Writing is fun!

There is nothing I enjoy more than writing. Okay, maybe sex, but writing does give me a high. I can sit for hours pounding away at the keys and when I finally run out of steam I feel exhausted and fulfilled.

How about our president going to Vietnam and making a speech about Iraq. Somebody on his staff has a screw loose. The older I get the more cynical I become on the subject of politics. I am currently reading Between Worlds by Upton Sinclair. This is the second in a series of eleven books dealing with World War I politics and going forward to the cold war. The main character, Lanny Budd, is an interesting youth and I look forward to reading about his further adventures.

Work is not fun anymore. Who am I kidding? It never was fun. Try working in a nuclear power plant, the money is excellent, the people intelligent, and the politics bizarre. Even intelligent people act stupid when they put their own agendas first and ignore everyone else. The longer I work the more Dilbertish situations I see. Believe it or not, my sojourn in the Navy was more enjoyable. Most of the people in the Navy looked out for each other. For sure there were backstabbers, I think that is the worlds third oldest profession after prostitution and politics. But most of the time in the navy I worked with a good crew, we worked hard and we partied hard.

Enough pontification and rambling for tonight. Time to polish up a story for my writers group.