To all a very big thank you.

this is a general update.I havent been writing in months.So much has happened but it is more for the better.The first piece of news is this.Brad has been sober for 3 months...It is remarkable that he has gone without booze and i am without having these drinking buddies here because they are bad news.I have never met a bunch of whiners in my life.One of them is always complaining about his wife.Good grief man! Can you at least get a life! This is a very complicated world today and there are other things to do in seattle besides drowning your sorrows with booze.There are people here now that are worse off then he is.Up north there are 400 people who are stranded by the flood because the road was cut off because a tree fell down and they had a mud slide.Some of them havent left their homes in 5 days and some of them havent eaten..Can you imagine this? So why is he complaining? Excuse me! And I dont even go to the wives support group anymore because those women are depressing.And I doubt if anyone of them has read a book,gone to a museum..gone to the ballet since the 8th grade...and it is a pity that certain people feel that they are special and the world centers around them..it doesnt...And this atittude that woe is me is increasing and I am sorry.I dont have the time to listen.It will be 5 years that Frank is gone and when I work.I work.I come in early and have my coffee in the cafertia..I read the paper at my desk until lunch time.I take at least 3 bathroom breaks and when it comes 12.30..I am gone.I usually go outside and read my books on the curbs.And I work with these people.I work with them.And all of these happy hours and fellowship meetings are nothing but a waste of time.I have got different interests and other things that I like..and when I tell people what I like..they cringe and I am sorry..I was born in 1947.I grew up in a different time then you.I have got different taste in music and movies so why is everyone holding this against me? And I want to say this...There are at least 76 million baby boomers.And I am one of the poor ones.I dont have 3 houses or have ever made 100.000.00 a year! I am a low income baby boomer and low income people have been ignored or written about.And as for being self indulgent...well excuse me! I dont have any children and I have never married and I made this decision in 1965 when I was 18 and I realized that life with him would be a waste and I refused then and I refused now..so lets hear it for people who have chosen not to get married and have children! Lets hear it for us! What about our scarifrices in the work place? What about us when we are made victims by working your hours because you married people have got children and you have to go to a silly baseball game...And why do you think that women with small children arent hired by these high powered places in New York? We know what to expect! So ladies..do the employers a favor..get your degree first...a degree will enable you to get the job that you want...why do you need a man ? I have always made my own money...and men...any money that I have is mine..it is not yours..and even If I win the lottery..it is my money and because you dont have the dough to send your kids to camp or college...you should have thought of this before you had them..so dont aske me for any more favors or handouts..because I am disabled now and I dont have the income that I should..and dont have the gall to ask me even for 20.00 because I wont give it to you ,your children or grandchildren..They can all get a job...And dont forget it...I am doing stuff in my life that I couldnt do because my sainted father was sick the last 20 years of his life and we almost lost him and I am doing the stuff that he couldnt do..and as for my brother..I am going to go a tail gaters party on superbowl sunday and root for whatever team that it is in! Life is for the living and when anyone does meet me..they dont even suspect that I am going thru a depression because my late grandfather and father instilled in me..if you have got problems go to a professional...dont not involve anyone else in whatever you are doing thru because they dont have the time,nor the money or the education to help you and these sainted people are right.!