Category: current events
02/13/09 09:22 - 24ºF - ID#47741
The Crash
It's a strange feeling that I don't know if I can adequately articulate right. Aside from the shock of the plane crash and the sadness over the deaths, I'm feeling a strange sensation to see something so horrific happen in a place I know too well.
It's interesting. My folks house isn't far off one of the flight paths in Clarence. Usually if you are flying in from the east, you are out over where all the calamity occurs. Usually you get to peacefullly glide over Eastern Hills and Transitown before touching down, having done it a hundred times myself. My mom told me that her dad once said something about eventually a plane is going to land at Transitown.
I'm sad for the victims but relieved at the same time. A bigger, faster plane might have taken out more than just one house and one person on the ground. That type of plane doesn't go as quick so when it stops, it stops. A bigger jet might have been much bigger issue.
The town safety guy is the younger brother of a guy I went to high school with. He used to do battle with my Mom in her role on the town planning board. We didn't really get along, but I applaud him today. He's keeping a cooler head than many of the television folk are. Did Don Postles really need to berate somebody at Kaleida into coming on? Really? Did Ch.2 need to send somebody out with a laptop and a skype camera to show us nothing? When there is nothing to say, perhaps shutting the fuck up might be a viable option. Local media might want to start drilling like the emergency crews do as they should be embarassed.
Heard from my out of town siblings this morning both of whom were trying to remember where Long Road was in proximity to the rents (both of whom were safely oblivious till much later).
Strange days...
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/12/09 09:10 - 35ºF - ID#47728
Inner Peace
If you can get going without pep pills,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
...Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!
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Words: 123
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: random
02/11/09 04:40 - ID#47715
They Call it "Hump Day" for a reason
Let's be careful out there.
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Words: 635
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: random
02/06/09 01:44 - 23ºF - ID#47660
Friday hilarity
That's comedy, have a good weekend, ya'all
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Words: 59
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
02/04/09 08:52 - 11ºF - ID#47644
One more Zoo picture for awhile
This is a cool gig to have a little extra access. Check it out.
Considering it was 5 degrees out when I took it, you can safely say she was just chillin'.
There I said it, and I don't regret it. Well, maybe a little.
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Words: 81
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: random
02/03/09 04:03 - 26ºF - ID#47622
Baby Giraffe Walk
All together, "awww"
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Words: 69
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: miscellany
02/03/09 02:08 - 27ºF - ID#47619
She's just not that into you.
I called and got a "have to go" response, which was fairly understandable. Not every employer is cool about that stuff, she might have some actual important thing that needed done. I felt bad because I caught her at a potentially bad time. So, after unnecessarily beating myself up, I wrote an apology for the intrusion.
It's gone unanswered. Left a message, gone unanswered. Got a feeling I should just leave it there. Did I screw that up before it even got off the ground? Or should I just shut up and be patient.
Stuff like that can color your whole day.
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Words: 164
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: random
01/31/09 03:36 - 15ºF - ID#47584
The dreaded 25.
1. I still dream about what life would have been like had my brothers been born without their disabilities.
2. I know a lot about a lot of things, just none of it is terrifically financially rewarding.
3. Despite being able to professionally fake sincerity, I am pretty socially inept.
4. I 've spent far too long worrying about what other people might be thinking. That only made me unhappy and it took way too long to get comfortable in my own skin.
5. I used to read way too much, now I worry that I'm not reading enough.
6. I liked "old man" bars long before I started becoming one.
7. I want to shave my beard off, but I'm afraid of what my chin might look like after 20 years (and that there is still just one there).
8. Been working since I was 15 and finally got a job that I like.
9. Bright eyes and a killer smile will make me stop in my tracks, although I sometimes wish I was twenty pounds lighter and 6 to 7 years younger.
10. I used to put stock in retail therapy, but the euphoria is quick to end and ultimately didn't make me happy in the first place.
11. I'm proud that I dealt with an illness and kicked it on my own. Not that there wasn't help available, but my inner control freak wanted to smack Bell's Palsy around on my terms.
12. MRIs made me realize that I'm a bit claustraphobic.
13. I know the difference between red and white wine glasses, but still prefer a well-poured good beer.
14. I listen to all kinds of music all but there is a regular cadre of people I regularly gravitate back to.
15. I write for a living so I know Number 14 ended grammatically incorrectly, so shaddup.
16. I am enticed and afraid of heights at the same time.
17. I want to see and experience more of everything instead of worrying about the petty shit that keeps me back.
18. I want everybody who gave my former spouse and I shit for the end of our marriage to fuck off already. She never deserved it and I might have, but not for that
19. I love motorcycles but I think my skills are best left to a Vespa instead of a Harley.
20. I still fantasize/dream.
21. I miss my Dad-in-law because he was such an unapologetic booster. He was one of those types where five minutes into your first conversation with him he'd be looking for "Ways to help you shine."
22. I'm too self conscious to dance very well.
23. I drink and I mellow. Most irish guys get more cantankerous. Not me, I just chill and enjoy the arguments among the other drinkers. Anything else is too much work.
24. I'm pretty proud of the paths my kids are on. They have the ability to make me nuts, but I think they are on the right road. I like to think I had something to do with that.
25. I make mistakes, lots of them, in glorious fashion, yet the world keeps turning.
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Words: 539
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
01/29/09 03:12 - 22ºF - ID#47563
How to turn the Media to Jelly
A nineteen day old baby giraffe named Melia charmed the socks of all three tv news organizations and our daily periodical. At a young age, she was walking within an hour of birth and was quite taken with the attention from the tv cameras.
It's a good day when you can tell your boss that you are helping the Giraffes meet the media with a straight face and be taken seriously.
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Words: 82
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: humor (i hope)
01/28/09 09:13 - 22ºF - ID#47539
Semi-Intelligent Design
A little girl asked her mother: 'How did the human race appear?'The mother answered, 'God made Adam and Eve;they had children; and so was all mankind made.'Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, 'Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.'The confused girl returned to her mother and said,'Mum, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?'The mother answered, 'Well, Dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family, and your father told you about his.'
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Words: 115
Location: Buffalo, NY
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