I ran across a quote from Ernest Hemingway that I had to copy down: Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut! That was a lesson that came hard but it was a good one to learn. It was hard to save face when I said I could move mountains at night only to find the next day that all I could manage were a few shovelfuls.
I doubt whether the present presidential contenders drink much on the campaign trail, but they do seem inebriated with the attention given to them whenever they dismount their bus and start shaking hands with the crowds. So many promises get made, but those of us who have lived through lots of these campaigns know better. The reality of the office must be overwhelming to anyone who gets in there....
News from the oil patch in North Dakota keeps coming. In order to get a troublemaker out of Aspen, Colorado someone there bought him a bus ticket so he could come to North Dakota and get one of the plentiful jobs working in the oil boom. He already has had offers from a few people here to buy him a bus ticket back and get him out of here. It seems he got drunk when he got off the bus and urinated on the side of a building, so he's spent the last week in jail. He wants to go back to Aspen.
Reference to a great animated video appeared on www.northdecoder.com a couple of days ago under the blog headed "Weekenders (Year Enders?). It depicts the growth of oil drilling in NW North Dakota, and I could only think "Wow!" after watching it play to the end - it takes less than a minute.
Happy New Year!
I doubt whether the present presidential contenders drink much on the campaign trail, but they do seem inebriated with the attention given to them whenever they dismount their bus and start shaking hands with the crowds. So many promises get made, but those of us who have lived through lots of these campaigns know better. The reality of the office must be overwhelming to anyone who gets in there....
News from the oil patch in North Dakota keeps coming. In order to get a troublemaker out of Aspen, Colorado someone there bought him a bus ticket so he could come to North Dakota and get one of the plentiful jobs working in the oil boom. He already has had offers from a few people here to buy him a bus ticket back and get him out of here. It seems he got drunk when he got off the bus and urinated on the side of a building, so he's spent the last week in jail. He wants to go back to Aspen.
Reference to a great animated video appeared on www.northdecoder.com a couple of days ago under the blog headed "Weekenders (Year Enders?). It depicts the growth of oil drilling in NW North Dakota, and I could only think "Wow!" after watching it play to the end - it takes less than a minute.
Happy New Year!
