What a week! Evenbreeze, aka Adam, visited this week. It's been wonderful seeing him. If I'd had more money and we had more unscheduled time I would have taken him to the beach or to Asheville or possible to Table Rock or some other hiking locale. As it was, he was pretty busy. He only got to see Andy and Katy for about a day and wishes, I think, that he could stay longer. In a perfect world he could live in Louisiana and still be only 30 minutes away.
He was supposed to be leaving in the morning but the train is overbooked and so he can't leave until Monday morn. Elias is going to stay up with him and they'll both find out after dropping Adam off at the train station. How do I know this? Because it's already happened! I'm writing from the morning of the 7th, not the 6th.
Spoke, or rather listened, with Daddy at length about the Republican Convention. He says they've never sounded so, well, Republican as they do now. McCain also seems dead set on war with somebody, probably Iran. What a difference the Democratic Convention was! It was an open convention with people from all social classes, albeit the rich were somewhat unrepresented. The Republicans' convention by contrast was closed. You couldn't even view it on TV until it had already happened, the Democrats convention was live on TV and internet.
Seems pretty clear to me. Democrats, this once, are set to embrace an optomistic future with great strides in environment, healthcare, alternate power sources, friendly and reasonable foriegn policy, and general opportunity for all. The Republicans, as ever, are stuck in the past. They want to prolong oil dependance, pick fights with other countries, make money for their constituents and placate or dupe the masses enough to continue doing so forever.
That's it. Have a great week tomorrow! :)
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