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***Well, three days to go.

Things are moving along pretty well and all, and I am a bit surprised at that… I can see how they are turning, but hopefully we have another 72 hours of civility left. ***

I use firefox as my web browser. This is primarily because there is an inline spell-check feature, and I am possibly the world’s worst typist. Seriously, awful. Another brilliant thing about it is a little app called “Stumble Upon”. The way it works is that you fill in some preferences, and it grabs random websites every time you hit the button… way too addictive. Anyway, last night I am stumbling and I land on one of those “divorce recovery” websites – the specific page was an article about how to determine when you were ready to find someone new. Interesting reading really, I actually wish I had read it before I was married, because never mind post divorce; according to this thing I wasn’t ready the first time either. Which is actually true, I wasn’t even close to ready. But who is?

The thing I love about this blog is that it gives me a place to remember honesty, and the more I have thought about it, the more I have realized that Honesty is the lynch-pin of any relationship. Nothing groundbreaking there I know. Most will say communication is the most important thing, but contend that without honesty, communication is worthless. It is the hardest thing to keep alive between two people, and the kicker is that if you do manage to maintain it, if it isn’t applied correctly it can destroy things in and of itself. It’s a bit like the days where railroad workers were making nitroglycerine, one wrong move and you go BOOM, but without it, there is no point in being there because there is no progress. In the old days, they had a serious problem in the manufacturing process, you have to stir it very slowly for a relatively long time, people would fall asleep and knock it over (it is EXTREMELY volatile) hence the “BOOM” above. The solution to this is actually pretty ingenious, they would have the poor chap stirring the mixture sit on an inverted cone, so that his legs formed the other 2 “legs” of the chair, if they started dozing they felt themselves go off balance and generally corrected and woke up.

So what I want to know is; where do I get the cone chair?