Sorry I can't sound more excited. Call it a mixture of cabin fever and knowing I'm still three or four months, at best, from getting that Social Security settlement; I don't even have anything in writing saying I won my case yet, almost two months after the judge said I did. In the mean time I'm still living like a pauper, putting off medical care for financial reasons, stuck at home because I can't afford to go any place. 

I guess 2007 could have been a lot worse. We finally got our act together in Iraq despite the Democrats' best efforts. I finally got my Social Security hearing and won my case, and I managed to get off my butt long enough to get part of the pasture fenced for Sunshine.

2008? I guess it has possibilities but any country where people like Hillary Clinton and Mike Huckabee have even an outside chance of becoming President is a long way from the best of all possible worlds. I will have some money eventually but as wrung out as I've felt the last few weeks I wonder if I'll have enough energy to follow through on half the plans I made when I first learned I'd won my case. Things like getting Mom a hearing aid tand fencing the rest of the pasture like I promised I don't have any choice about. If I don't end up with a place of my own eventually I'll end up in a padded room somewhere, so I guess I'll probably follow through on getting my apartment built. I'm definitely going to start seeing more of my daughter and her family but right now Ft Worth seems like a long way from here, even in a decent car; I may have to split the trips there and back into smaller pieces than I have in the past; at least I'll be able to afford to stop when I need to instead of trying to drive farther than I should in one day to save the price of a motel room.

Don't mind me, folks. I'm just tired.