Blogless

I haven’t had a good blog in a long time. I still have a lot of things to say about hiking the AT, but that seems to have faded into insignificance now. Kiwi, the hiker we hiked through the cold Smokey Mountain National Park and who was with us the evening I hurt my knee for the first time will finish the trail this week. When we left the trail he was one day ahead of us, and last week he was hiking with one of the hikers we were with just before we quit. Congratulations Kiwi.

We are hoping now that we can return to Virginia and hike from the place where we left the trail to Harper’s Ferry next spring. That will take us about 5 weeks if my knee will hold up. I am trying to strengthen the muscles in the leg so I will be able to at least give it a try.

So if not the trail, what shall I blog about? I have lots of insights into scripture as I read and study on a daily basis. But I am not fleshing those out very much these days.

It is political season, but I am about fed up with the political system. We had such a great time on the trail NOT listening to or watching political news we just kind of decided that we would not resume when we got home. So since we left in March we haven’t listened to or watched Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Alan Combes, Bill OReilly, or any other political pundit, left or right.

I have a fantasy football team for the third year. I am not very good at it. The first year I place next to last giving me the second pick in the second year draft. The first pick, Tony Wolff took the player I wanted and I had to settle for LaDainian Tomlinson who turned out to be the very best fantasy football player. So I finished in second place. I may have been the only fantasy football owner in the whole nation who had LT on his/her team and didn’t finish in first place. So this year I had the next to the last pick again and in each round I drafted the best available player according to ESPN.com and this week I am going to lose to the player, Sean Patrick, who drafted after me. He has three players playing tonight on Monday night football, QB, WR, and his Kicker. He is only 5.5 points behind me. All my players have played. I wonder if they have fantasy golf and I could get Tiger Woods.

Other than fantasy though, it was a good sports weekend. BYU and Utah both lost, Utah to a Mountain West Conference team. New Mexico beat New Mexico State. The Yankees won two and are now 4 games ahead in the wild card race for the playoffs. And the Broncos pulled out a close one. It has been a long time since they won a close game that came down to the wire.

I am having trouble getting into the presidential race. I shudder at the very thought of having to listen to Hillary. Her voice alone grates on my nerves, never mind the way the things she says grate on my sensibilities. When she is talking she sounds like she is either whining or nagging, and sometimes both. I can’t imagine what life would be like should she win. On the republican side I could never vote for Mitt Romney. I will probably write a blog soon on why I don’t think a Mormon president is a good thing. Rudy Guiliani has not been a conservative although he is tough on foreign policy. I like Mike Huckabee but I am not sure he can win. Fred Thompson may be the best choice but I don’t know much about him at this point. And political blogs are boring, don’t you think? Look at Mike Huckabee’s answer to the creation question here.

Great job Mike.

My time has been taken up the last few weeks with events in our state convention where I am finishing my second term as president. I cannot be elected to a third term so that is coming to an end, PTL. That has been a time of stress and I don’t want to write about it. You don’t need to know all about it and I don’t need to go over it again.

I have read a couple of good books I could recommend. “Manhunt” is the story of the search for John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Lincoln. “Brutal Journey” is about the Spanish Conquistadores who invaded Florida. The one I am reading now is “The Worst Bad Time” about the dust bowl days of the 1930’s. I recommend them all.

I put the AOL widget on my blog, over to the right. When it says “Rodger is online” it means I am just waiting to hear from you. So tell me howdy when you drop in. We don’t have to talk for long. Hopefully I can get inspired to blog soon.