agree with that thinking. After all, Buck Rogers was a prediction of things to come for our children and grandchildren. People just didn't live that long, or so it seemed. Glad I was wrong.

So here we go into the sixth year of that century I would never see.

The world is a changed place from when I was a child, some of it very good and some of it very bad. Too often our politicians in Washington make me feel like expressing the words of actor Peter Finch in the Academy Award winning 1976 movie Network, "I'm mad as hell and not going to take it any more." That's why I write so much. My computer is the cheapest psychiatrist I can find. And it doesn't talk back or disagree with me. So I'll keep on expressing my opinion.

I thank you for allowing me to bitch on your shoulder, whether you agree with me or not. That's part of the America I love. Anytime you think I've gone off the deep end, or might happen to agree with me, let me know by writing back. Or if you want to share these writings with someone who might be interested, and I hope not offended, please send me their email address and I will add them onto my distribution list. What the hell, the more the merrier.

Anyway, thank you for your patience and once again, a happy, healthy, and I hope, a peaceful new year.