I've got the horse right here.....

First things first in the ‘World of Smith’.....last we heard, son Dave was in the city of Varanasi (?) in the State of Uttar Pranesh, India ‘n planning a trip to Nepal....I understand (a l’il bit) the geography of the USA but India boggles the brain....he hasn’t blogged for a while ‘n I was curious ‘n I e-mailed him....here’s his reply......

“Yeah, hopefully I can update tonight with a month old blog post. The
floods here knocked a lot of internet places for a loop and the place
that I'm staying doesn't have internet. The computers I've rented have
been pretty much limited to checking email. I go to Nepal tomorrow
night. Night train that's supposed to leave at 11:50pm but it's India
so who knows when that will be. It might be a while before I update.
I'll be up there for 2 or 3 weeks. It should be fun.”

Who’s gonna be Veep? The pundits are agog...(lovely underused word)...The Russians may well have started World War III (which c’d be the war to end all the damn wars)...The summer olympics are drawing to a close one record-breaking event after another...Florida is hunkered down under a mammoth rainstorm (it’s a record-breaking year in weather also) and, in this milestone election, all the chatter is about who’s gonna get the ‘bucket of spit’ job of Vice-President.....
The Obama Express may not have derailed but it seems to have been sidetracked for the moment while the McCain Slow Freight just keeps on chuggin’.......it’s kinda like the tortoise and the hare....the hare is a speed-racer, fast and flashy, a sure winner...while the tortoise is slow and clunky, bound to come in second in any match race...
As an old time gamblin’ man, I know that the race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong....but that’s the way to bet....’n just becuz I appear t’be hung up on proverbs t’day..... On that proverbial other hand...I know never to bet more than I can afford to lose and that’s there’s many a slip t’wixt the cup and the lip....
The pundits have been amazed that McCain has been staying close to even in the polls...the consensus was that Obama would be way ahead at this point....but sumthin’ happened....the polls now show Slowpoke McCain leading Obama....Shades of Truman beating Dewey...does the tortoise have a chance?

“Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you thru
When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true”