Rudy Carrera

Today, I have the pleasure of introducing to the world Abigail Carrera. My niece was born mid-day, and she is as healthy as can be! Mom and kiddo are doing fine, and I’m sure pictures will be forthcoming when the time is right.

Never let it be said that I don’t have a knack for running into adventure. First, I spent my first day going nuts from cramps thanks to leaving cold air on in my car after a three-hour drive. Then, my poor brother, suffering from sinus problems, snores his brains out, shorting my first opportunity in days to get a quiet night’s sleep. Now today, in between getting propositioned by a hooker and waiting for a VERY slow housekeeping department sending someone to clean my abode, we get to witness commotion at the Federal Courthouse here in Las Vegas, where some nut went and murdered a security guard and wounded a federal agent. We were supposed to go for a business meeting tomorrow, and still will, but I must say today’s events left me a bit weirded out!

You can see some video taken from a cellphone during the shooting courtesy of Yahoo!’s news site.

Shame on you if you’re reading this at midnight of the end of the decade. Go back to your bottle of champagne and your loved ones!

Friends, welcome to RudyCarrera.com. If you were kind enough to link to me in the past, I thank you for it, and I ask you to update your links, simply deleting the “/wp” from your address bar. The site will be taken down within the next few months so that I can make more sites for each subject.

I will no longer be writing about politics here unless it has something personal to do with me. I’m now writing at Young Gun Conservative, and will make the occasional foray into political commentary there. For those friends and family who have a more liberal bent, I’d stay away. You might throw up.

As for this site, I’ve decided that after blogging every single day of 2009 mainly on the ugliness of politics and war from a Conservative standpoint, I thought I’d lighten up this year and post things I think you might enjoy reading. I’ll still continue to write on other subjects on the other sides (see the Blogroll for those), though I figure I’d rather just post interesting links to my main Facebook site (see the “About” page for info on that). The other thing I’m trying to fool with is a plug-in called ‘Mingle’, which purports to turn my website into a social media place. It doesn’t yet support embedding of videos (boo) or music (double-boo), but it may work a bit better than Facebook’s activity stream for the time being. I’ll be checking with the Mingle folks about whether or not there will be embedding functions added to their upgrades or not.

Those of you who know me well (family, Lily, Kenji, Steve S., Peter, Andres, John G. and others) know what a weird, tough year this was. I went from my home in California in order to move to Colorado hoping to find a future for myself after struggling with education cutbacks for years as a teacher. The grass wasn’t much greener, though the state truly is beautiful and I was welcomed with open arms not only by my friends who had moved earlier, but the community of Sts. Peter and Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church in Boulder and Father Christodoulos, whose kindness shown to me at his monastery will not be forgotten. However, going back was a blessing, as I get to see the family I love, the friends I missed, and the nieces who I get to spoil a bit. Some business ventures with my friends Fr. Don, Mark, Steven and Mike in Kuwait look promising. I get to see Lily sometime in the early part of the year after 14 months of waiting (im)patiently. I promised myself a trip back to Macedonia to visit friends come hell or high water at some point in the year because 7 years is way too long to be away from dear comrades. Last year was hellish. Perhaps a new decade means a new hope, God willing.

A prosperous new year to all of you, friends and family. Let’s all get started on the good foot!