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.