False Hopes

Even though all signs pointed to it being a false hope, my New Year's wish was for a better year than the last. Personally, 2005 wasn't that bad but it was bad for friends, family, and the world in general.

In the first five days we've had 5 tornadoes in Georgia; wildfires all over Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico; flooding in California; and the waiting and false hope that the families of those miners have had to go through. Looming on the horizon; the Housing Bubble; the increase in credit card payments; the impact of the change in bankruptcy laws; instability in the inflation rate and the cost of gas and utilities; and, as always, Iraq and the anxiety of what's going to get blown up next.

Can we have a do-over?