9 Months Later

 I laughed typing that title, I'm certain the conspiratorial types are going to jump to some wild conclusions... well, I guess I do have six children so maybe not that wild.

Take a breath, there's no progeny associated with the title.

The last post as far as I can tell, was in January. A lot has changed since then, and yet not really that much about my mind. I bought out a competitor company in March and spent the next serveral months merging the two. I made a very thought-out investment of 2 years at 7-12s to get everything stable and working correctly, I'm 7 months into that process and have pretty much worked every day since. The company is stable, and we're cutting through the aquisition financing at a steady clip.

I do not attend any sort of church, I have no desire to. I do not hold to any sort of religious tradition, and quite frankly am not impressed much by any specific tradition. I used to think it was so sad that certain folks who 'left the faith' became bitter and antogonistic... then I began to understand exactly how destructive such religious ideas have been to people and families. There's an accepted level of poverty in Christianity that the membership is expected to be used to, and it is entirely unneccesary and only serves to gold-plate the flatware of the hierachy. There are some people I have known, since deceased, that were very antogonistic towards 'the church' and I wish I could go back and talk to them and apologize for not understanding. 

No need to discuss my feelings on that subject any more, I don't think it would help to release a single person from that prison. However I am happy to see people escape, and there have been a few that I have witnessed. I hope all at some point can escape.

I voted today; my preferred candidate was not on the ballot unfortunately. I expect this country has to hit bottom at some point before sense can win. I'm afraid the religious right are only making the problem worse though. Tough times are on the horizon, but not the apocalypse. Pragmatism must prevail if there is to be any motion.  

That's enough rambling for today. If you're reading this; why?

-Seth


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