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This is a picture from New Year’s Eve. Looks like we’re not going to get around to posting all the pictures. Next time you’re at our house, we can look at them on the TV downstairs.

Some personal good news lately, to counteract the unbelievably depressing political state we live in these days (ah, but never fear, I’ll get to that in a minute!): My friend Kim got a new job. This is a Very Good Thing — her God seems to be working in mysterious ways. I’d call it Karma, if it were my situation. We are going to visit Arushi and Shyamal in Seattle some time soon. Mom and Dad are (finally!) getting the hell out of Texas, and moving back to Washington State this spring or summer. Leslie is doing yoga with me at lunch. They have just bought a new house, and although they will be living farther away, it’s a great investment for them. It rained all day today, and most of yesterday afternoon and evening. I love rain. We went to Gay Bingo at the Lakewood Theatre last weekend and had a blast, even though we did not get to sit with our friends. Who knew that bingo could be so much fun?? Both Doc and I were one square away from winning on several occasions. The greatest moment of the evening, though, was watching a marriage proposal on stage. The women got a standing ovation. I think next time I’ll make a $10 donation to the Gay and Lesbian Resource Center of Dallas and get Bruce thrown in Bingo Jail for a game. 🙂

This is Yoga Master Bruce doing Face In Plant Pose. Just off-camera is Doc, doing Vomiting Swan Pose, and Brittney couldn’t make it because she was still at the office doing Evil Employer Pose, which works every muscle but provides little benefit.

The latest from the Daily MisLeader: “President Bush, attempting to obscure his record as the worst economic steward since Herbert Hoover, has become so desperate that he is exploring ways to manipulate statistics. Just days after Bush reneged on his pledge to create 2.6 million jobs and said with a straight face that “5.6% unemployment is a good national number,” the New York Times uncovered a White House report showing that the president is considering re-classifying low-paid fast food jobs as “manufacturing jobs” as a way to hide the massive manufacturing job losses that have occurred during his term.”

All this is making me want to plead with Ralph Nader not to run. And I voted for Ralph wholeheartedly in 2000. Damn. My pledge to always vote my conscience has run up against the brick wall of accepting the fact that politics is a horrible, venomous game and my vote means a whole lot more than just my conscience this time around. Although, frankly, living in this hellhole state, it won’t matter who I vote for.