Jack it's time to refinance.  What's up with the County form?  I can't figure it out.  What about the heating guys.  They won't return the form.  You would think people would want the business.  They're like us Kate.  They're tired after a long days work.  The numbers are going up again. Maybe we should go into heating.  I know there's a reason this is happening, and I'm sure I'll figure it out someday.  Meanwhile we'll be building in the middle of winter again.

This is weird.  I know.  All our numbers are popping up today.  I wonder if that's good or bad.  Let's go home and can. 
The dog won't leave me alone.  She loves you.  No really.  She won't leave me alone.  She's in my face.  Do you think we're going to have an earthquake?  Probably.  Guess what I learned Kate.  We did.  I didn't know they had earthquakes in Virginia, and what's up with Colorado.  I thought we were moving government operations there.  We should have bought that 20 acres in Republic.  Darn neighbors.  I miss the cat.  She was always the double check with the dog.  

8/28    12:08    What I've learned over the years is to take advantage of the moments that G_d gives you first thing in the morning.  To pray 5 times a day.  Be thankful for what you have, and never lose focus.  I think that's what the problem's been with my life for the last seven years.  Six depending on how you count.  So many unwanted people have inserted themselves in my life that I've lost focus.  And not just me.  The world in general has, and that's the problem.  Jack told me that in a recent poll of young people that Seattle rates number one in the top 10 of young people who just want to hook up as opposed to entering into a relationship.  What's sad is this statistic doesn't surprise me.  We've gotten away from family and community, and we wonder what's wrong with the world.  We're also the least likely to go to church, and why is that?  I don't go to church and that's because I go to Synagogue, but sometimes I wonder why it took me so long to find a place.  I love Torah study, and in fact Torah study is the highlight of my week.  I've said this before, but now I want to enhance it.  I don't care where you worship just worship someplace where they use a good book.  Worshipping is a way to build community.  Every year we read the same book, and every year someone has an epiphany that they didn't have the year before.  As far as I'm concerned, the Torah is the roadmap to happiness in life.  It's the framework to society, and the lessons we learn each week help our tribe become better people.   I've said this so many times to Jack that it's amazing how much my life follows the Torah.  Is this simply a coincidence or am I directing my destiny based on something I read last year or the year before.  I've made it a point not to read the Parsha before class to see how the week unfolds, and ironically not only my life follows the Torah but the world in general and so many members of the tribe.  My comedic brother reminds us of the blessings and curses, and that's where his family and former east coast community begins The Book.  His grandmother says that once you get past the blessings and curses, the rest of the book is a nice story.  I think that once you understand the blessings and the curses your path in life becomes easier.  The new year is approaching, and I was hoping that next year would be somewhat diffrent.  In one aspect I already know that it won't be because like the son the daughter has become her mother.  Yesterday she stopped, turned around, and glared at me as I went off to Torah study.  There is a pattern now in disrupting my Sabbath, and the family is participating jointly.  I wonder what happened in the parents lives to make them so mean spirited, and I wonder if they ever paid their last attorney.  

My brother says that people are attracted to me because they feel the goodness in my heart.  It's a big burden at times, but each day if I can make one persons life better that's all that matters.  I believe the same of Jack, and I believe the People that led Jack down the wrong path will try to insert themselves in our life again and I pray Jack will keep them away.  Our life is so much better without the distraction, and the nice thing is that our new and returning friends recognize the importance of keeping them at bay.  When your circle of life expands and becomes significant, you need to remember the circle and come back to what's important and that's the family.  In my opinion, that's what this new world leader has forgotten regardless of how many times he tells the country family is important.  We're at the bottom of the trough, and will move up economically as long as he comes to his senses and builds for the future. If he doesn't come to his senses, maybe we wander economically and spiritually for 33 more years.  Just kidding we'll remain in the trough, and that's not good for families.  Two more things before I end this early morning, and crawl back into bed with Jack.  There is no replacement for chocolate, but it's nice to know that in this day of processed food that you can make your own.  Mine's not the Chocolate Lounge in Anchorage, but Jack likes it and that's really all that matters.  The second thing is that I'll put The Diary of Ann Frank on my list of books to read when my knee goes bum like my Grandma's because it's been mentioned around me several times lately.  That and Maimonides.  Did I spell that right? 

