Another laundry list, why is anyone surprised

So last night was the monthly running club meeting.  I had told Cindy I would wait to eat dinner with her after the meeting so I was hoping the meeting would not run very long.  After all we are now in summer season which is the slow season for running events, there shouldn’t be much to talk about.  Yea, right.  The meeting ran two plus hours, not winding up until after 8PM.  As usual I emerged from the meeting with 6 or 7 things tossed onto my back to address/implement.  In recent months I have found my tolerance for addressing the seemingly endless requests to manage, invent, implement, promote, coordinate and solve wearing very thin.  I need something to recharge my motivational batteries.  When I look at the race calendar all I see is more and more work, so much that the light at the end of the tunnel is totally obliterated.  The reward to effort formula is totally out of whack.

So the news has been filled with coverage of the ISIS forces taking back major cities in Iraq.  There have been stories acting like the idea of Iraq falling back into the hands of militant extremists was a surprising, unforeseen event. Cut me a fcking break.  Anyone with minimal intelligence predicted eons ago that once we militarily withdrew from Iraq the country was going to fall back into disarray.  Chaos is the natural state of things in that part of the world, our involvement in Iraq had nothing to do with changing it, it was all about making money for military contractors and little else.  For the media to portray Iraq falling apart as some big unexpected tragedy is ridiculous.  We all knew this was the eventual outcome. Let it burn.