I am going to veer a bit today, even though it has been awhile since I've posted. The world is too much with us, as Mom used to say. Speaking of ...... if you want to know how she is doing, check Mom's Progress Blog. I try and stay ahead of it AMAP.
It seems as if the whole world was watching the Obama Inaugural ceremony on Tuesday (the 21st of January), via TV, the Internet, IPhone, smoke signals, whatever. And he assumes office in the worst possible circumstances for his country and the world. But he said something that resonated with me, and I am sure to a lot of people, especially in these days of Wall Street greed, massive ponzi schemes, corporate and media irresponsibility, and world wide tensions. He said,
"Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. "
In my humble opinion, that's a pretty good aim.
I've actually been doing a better job of keeping my Shagmiser Blog more-or-less up to date, so check it out for my latest scheme, er, opportunity. AND, the old standby, my Internet Retirement System web site is still cooking along. In fact, if you put that specific term into Google, I rank second. Now that's pretty good.
Not too much doings here @thebeach. Mid Winters just came and went. Jack and Becki came down from Charlotte for a visit, and we all headed to Fat Harold's for some cold beer and hot shag dancing (I'd call it shagging, but too many of you from outside the Grand Strand area would get the wrong idea). Speaking of shagging, I've posted some YouTube videos of some pretty good shaggers on my History of Shag web page. Check it out.
We have our new SC tags, and the one thing it does promote is http://travelsc.com/ right there on the tag itself. I have yet to check it out - maybe you should.
TTFN - We'll see you on the Strand and in the sand.