It's been 14 years with her.  7 on this issue.  Imagine your first Christmas in your dream home.  Your new neighbor Sally comes by with babies in tow.   You think she's bringing you a pound cake.  Instead she threatens your dogs. 

Great to see you.  Did you finish your book yet?  Yes the one I wrote to King County, but I'm still working on the second.  Remember you told me you'd give me a copy.  Of course I will.  Great to see you again. 

 11122011

When a child my (Grandmother) taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms.  (The other) taught me to kneel and pray to (God) for strength, health, wisdom, and protection.  We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that (God) does not care for the petty quarrels of men.  .....From Geronimo

Vengeance = The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help me God on the World, Wide Web. 

The men = The Spitting Man, Ned, Jack, Scott, Cousin Pete, the Real Man of Alaska, the Court Jester, the Big Kahuna, the Retiree, Sleepy, Azazel, and The Fence.

The good books =  The Torah, The Bible, the Qu'ran, and the Farmer's Almanac. 

Through Chaos Comes Change = The Chaos you created with Sally needs to be corrected because you don't F$$k with a Harison.  Our God has my back side, and the land I purchased is sacred. 

Dear Scott =  You once said that Sally and Ned's house was a tear down house.  My response was that people like Jack and I don't tear down houses.  We live in them.  You were right.  Between the buried cesspool, the thousands of yards of fill from the highway 18 project that could be hazardous, and the fact that they put the trailer on fill makes it a tear down house.  God didn't want us to buy the trailer even though I kept trying.  Don't forget sky photographs don't lie, and thousands of people that rebuilt wetlands now need a refund because Dr. Martin Luther King County never held Sally and Ned accountable for the destruction.  The Hearing Examiner used sky photographs to decide Jacks compensation from the last wicked neighbors destruction in the old hood.  I didn't see that email in the public disclosure. 

If you were catapulted into an awaking and can't explain what it is, then perhaps you should seek a spiritual advisor.  If you feel what ever is happening around you is both spiritual and controlled, then perhaps you should seek a spiritual advisor.  If you think you should find a Shaman in North Carolina and then find out that intuitively you've been channeling the dead, then perhaps you should seek a spiritual advisor.  If you feel you know the secret and you've never read the book, then perhaps you should seek a spiritual advisor.  Most of all recognize that you're not alone, and the people that know the secret will understand.  You just need to be open to finding them, and they'll come to you.   If you write "Perhaps we would have been better served to have called the Ghostbusters", then maybe you're right. 

Sally, Sally, Sally, no Jack.

Self-deception has ruined many success-bound careers.  Here are three daily reminders used by W. Clement Stone:  1) Have the courage to say no.  2) Have the courage to face the truth.  3) Do the right thing because it is right.  I would add a fourth....  Don't work for someone who spins the truth. 

Have you moved from playing chess games with our life to hide and go seek.  Dear three fine fellows plus two:  Come out. Come out. Wherever you are.  11/15/2011  7:08 a.m.  That one's for your Papa Joe!  Greetings from Fairbanks.  The home of my Dreamcatcher!

Ask the right questions Jack, and the decision is yours.  I'll support you on whatever you decide, and remember that the third time may be the charm.  Ironically my necklace that the TSA nazi had me expose lines up with your decision. 

You're not going to believe this, but we'll be living in a triangle.  NFW.  I have history there, and still save the voicemail from Jen where she tries to extort money from me in order to return the Jeep.  That seems like a lifetime ago. 

11292011  Jack and I woke up at the exact same time in the middle of the night.  I wonder how many other people woke up at that exact same time.