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Good Morning!
Coffee anyone? Freshly ground Kona coffee, smells wonderful, tastes even better!! Anyone use Dunkin’ coffee? I break down every once in a while and buy the beans, but it never lives up to the taste in the stores......my husband says it is the proximity to the grease in the doughnuts that makes it better there than at home! Maybe! Speaking of doughnuts, do you spell it donuts or as I do, doughnuts?
How many of you are heading to the city today (Boston) to hear the queen of the tea party speak? Somehow I doubt many visitors to Kate’s blog will be making the trek into the city. Dropped my husband off at the train this morning and it was the usual group no extras - maybe on the later train there might be more, but I doubt it. Nothing would please me more than to see substantially less than the 10,000 they are predicting. Of course, it will probably be many more.....depending on how many people have nothing else to do. I listen to the same radio station every morning until 10 cause it is usually pretty funny--this morning one of the guys that works on the station was going on and on about Sarah Palin, the tea party movement and as much as they tried to talk him down and pound some sense into him, he drank the kool-aid and I can tell you, he was having none of it. His misinformation was scary and that is what is wrong with all of this. They have picked out some lies, some big ones and keep expounding on it and people believe it. Makes me crazy.
My boss is a Republican and she and I manage to get along quite well - I talk she listens, she talks I listen, but yesterday she went off on the healthcare plan and how it was going to cost her big - how, I have no idea as she is a SMALL business owner and has her insurance through her husband. She does not provide me with insurance as I have my own so not sure where she is coming from. But she went on and on and on and I wanted to scream. But decided sometimes it is just better to shut up and tune out. So I did!!
I am getting back into the political arena locally as a woman I know and admire is running for a state position. Met her years ago on the Robert Reich campaign and we have more or less stayed in touch since then. She has asked me to help her on her campaign and I agreed (sometimes I need a reality check!). I told her I would give her as much time as I could so we will see.
My boss has asked me to work full time - I have worked part time for her for about 7 years now. Her business is picking up. she has just picked up a new. huge line to add to her companies she represents and anticipates needing more help. She is a manufacturer’s rep for furniture lines, one fabric line and one glass line - commercial, not residential. Anyone need anything, let me know!! I am her inside sales support person. Anyway, I work part time so that I have time to do volunteer work which I love and work on political campaigns etc. as they come along. I convinced her (I think) to hire someone else for the days I am not there as I absolutely do not want to spend more time in the office, particularly this time of year--assuming we have a real spring and summer this year!!
Planning our trip back to Oahu this summer now--will go in August for about 3 weeks again. Plane fares are outrageous though, I could go right now or next month for about half of what we will end up paying in August. Oh well.....I have LOTS of miles on my capital one card so will use them. We did not make it there last year cause of a few things out of our control, so am really looking forward to it. I would move there in a heartbeat if we could afford it. We do go around with a realtor-friend each time in the hopes we will see something we can afford but what I want and what we can afford are very different! Joe has convinced me there is no reason why, in a year or two, we can just rent something near the beach for 3-4 months each year which makes much more sense than owning something.
Got to go, work beckons......if you go to B-town, I want to hear all about it. 
I wish they’d dumped Sarah in the harbor. Perfect place for her.
I read that the tea party geniuses in charge of whipping up crowd enthusiasm at Boston Common today ended proceedings with a very loud rendition of (Sinatra’s) New York, New York, which every Red Sox fan knows is the NY Yankees home game ender. Went over real well, I hear. 
The local tea party nutters have a big event planned in Lowell tomorrow. Perhaps some of Jason Levin’s people will be there. Seems to me it would be hard to out-crazy this kind of crazy. It must take effort and a heck of a lot of imagination. I wonder if we could ever tell the difference. Good luck to him, though.
If you do plan a trip to Oahu this summer, let’s schedule a lunch!
Oh my god Kate, my keyboard is now swimming in ice water. I am laughing so hard over the New York, New York. I had not heard that one yet. How crazy is that......and why does it not surprise me?? I will be interested to hear how the Lowell rally goes. Crazy times. I am also loving the fact that Scott Brown all of a sudden wants to distance himself from the people who basically voted him in office. Another first I was for it, now I am against it, oh wait maybe I will be for it again kinda guy!
Linkmeister: For sure. Does your sister still manage the other Buzz’s?? Am holding off on the reservations in the hopes the costs go down. I figure they are not apt to go a lot higher so.........
She sure does.