Hello? Is this mic on? [Darleen Click]

Sorry for dropping out for a bit … between computer issues (damn you, Microsoft!), countdown to BabyWatch 2016 (#3 preggers with her first, (a girl!) and due in 5 weeks, I’ve been in high-alert grandma mode – co-hostessing a baby shower, finishing a crocheted blanket, did 3 watercolor paintings for nursery … eek) and being generally put off by politics …

… on the other hand, my 87 y/o dad is having a ball … he says as nasty as this all is, it doesn’t quite compare to the Truman/Dewey match up of 1948. In addition, he states listening to Sanders is deja vu to Norman Thomas. Commie Thomas was very popular with the college kids of the day; though since Dad was just starting college at 20 y/o after three years in the army (46-48 in Japan), he figured they were all as sheltered snowflakes as today’s Bernardistas. Dad says this is the most entertaining election he’s experienced.

Yes, entertaining is the word he uses. Heh.

I’ll be back soon … have a couple of other projects that got severely delayed and I need to attend to them. It means a little extra scratch towards our trip to Japan this fall. (yes, I’m also spending time each day learning conversational Japanese, punishment glutton that I am)

Please, I know many of you have posting privileges. Get crackin’!