Dumbest!

Now, as most of you are aware, or at least I hope you are, I've had a total meltdown with my system and had to buy a whole new computer, much to the dismay of SWMBO as you surely understand.  But.......My firm position of the oldest old fart on the planet does give me some advantage and she, being the wonderful woman she is does go out of her way at times to indulge me.  This could be from the simple ascertation that she can't stand to see a grown man cry.  Of this I am not sure but one thing I did learn as a child growing up in the wilds of Western Washington was to never look a gift horse in the mouth.  Not that anyone ever gave me a horse I must admit but you get the idea I'm sure.

But as all of you know who have gone down this road, new computers take a load of time and even greater loads of loud swearing before they are really ready for use.  And as this is at least the umpteenth time I have done this, (Remember I started playing with/swearing at these things over 50 years ago.) the swearing has been at a seriously high level I can assure you.  A lot of it stemming from my weakening brain cells in the memory compartment. 

At least I now believe that I am pretty well advanced enough to be able to get back to the basis of what this is supposed to be about.  i.e. Short term goal: Doing all that is in my feeble power to make certain McSlime and Tillie from the Tundra do not get any where near the White House.

But this entails serious complications also.  Like being over 5 days witout any Internet access.  Which is closely aligned to having your right arm chopped off and both your eyes poked out with a sharp stick.  Because, here in Spain, they do not look at the American election campaign/exclusive circus for madmen with quite the same intensity as you do over there.   There are more important things in this part of the world.  Like Real Madrid losing 2-1 to Juventus just the other night which is serious shit to be certain.  Which means that with out my little electronic connection to that other world most of you inhabit I don't know shit about what's been going on over there.

Of course, even this far away we have heard of Joe the plumber.  But who he was, what he did, and how the hell he got involved in the election of the American President was quite beyond even the most savvy pundits.  Even with the help of the very intelligent and vastly capeable TVE (One if the State owned TV channels here) New York correspondent, the lovely Rosa who tries her hardest.   I don't believe very many Spainards have even the slightest clue as to what goes on over there.  Although I have just read that they have taken a poll here asking which candidate in the American election would you vote for if this was possible and only 8% said they would vote for McSlime so perhaps they are better informed than I thought.  So I have been doing my all in an effort to catch up which has been further hindered by the fact that part of the family is visiting.  And they insist on dragging me off to verious dens of iniquity where foods I am not supposed to eat are forced upon me and certain large quantaties of a red liquid I have been known to be overly partial to is forced between my tightly pressed lips.  Which does take up time.  What it is doing to my poor weary old diaebetic body will be revealed today as I have an appointment with the medicine man wahlla later this very morning.  (It is now, by the clock in the right hand corner of this infernal machine, 0651 in the AM and I've already been at this a couple of hours.)