i'vebeen more than a little remiss.
It has been months and much has happened that has occurred to me would go well here. Stuff in my life, stuff in the life of Arizona, stuff in the way of Tucson...lots of stuff. This is like that moment when you realise that the house REALLY needs a top to bottom cleaning, but the "OMGWTF This is too much for one mortal I'll go check my email instead!" demon drags you off. Willingly, yes, but dragging can be implied.
A pivotal point: The Hole is still there. Muse That Was is still just a forlorn hole in the ground, the mosquitoes that rise up from it a reminder that sometimes the 'annoyances and eyesores' that don't bite you and spread disease are very good eyesores indeed.
Also: The Family moved, AND we got a new member. Zachary Dawson was a noisy arrival back in November and has been charming the pants off of people ever since. He's still short on the full-night-sleep ethic, but this will come. He just learned to crawl with a purpose, can pull himself up and stand and cannot for the life of him understand why his feet won't do that magic thing that everyone but his can, namely catch him from falling so that he does that subtle thing we call 'walking'. In very short time, I suspect, he'll be charging through the house with all-fours a distant memory but still a useful tool in his repertoire.
We Moved,a s I said. The West Side of Tucson still has the most to offer us and we are still rollin the '45. I got a freakin' awesome patch of dez to call my own, a garage for my shizzle and a dedicated room (with a/c, canyoubeleiveit). I am a happy piglet in very choice poo.
Also, Arizona got a really petulant law. SB1070 has all the trappings of a typically ill-considered rant-made-law that the AZ legislatuture has made into an art form. Don't get me wrong: rule of law is a fine thing, when it applies to all. That includes the people who see fit to hire people who are here illegally but when they need something to lash out at target those same people with laws and protests. I'm far from saying I have a solution. I'm even further from saying I can come completely down on one side of the issue or another (being a fairly poor absolutist, as it turns out). I am saying that making what amounts to racial profiling the gold standard is so few hues away from something that was broadly called Jim Crow as makes little difference, at least to me, is bad policy. But don't take my word for it - the currently conservative Supreme Court seems to be in my camp as well. We'll see how they play their cards and to whom when it finally gets as far as that, assuming it does.
I got a new job. Yep, proof positive that there is actually a Green Economy and by the way, the Europeans have been at it for decades. I work for a German company that moved an arm here a couple years back to set up shop and see if the US needed a mature technological base to help it move into the 1990s. Turns out that we apparently did, that the competition seems to be spurring actual innovation and clever solutions in the US marketplace. Lets see if the domestic market can lobby those silly Euros back to the continent where they belong. Oh wait, minus the name, we're 99.4% Made in the USA as far as product goes. In other words: Suck It, faux-free-marketers. Man Up and compete.
Awright. The love of my life just got home from work & I need to go get some sleep. Be good to each other.
