Still Raining...Cold, too

Oh, the excitement is too much around here. Into our third day of some kind of rain and this will probably be our wettest. Saturday will have only a 10% chance of the wet stuff but by then I'll be running on muddy trails in 40-degree temps rugged up just enough to keep from freezing and hoping that my running warms the rest of me up! It ought to be a hoot.

It's early Friday morning. Jonnene's gone to do her pilates at the studio and I'm just goofing off a bit right now. No running or biking in the plans for today if this rain keeps up. I could go to the gym this afternoon and ride a stationary bike but, heck, why don't I just go ahead and hit myself with a bag of rocks over and over? I'll probably do some weights while watching Fox and Friends, then get ready for the day.

BTW, the Obamster has now declared that the financial crisis might not be as bad as originally thought. Gee, that's a relief. After all the predictions of doom and gloom from him the last few weeks we now see a bit of sun through the clouds. I'm pretty sure that all that doomsday talk helped to tank the markets, too. Wall Street had no confidence in the President or Congress, and those who closely followed the shenanigans going on in Washington felt the same way. How can these bunch of clowns spend money like this? There is no perfect financial system but capitalism does the best of all of them at correcting itself and, in this case (as well as in 1927), it is not being given the chance. I'm no financial expert (hey, I'm an art major, y'know?) but even I know that what's been going on up in D.C. is not the right way to handle this. There's going to be pain no matter what but, geez, let's find out what caused all this and correct THAT, or it's going to happen again. I already have my own thoughts on what caused this. Then let those companies who can't survive go...new ones will take their place and be even stronger over time. Don't lend money to those who we know aren't going to pay it back (Congress had a strong hand in that, don't believe anything that says they didn't). And we'll get thru this faster. The worse thing we can do is spend ourselves into a third world nation and saddle the next two generations with debt. When the next recession hits...and it will someday, because everything goes in cycles...we'll still be paying for this one and that'll be the killer.