Breaks

Once again there was a nice break since the last time I posted. In that time, the Congress has seen fit to address gun control (sort of) by including a gun provision in a bill that had NOTHING TO DO WITH guns in any way. Yet another reason why I don't like/trust the government. If someone does get shot in a national forest, I hope they (or their surviving family) sue each and every politician who voted for that law. That would make 'em think twice...maybe.

Anyway, there was a break since last posting in part because Partner and I went to San Francisco and Paradise, CA for six days. Luckily I had heard the long-standing fact that SF weather in the summer can be very cold, so I dressed for it. I almost felt sorry for the other tourists in shorts and light clothes who were shivering under the fog-filled sky. One little kid in a restaurant said it was supposed to be warm, to which the surly waitress replied, "Why, because it's California? In San Francisco it's cold in the summer!" That'll teach him.

The Friday night before we left for our trip, we were at a bar talking to a friend. I told him how I had given up alcohol for a few weeks and was trying to stay on a diet that had me eating foods specifically beneficial for my blood type. I told him I was blood type A. With a drink in his hand, Partner said he was blood type AA.

Later in that same conversation, the friend and I got on to the subject of how we dislike people who can't laugh at themselves. (I don't trust or like people who don't use self-deprecating humor. Is their self-esteem so delicate that they can't see any humor in what they do? I'd feel sorry for them except that I'm usually running in the other direction.) My friend said, "People who can't laugh at themselves are the only ones not in on the joke." Brilliant!