Rant #2,495: You Make Me Feel Brand New

Yes, I did oversleep again.

Due to the wet weather we had yesterday in my neck of the woods, my body was barking last night really bad.

I watched WWE wrestling--the Monday Night Raw show--with my son, and fell asleep midway through it.

But I did wake up to see the supposed marriage between two wrestlers--Lana and Bobby Lashley--which is a storyline that has gone on for way too long on the show. If you don't know anything about it, on the show, Lana was married to another wrestler--the Bulgarian, Rusev--but all of a sudden has the hots for Lashley, one thing led to another, and Lana and Lashley were to be married on the show yesterday.

(As an aside, in real life, Lana and Rusev are happily married and Lashley has just left his long-time partner, herself a former wrestler, with whom he has a couple of children with.)

Anyway, as wrestling weddings on the show go, this one went into the toilet, with former suitors of both Lana and Lashley--both male and female--throwing the whole wedding off balance.

And the inevitable happens, which is that Rusev was hiding in the massive wedding cake, and ends up beating Lashley to a pulp.

After taking what amounted to a nap, this whole thing woke me up but good, but for the entire three-hour show, I was hurting, and I had to move around a bit until I found a good place to sit. I guess all the moving around, and the hurting, put me to sleep, but after this sham marriage played out, it just woke me up, and my left side was hurting bad.

I tried to sleep in the bed, but I was really in pain. I moved back to the living room, where I watched the show with my son, and I finally conked out on a chair we have in there that opens up and you can put your legs out on it.

Some time after that, I crawled into bed, and that was that for me.

I admit that I simply could not get up this morning, the final morning of the year 2019.

Not only do I hurt, but this was a hurting year for me.

Constant threats of unemployment were realized throughout the year, culminating with the inevitable on October 10, and nearly three months later, I am no closer to finding a job than I was on Day One.

My father has been sick off and on the past three months or so, but he seems to have made a remarkable recovery, and we should all be as healthy as my 88-year-old parents are when we hopefully reach that age.

Other than that, this year was another spoke on the wheel, another notch on the board, really not much of a year to remember.

I, personally, look forward to the ball dropping and being rid of this year.

I need a new start, and the coming of 2020 seems to be the new start that I need.

This should be an interesting year, not just for me personally, but more importantly, for the nation as a whole. We vote for president in November, and just let me say right now the following: let's see what happens.

As I alluded to yesterday, our nation is badly in need of repair, yet the U.S.A. remains the greatest country to live in in the entire world. There is no place else that presents so many great opportunities, and the more some of us try to put us down and change what we have, the stronger we become.

We are not perfect, but name me a better place to be--you can't, because this country is, and will remain, head and shoulders above everywhere else.

So what is my New Year's wish?

It is simple: health and prosperity for us all.

I will speak to you again on Thursday.

Have a Happy New Year!