gritty musings...Bright Shiny Pennies

chefkbr@gmail.com another fantastic trip to our tiny Mayan island in the sun...flying as any of you who do it is basically southwest  and the rest...i know, i know the poor airline companies barely make a profit...they are going broke allowing  us to fly for below cost...I'm calling bullshit on that...just like their is a reason gas prices fluctuate with intestinal pressure of some sheik watching re-runs of "I dream of Genie"...but i digress...this ones is for passport control in the good ole US of A...so we return to Ft Lauderdale International airport, which is like calling a 7 eleven, a walmart...anyway so we are herded into a large hall...after deplaning with the thousand or so people who came in on the three planes that arrived simultaneously... it's taking a really long time...an hour passes and finally i get to front of the line and realize what is taking so fucking long...citizens with blue US passports...lots of them...cannot read or understand the English

I just noticed that i haven't written in the blog for months...work has been hard...harder than normal...growing another restaurant through the changes and growth spurts...training and raising up a staff ...dealing with the resulting changes brought on by a table saw...i have a literal new grip on life...i woke up not too too long ago 40 pounds heavier and probably the unhealthiest I have been in my adult life... so ...politics and all the very important triviality that surrounds it has fallen under my radar..i am starting to read again...trying to find a foothold in the slippery slope that is a two party system...i am at best disappointed in my party and my president...yet i know that the other side is bought and paid for by folks who could give a shit if i lived or was run over by a mob of disaffected water buffalo...so i changed my diet...started swimming again...lost those forty pounds and working very hard to grab about twenty more...go to the gym...which in its social atmosph