My Best Friend (of the furry kind) and I

I want this song played at my wake.

Keep Me In Your Heart - Warren Zevon

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile
If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile
When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for while
There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for while
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while
Sometimes when you're doing simple things around the house
Maybe you'll think of me and smile
You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on your blouse
Keep me in your heart for while
Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams
Touch me as I fall into view
When the winter comes keep the fires lit
And I will be right next to you
Engine driver's headed north to Pleasant Stream
Keep me in your heart for while
These wheels keep turning but they're running out of steam
Keep me in your heart for while
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while
Keep me in your heart for while

I would send this to someone...

if I didn't know it to be completely true.

This is...

by far, my favorite picture of me.

I have gotten a number of positive compliments on it and it makes me...happy...I guess.

Longing for Spitzer

Op-Ed Columnist - How to Train a Governor - NYTimes.com:

"In a state capital where anybody who is anybody is under indictment, he managed to completely alienate the public just by being terrible at his job.

Who knew people were paying that much attention?"

Not really back but...

I needed to make an observation.

One of the nice things about getting up early and walking the dog is that I can see people doing walks of shame. 

It always makes my heart jump and a smile to appear on my face.

It's all about bad decisions on a Friday night, you know?

Step aside children

FAU here, guest blogging for A Mistake who is still on hiatus. 

Your regular blogger sent me this post along with a note about his frustrations with our Governor. I have to say that I agree whole heartily. 

After his initial "good will" wore off, Gov. Paterson has shown himself to be dysfunctional both as a leader and as a human being. His cannot seem to steer the ship of state in any direction (let alone the right one) and he is aided in this aimless quest by his old colleague, State Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith. 

Sen. Smith is ineffective at best and a liar at worst. A Mistake considers him to be "a deceitful bastard with no common sense who is only using the GLBT crowd as an ATM" (his words not mine). Indeed Smith quickly backed down from supporting gay marriage in New York after being unable to keep support within his own party and choose power over doing the right thing (namely calling the "gang of three" on their bluff, letting them go and moving on).

So in these times of financial upheaval, the responsibility to run the third largest state economy in the U.S. falls on Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. Now that might be OK, but for the fact that Patterson and Smith insist that yes, they actually DO have power and they want to exert it. So we are left with Three Men in a Room who can't agree and a growing budget gap that gets bigger by the day (thanks to All Over Albany for the last two links).

And now we may have state employee layoffs which will be extremely problematic for the Albany economy.

Great. I just want to call Patterson and Smith to say "can you please step aside and let the adults run this state?" 

Sigh. It is an embarrassment how New York is being run. When does our next Governor get sworn in?