I've been thinking! Blog #5 of 52

I have been thinking a lot lately - well actually procrastinating about a lot of the things I think about. Like this is my 5th blog out of my goal of 52 and my last one was written 3 months ago.

But it seems like it has been a busy 3 months. I've been to my Lodge meetings, helped with our DDGM's official visits, got elected as DDGM for the coming term and sorted through reams of papers and the like.

I have been busy preparing for my business launch but it is still in baby step mode.

I have been to every council meeting except one and most of the special meetings.

I have been on FaceBook - a procrastinators paradise and I bought a new computer that sits amongst the remnants of my old one that I still have to download 5 years of storage from.

I have been working 6 days a week until last weekend which has been a bit of a financial boost but it does wear you down a little and then there has been the weather. Snow does not seem to be enjoyable any more.

And of course we have an election here in Canada. I love politics or perhaps I should say I am interested in it and I love my country.

Which brings me to what I think about the most, Canada and where we are going or more like what the heck happened.

Even though our Prime Minister likes to toot that we are the best of a bad lot, I take little comfort in his words. Our premier in Ontario has a website called tough medicine for Ontario as if we are to blame for the situation we find ourselves in as a have-not province and locally we are being prepared for property tax increases as our leaders say they must or heaven forbid we cut some of the services most of us do not even use. It is an unacceptable mess and yet we are either too scared or complacent to do anything about it. I think that is wrong. We have the resources, we have engineers and designers that can match anything coming out of Japan or Germany. We are a lot closer to the largest consumer market in the world than China or India. I think it is time that we put the CAN back in CANada. We must be less fearful of the future and think our way in to it. Canada as a nation must not be a procrastiNATION.

Which brings me back to the election on May 2nd and a certain former US President that did more for his country than the media gives him credit for. Bill Clinton has a rule in politics - If one candidate is trying to scare you and another is trying to get you to think and if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other candidate is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the candidate who wants you to think and hope. Think about it and please vote on May 2nd.

Cheers
Mit