I’m going out early in the morning to vote for incumbent Mayor Tom Menino. He’s hoping to win a 5th term in office. His challengers, Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon, are hoping to unseat him. So, is it time for change in Boston?
I like Tom. I’ve met him several times over the years. He’s one of the good guys. A couple of weeks ago, I met a man who was a former Boston firefighter who told me that Tom Menino helped him out several years back and does trust Flaherty at all. I don’t fell compelled to vote for the opposition.
Get out there and vote on Election Day tomorrow! Tom will appreciate it. Me too!
Former President Bill Clinton is campaigning via the telephone for incumbent Mayor Tom Menino. Clinton was out of the country when he recorded his message because he is unable to come to Boston to stump for Menino. The phone calls start tonight and straight up to Election Day, which is on Tuesday, November 3.
Sunday afternoon, I was doing my rounds with grocery shopping when I couldn’t start my car. I had to call AAA Road Service to jump start the battery. I drove it over to my mechanic’s garage. Both the AAA guy and my mechanic’s cashier guessed that it was the alternator.
I talked with my mechanic today. He told me that the alternator wasn’t working and it drained the energy out of my nearly 4-year-old car battery. I had to pay to replace both of them for my car.
Now, I only had my car back for at least three days before this new problem happened. At least, I should feel glad that I got my car back on Monday night. However, problems like this distract me from writing my blogs and short stories. I am determined to make money as an author and need to practice my craft. It seems like I am spending more money on my free time than making money. The contradiction is annoying.
Last Saturday night, I went with my movie meetup group to see the cult movie called The Room starring Tommy Wiseau at the Coolidge Corner theater in Brookline. I had a good time seeing the funny, badly acted movie! Couldn’t stop laughing at what I saw.
Trailer for The Room
After the movie, I walked back to my car that was parked a block away from the theater. What I saw was upsetting. The antenna on my Mustang was bent out of shape and the mirror on the passenger side was broken off and hanging by a cable. I couldn’t believe it. Coolidge Corner is supposed to be a safe neighborhood.
I reported it to my insurance company when I got home, and on the next day I drove my car over to the Brookline Police Station on Washington Street. Two policemen looked at my car and figured that a drunk must have viciously done this.
I got my car fixed and got it back on Thursday of this week. I have a brand new antenna and mirror. It cost me almost $145 for them.
I am annoyed that my car was attacked like this. A person demented to do this while drunk to a car can also be violent towards a person. So, this creep is somewhere out there. At least, the police are going to investigate, but this happened late at night on a Saturday. It’s a long shot on finding the person who did this.
Earlier this month, late night talk show host and comedian David Letterman confessed about his affairs with female staffers after a man allegedly blackmailing him about those affairs was arrested. The boss sleeping with the female employees is not a good thing to do, but I forgive Dave Letterman because he told us upfront about the affairs before the press could tell us.
Does this make Dave a hypocrite because he made jokes about politicians who cheated on their wives? No. Simply because of one fact: David Letterman is not a politician but a comedian. It’s his job to make fun of them.
Does this hurt his marriage? Certainly, Dave has revealed that his wife, Regina, is deeply hurt by his behavior. Although he recently married her in March, they have been together since 1986. He should have told her before he married her.
Does this make him a sexual predator in the office and is his office a hostile environment? No because none of the women have filed any formal complaints against him. It was consensual. In fact, before Dave did his on-air confession, none of them had gone to the gossip magazines or even wrote a tell-all book about him.
Of course, it is going to be interesting how all this is going to play out.
I’ve been so busy that I could only do blogging on Outside In and not here this month. I have had personal issues with getting my car repaired (I just got my car back tonight). First, there was the brakes not working properly and then the gas tank was leaking. I had to go to two different places to get each problem fixed. Also, I had my car key remote fixed as well. That thing stopped working back in November 2005. Now, I can use my remote again.
I am also focusing more on being a fiction writer and putting a few short stories together. On top of that, I had to go find some frames for my artwork because I am showing my artwork of the AANE Art Exhibit on Saturday, October 3, at the John Hancock Convention Center on 180 Berkeley Street in Boston from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The art show is in conjunction with AANE’s annual Fall conference.
I am also starting new exercise classes at work with two new instructors this month and checking up with my doctor about starting a new diet because I can’t seem to hone my muscles and reduce the fat in my abdomen. My arms and legs look great though. Go figure!
Hopefully, my blogging here at Uncommon Bostonian will pick up in the next few weeks.
Tomorrow’s the primary election for Boston Mayor. I’ve looked at all the candidates, but I keep on voting on Tom Menino, the incumbent mayor. The other three haven’t done enough to convince me to vote for one of them instead of Menino. Yes, they do have ideas, but do they have the leadership ability? Better yet, can they make their ideas become a reality?
That’s why I’m going to the polls and voting for Tom. I’m not against change, but I don’t see anything changing if I voted for one of them.
Sad day today in Boston and the rest of the country. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy died last night of cancer, just two weeks after his sister Eunice Shriver died. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor back in May 2008. He fought the disease, but in the end, he still wasn’t able to overcome it.
I’ve been watching coverage about Senator Ted Kennedy’s life on the television. He lived a long life.
Hard to believe that I started this second blog two years ago today. It was originally connected to a newspaper called Boston Now. During the first months of this blog, Boston Now featured this blog’s entries in their paper. When the newspaper folded in April 2008, this blog’s entries had been published at least 50 times. I was even featured as one of their top bloggers on their main web page just before the investors in Iceland pulled the plug.
I’ve kept the blog going since April 2008 by first moving it to AOL Journals. When AOL Journals shut down last October, I moved the Uncommon Bostonian Blog over to WordPress with my other blog, Outside In.
I enjoyed writing here and at the other blog, just to show how talented I am. I like to write about the news when I have the time. The last few months have been busy for me to make entries here. Yet, I soldier on with my own writing.
I think about how I am going to be making money as a writer these days and how I can I get a book out with my writings in it. So much planning going on right now.
After a brief delay because of Hurricane Bill, the Obamas arrived at Martha’s Vineyard for their vacation. President Barack Obama is taking a week-long vacation on the island and is rumored to visit the ailing Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis.
Back at home, Obama’s health care reform plan is still under hot debate. Others hope that the elderly Senator Kennedy can somehow smooth out the process of the health care plan, despite his absence in Washington, DC.
