Cut to the chase

Explanation why I have 4 main active blogs and 2 others that to date I am yet to blog upon: 
I realize that many might view my conscription of 4 major blogs as peculiar and in fact, perhaps unwise.  I decided that at the beginning of my blogging experience, I would not be served well by posting all of my content in one single blog.   I have a medical blog (CraigJasonBrennerMD.blogspot.com) that I may in fact use to some capacity for medical endeavors.   I regard the Sir Henry's blog as my side door... the Sir Walter's Backgammon Table as my back door... The Heresy and Good Fortune blog as my attic and the Tulip Patrol Blog as my front yard.  By visiting each of these, you may glimmer a better look upon the house that I have constructed here in cyberspace.  Thanks for being interested and willing to visit more than one venue of interest.  Of course, you can always find links to the various blogs on the right side of the blog under the "About me" column.   

Making Tea in a Better Burger King Store

I bought a good 6 cigars today. I must say that in the last year since I have started smoking these, I am now up to about 4-5 a week.   I am slighlty concerned with Laryngeal CA and marginally concerned with Oral CA.   ASCAD does cause me much consideration.  That said, I am not addicted, but enjoying the great pleasure of a smoke.  I did smoke cigarettes for a few years in college and it was easy to quit smoking.   I did not smoke for a good 16 years until now.  I do however have a small cough that surfaces once a day and I have noticed that my chest feels slightly irritated a bit.  So in that interest, I am predicting a slow down on the smoking which is about once every day or other day during the weekdays.

Shrugging Atlas Shrugged

War and Peace. A good read some have said. I got about 100 pages in, didn't know or understand any of the characters and put the book down.  Perhaps for good? I don't know.  Maybe I'll resurrect it someday. But it wont be any time soon.   I've got more to read than War and Peace.

As for Atlas Shrugged, I read enthusiactically the first 350 to 400 pages of what I remember was about700 pages.  Enthusiactically... But then I put the book down and never picked it up again.  It sat in our house for over 7-9 years.  I eventually picked up the tattered paperback and tossed it in the trash. Thats it. I shrugged Altas Shrugged. Ha Ha Ha.

Planting 60 daffodils on my property.  Lets see how they look in 5 more months!

Taxation

To those of you who are weary becuase of the taxes you pay to the United States of America.
Go home and get out a check and write it to the United States of America for 10,000,000,000. For that is how much you owe to have the priviledge of being an American. For all that was done before you were born by unknown and known people for centuries. For all the bloodshed that has given you the right to live in freedom. Put that check in your desk drawer and then don't feel so bad when you pay a small portion of that sum in taxes each year. It is a priviledge to be an American and have the freedoms you have enjoyed your entire lifetime.

Blunderbuss and eggnog shakes

I was just breifed by Mr. Glenn Beck that Mr. Obama has devised a number of new organizations to oversee many more oversights than even Mr. Roosevelt implemented for the New Deal. My impression- ok. No Problem. Start the shovel rolling and take a look in a few months and see which ones we should hold onto. The republicans have a good eye for overkill, but the Democrats are unified in their ideas of what is useful to our society. I was actually very impressed that Mr. Obama had so many ideas to bring forth. Very impressed indeed.

Wish you were here, explained.

This song echos from Classic Rock Stations around the globe.
Have you ever considered the power behind these lyrics? Here it is:
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
...A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
And cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war,
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

What does this say in English?
Do you think you know the difference between living well and living easy? Do you know where the money comes from that you want to live your life smelling in the back rooms of your mind? Do you like to eat cheese or would you rather buy a dime of "maybe I can". Did you leave your dreams of wisdom for a pretend film about people you'll never meet? Do you like your friends who are dedicated to your betterment or did you forget who you were really in love with who is really your Creator! From where did you get your satisfaction? A friendship or a final word? When you lost your way in life, did you ask for help from your inner voice or did you let yourself be dazzled by the microscopic rain in your head?
If you are two souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, did you realize that you were not with your own dreams but with the dreams of yesterdays plans conceived by fools and fiends?
This was a great song and I am glad that I think I know its meaning more now than I had considered in the past.