It has been a long time since I have posted here or even checked to see anything that I posted in the past.  But because of a dream I had this morning, I felt the need to write my thoughts out once again. I have used LiveJournal only a few times also.  Writing is a habit, and sometimes, it takes something special to start again posting our thoughts online.

Life changed so much for me once I moved out of Scottsdale.  Time has passed too quickly for my tastes, as I have not yet accomplished even half of what I have wanted to do.  But needing to air out my thoughts I am going to use this blog site to get some things off my chest this morning.

The dream first.  Two dreams I can recall from this morning which is quite strange to say  the least.  I dreamt that I was cooking bacon on a restaurant style grill, and there were two huge slabs of bacon that I was cooking for my Uncle Frank, who made me think of Elvis, and he was eating those hands over fist, until I got to the end of the two slabs where I said, these are for me. You cannot have these, as I wanted some of it too.  I did get my own share of the bacon.  I woke up to go to bathroom and back to sleep where I then work up from a dream of watching the children of Queen Marie Antoinette being taken from her to go to a prison cell.  My heart ached for those children as I watched them being led away by guards which made me wake up to feel sorrow for how badly the French Revolutionaries had treated this poor woman and her children.  I then thought of the man who had killed the people at the synagogue in Pittsburg wondering at how evil does exist in the world, how badly people can mistreat one another.  So it was a sorry way to begin this morning.
                                       
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But because I am desperate to win some money now, I am concentrating on winning the Breeders Cup group of races this coming Friday and Saturday.  Fortunately for me, I have friends on the Facebook group and found a way to learn how to bet the races this coming weekend.  Express Bet offers a free wagering guide with some advice from a variety of contributors on which horses to note for some hopefully winning tickets.

I downloaded their guide and have read it totally to gain knowledge that I would not have had otherwise. I do read everything that I can on both Horseracing Nation and the DRF but this group has included betting strategies which I needed to know.  I am ever so grateful to now know how to plan a winning ticket.  Hopefully this time next week I will have something good to post here.

People do sell information, but I am always leary of anything that may  be used by so many people that I do not ever even think about buying anything.  Odds are everything in racing, and a single bet of a thousand dollars or ten thousand dollars can cause a horse to be overbet so badly that its payoff is negligible.  Favorites always do that, as many people bet on show only just for what amounts to interest money.

Betting ten thousand dollars to just get back a thousand seems crazy but it happens.

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Change of thought again.  Just trying to get onto the page my thoughts at this time.  Very scattered but I am in crazy times.  I got very involved in the politics of the times.  For many years I stayed independent, as frankly, neither party is exemplary in any way from my point of view.  McGovern caused me to vote for Richard Nixon, but I never thought of myself as Republican.  I had been registered as a Democrat for some years when I was young.  I had liked both Adlai Stevenson and JFK for their so called intelligence.  Sadly, that turned out to be a false hope, and the Democrats soon proved to be worse than I had thought.  I did not become a Republican until I moved back to AZ and even at first here was Independent.  But finally I became a Republican to vote in the primaries.  The Democrats in Arizona are pretty bankrupt, appealing only to a limited group of people.  At one time, Arizona was ultra conservative, which did not help matters here either.  Neither party has anything much to brag about regarding state affairs since both appear to be corrupt within.

So today's Democrats have gone way off the beam, embracing ideas that are truly foreign to my idea of good government, embracing only minority goals, whether gay, transgender, abortion,  immigration, and clearly, Barack Obama proved to be only for importing Muslims into the USA instead of supporting veterans and Christians.  I turned against him so much that it is not funny, but he alone has done more harm to the Democratic party than any single person since George McGovern.  He is abysmal.

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My book on Alexander is still on hold. I am trying to finish reading my first draft, and then will try to rewrite it to a book of my liking. I actually still love parts of this as it is very interesting to me.  I am a bit concerned about when I can finish it now though.

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Because I am cooking a roast with two different methods going at once, I am going to close. I will explain a bit on the roast. One recipe called for 500 degree oven to be turned down to 475 for 7 minutes per pound.  I did do that, but am not turning it off to sit for 2 and 1/2 hours as suggested but using another that says to turn to 325 for an hour after cooking at 450 for 15 minutes.  I am going from 475 5o 325 for 45 minutes to an hour and then off for 2 and 1/2 hours.  I will see how that turns out.