Santi Ficarnos

Tomato has been cleared of the chargers of making several hundred people sick in the last month or so, and the finger has been pointed at the jalapeno pepper. I knew the tomato would be cleared he is one of the life bloods in the Italian family, with out tomato’s an Italian would starve to death. The nasty little pepper is something we can live without, although I do like Spanish food from time to time. I will have to wait till the all clear is given before I have Spanish food again, I can make it on spaghetti if I have to.

Interstate 40 East of Nashville has been closed for almost the whole weekend after a tanker truck with toxic cargo overturned near Cookeville. This is one weekend I am glad I had no plans to travel east of here. They finally got the interstate open this morning after almost 40 hours. They evacuated a two mile circle around the accident site due to the volatile nature of the poison they were hauling. Kinda makes you wonder what the stuff was and where they were taking it to dump. No sane state would allow this stuff to be dumped in their ground or and dump.

Just got a disturbing phone call from my sister in Oklahoma, they have put my 93 year old grandmother in a nursing home, the aunt that has been taking care of her now has decided to sell her house and what little land she has, I am sure that money will disappear like much of the money my grandmother had has vanished. We are going to try and get out there to see grandma as soon as we can. I hate to get bad news on the phone it is very depressing.

It looks like the dream that Hillary Clinton had of becoming President of the United States is coming to an end today, I am not sure if she will be on the ticket in November as the Vice Presidential candidate, I for one hope not, I can not dream of her being a heart beat away from being the leader of our country. It looks like holes are forming in John McCain’s strategy and he is fading quickly. It is a long time till the election and funny things happen in every election.

As I was trying to get to the bank before 5 pm I ran into a grid lock and later I found out it was caused by a broken gas main. It is bad enough to have Friday traffic compounded by a road completely shut down. Plus they had to evacuate the bank so it was a totally wasted trip. I think I will just go to bed and see if tomorrow is a better day. I do not know how many more days like today I can have before I have a complete melt down.