Thank goodness January is about over

January thankfully ends tomorrow and hopefully February will be a lot less cruel although it will start out like a lion with very cold weather for the first 96 hours or so of the month. Its been a cold January throughout the region...Denver will have had its coldest January since 1979 and Phoenix will have its coldest since 1973. Here in Cheyenne we had our coldest stretch of weather since 1979 during the middle of the month and over in Laramie it has not reached 32 degrees since the 9th. The NWS is prognosticating warmer than usual temps for around here for the next several months so lets hope that starts happening as soon as possible for crying out loud.

I continue to wait patiently for any one or more of a US Senator and two US House Representative staff to get the USCIS to get my document issued so I can get ID so I can get back to work and re-establish a residence of my own. I realize I might well have to take additional steps in this ongoing hardship that may include writing the US Sec'y of Homeland Security, the President, and members of local and even national media to get someones attention and get this seemingly ridiculous problem solved. Over six months has gone by since the USCIS got my application and fee so its more than past high time that this get resolved.

Not very much else to talk about here recently. Look for the Colts to beat the Bears by about 27-17 in the Super Bowl.

I have been ill with a brutal cold that came on last Sunday the 21st and kicked me real hard for about 4 days and now I think I am starting to relapse again so its back to taking Alka Seltzer Plus Cold or Flu medicine 3-4 times daily for 2-3 days to get back on top of the malady. I am lucky to have found this medication as otherwise I would be without any pharmaceutical product to help me fight these kind of illnesses and I have had to endure far worse bouts than the current one I am enduring. I also drink lots and lots of water and rest and do little strenuous which seems to help out. I don't know what I am going to do when I leave this area in the next few years--hopefully I will be somewhere where the allergies will be not intense like they were on me when I lived in New Mexico. Up here vegetation is dead for about 7 months or so and in Arizona it was too hot and too dry for the vegetation that bothers me to live. I am not sure what to expect in VA or NC or FL but it cannot be as good or better than it is here in the High Plains or in the Low Desert.

I never hear from Hank as his life is fullblast gogogo now with his new work and his wife having a new job 60 miles away from their house in CR. He gets a byline credit in the CS Gazette pretty much every weekday but his writing seems to reflect a pro-Republican slant which is the style favored by that newspaper and evidently embraced by its readership. I am sure he is aware of this and just doing what he has to in order to meet the conditions of his internship but I cannot see him being to happy about having to do this when in a regular employment. I would imagine he has had a good chance to meet and talk with a wide variety of individuals in the Capital district since he started this gig and perhaps maybe one or more the contacts he has made will lead to something he will be able to embrace and enjoy as employment sometime in the near future whether it be in the Denver area, Colorado Springs, or elsewhere in the state or the region. His destiny or fate in that respect is better than mine in the shortterm thats for sure.

Well, time to wrap it up for now and I have more to add here very soon.

Yay Winter is finally half over!

With today being January 21, winter is officially about half over. With an approximate start date of October 15, 98 days have gone by and 98 days from now it will be April 29 and by then pretty much all winter weather is over and warmer weather is pretty much the case. Of course we can catch breaks sooner than that but having lived in WY for over 8 years I know that anything is possible deep into April and even May. And two years ago Laramie got a foot of heavy wet snow around June 8th that caused a lot of problems for the locals and travelers there. Hopefully here in Cheyenne it won't get even close to that point. This winter has been the worst in this region since 91-92. My truck is buried in a 5-6' snowdrift and the snow is frozen and hard so it won't be dug out for at least a couple of more weeks. The wind blows ruthlessly out here where I am staying and the property is covered with drifts that measure up to 8' in cases and there are bare spots in some places. We just need a week or two without any new snow and some warmer temps in the 50s so we can get some progress on melting. But thats probably asking for too much. I suspect there will be snow banks on this property as well others in the region probably into March and even April. Thank goodness I do not have to go anywhere too often and when I do, I just tag along with Brant in his 4WD truck for the long haul
(18 miles) into town.

I was hoping the Saints would get to the Super Bowl, but Chicago is winning big so they will be back in for the first time since 86 and the era of Da Bears and Ditka and the SuperBowl Shuffle and all those memorable players and characters. Who they will be up against is yet to be decided as I blog but I am picking the Patriots to go all the way again... who would have thought that a dynasty could be put together in this era?

Oh well, gotta send more emails and letters to congressmen and senators again this week so I can get my ID and cease being an Orwellian nonperson. It will be such a wonderful day when this happens... this very very very long winter of my discontent and depression has seemed to go on and on forever and days go by very slowly and in a blur usually with me reading, surfing, researching, and watching movies and TV to have the time go by. It's really quite sad that the government has done this to me and all because they want to be able to let immigrants in and take away rights and freedoms from American citizens. The future is quite grim for Americans and the government is pathetic in wanting to be agents of fortune for immigrants and corporations rather than represent lifelong American citizens. Woe is all of us regular people.

Ah my depression has got me rambling and pontificating with certain futility...

The view now is that I am going to stay and live here in WY again for the time being--probably the next two to three years, and then when Brant and his wife Sarah leave here and relocate to probably the Washington DC area or NC I will accompany them and live there in the same area as them for 5-7 years and then the plan is for them to buy real estate in the Caribbean, San Diego, or Hawaii . I will then go live there fulltime and be a caretaker for their property and only have to work parttime perhaps in a business that they start. Thats the vision that exists right now and for the future.

As for the shortterm, I will put CO in my rearview mirror as soon as possible and close the door on 10 years of life in that state that probably I will have to say was more unsatisfactory than satisfactory on balance. I did get to travel some, meet some good people, and become strongly familiar with the area. My greatest disappointment was never finding employment that I could live with and having to work at a number of jobs that were enormously unsatisfying and beneath my intelligence, education, and knowledge. The root of my life and all its problems has been this for over 25 years and it was only magnified in the last 10 considering all the education and experience I have accrued. Oh well, you can only butt your head up against walls over and over and over before you have to give up. I do not believe that will change as once you get to my age there is little in the ways of acceptable alternatives that are available to you. I want to be an adminstrator, a manager, a proprietor, an entrepreneur---not an employee, not a salesman, not a laborer, not an associate. I have had enough of being demeaned and insulted in those kinds of jobs.

Well enough out of me... Lets hope the friggin' weather gets better sooner and that my dreams, prayers, and wishes move closer to reality and best or better case scenarios eventuate both in my personal and professional life,