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I love this safety video for Air New Zealand…I could see Southwest doing something like this…but no way US Airways or any other stick in the ass airline. This chart surprises me, not the fact that support for same sex marriage is growing but the fact that it’s still so low in some places… ex. North Carolina. I guess there are still a lot of rural folks (and city folks by the way) that just don’t get it. I forget that Bill James exist. I guess i’ve been in New York too long.
We went on an awesome road trip last weekend seeing seven feet of snow, not sure why I didn’t really take a lot of pictures, guessing I was more interested in just looking. Fell on my ass Monday…DAMN THAT ICE!!!…and my butt has been sore for a week and I think I may have another skin cancer on my hand. Hopefully whatever this thing is the doc can just zap that thing off. And can anybody tell me why hater Roy Ashburn was never exposed as being gay if everybody, including Chris Cabaldon, supposedly knew? I rarely talk about work here, and actually, it seems I rarely talk about anything here anymore. Sometime around Christmas I noticed that one of the girls that works in the cash office hardly had a word for me. I figured that she was just having a bad day, we all have those right? And we just want to be left alone. The next time, she was my friend so I asked her if everything was OK and she looked up and said, “yea” and looked back down. For a couple of days, it was the same thing. I then noticed that the other girl in the cash office who is more of a work acquaintance than a friend was giving me the same silent treatment. For about two weeks I was literally given the silent treatment by these two while also not making eye contact with me. I still had no idea what was going on with them. I would walk by them and stare at them (and grin) and they would not even look up. Everyone I asked didn’t know what was going on. I finally sat right beside them in the break room and looked the first girl in the eye and asked why she was mad at me. She said she wasn’t mad at me and walked out of the room. I then looked at the other girl and asked why she was mad at me. She said she wasn’t mad at me and walked away. The second chick is a bitch and I really don’t care but I thought the other was my friend and it kind of hurt my feelings for a while. A couple of days later, I walked up to my friend and asked if we were done. She shrugged her shoulders in an I dunno way. I said, “Fine, we’re done then because I have no idea what I did” and walked away. That night, I unfriended her on facebook. The other bitch had already done the same to me. It was after that that people started telling me that they’re both fucking bitches and I shouldn’t worry about it. Even their friends tell me that…WTF? Anyway, it’s been a couple of weeks since that and I’ve finally let it go. When I walk by them, I look at them and they don’t look up. They don’t talk to me, I don’t talk to them but I don’t feel uncomfortable around them and I still don’t know why their mad. Never lost a friend like that, guess she really wasn’t my friend anyways. One day they’ll need me and I’ll be able to ignore THEM. I’m a 14 year old girl.
New York has unveiled our new license plates. New Yorkers will have the honor of paying $25 in addition to regular registration for being forced to get new ugly tags because the old ones are not reflective enough even though the police have no problem with them. New York has drawn a blank on Money magazine’s annual list of America’s best places to live. Duh… Sitting here, I wanted to say something more poignant. It happens to be, one month to the day on which I broke my leg. It was God awful, the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. But today, after dealing with it for so long, it’s so much better. I can move around without having a whole lot of pain. I can drive or ride. I can maneuver on the crutches pretty well but they do wear me out after a while and going up the stairs still requires a rest at the top, just like I’m 80. (Getting old must suck) …. But I’m going back to work Monday and although I’m VERY limited on what I can do, I AM EAGAR so I hope all goes well. Hopefully in two more weeks the doctor will start letting me put some weight on my leg and start the progression to me walking again. I also can’t wait to take a real shower, the kind where you stand in the shower and let the water flow over you. It sounds so sweet. I wanna work in the yard, I wanna plant stuff, I wanna clean all the winter’s debris. I wanna walk downtown, I even wanna walk through a Wal-Mart without wanting to sit down. I wanna cook dinner and carry a real plate, I wanna take that dumb ass dog for a walk. I wanna not feel sorry for myself… Did I mention I actually fell pretty good?… Yesterday, I went outside to throw a piece of bread that the squirrels left within six inches of Casey and she was having a fit over it. She was six inches from the bread and I think you could have heard her in Albany. I thought I tested the ground but the crutch went down 8 inches and when I pulled it out, the little suction cup thingy stayed down there. It’s kind of funny now but while digging it out with my hand in the COLD mud, it wasn’t. I actually finished converting all my entries to wordpress yesterday. It only took since November. This is number 1204, I thought there’d be more. Feeling sorry for myself, sitting here looking up at my leg, I thought I’d sit here and listen to this song over and over to make myself feel even worse. By God, I started clicking on links and I found this….. This it the opening from the Toronto show we went to in December. It was one of the times of my life. And this is the way she does Nutbush…It makes the hair on the back of my neck stand on end… I have been watching way too much TV since I’ve been hurt, but today, after this, I pulled out the iPod and listened to music. I also realized, for the first time this year, it’s almost 60 outside. I sat out there (granted I was sitting on the tailgate of the truck because I couldn’t get a chair out) playing with Casey and feeling great. Music also makes the physical therapy so much better. This is week four, next week, back to work, be it light duty, I’m happy about that. I went by my job yesterday to visit, who’d thought I’d actually miss that place. Duncan has been so good to me during this process. He’s done what ever I needed. Tomorrow was actually supposed to be the Fleetwood Mac concert I got him for Christmas. It was cancelled, which was probably a good thing because I don’t think I could have gone. I still owe him a Christmas present. I still owe him a lot more than that.
Westboro Baptist Church descended upon Albany this morning across from Albany High School. School was delayed for two hours to avert any problems. To be so brainwashed, but to be so brainwashed while still having so much interaction with the outside world is beyond me. I understand someone drops them off in a white van, they protest, and someone picks them up in a white van and takes them to their next stop. But to be surrounded buy hundreds of protesters everywhere you go, and I’m sure, only seldom, someone joins their side, how can you not question anything you’re saying? I question myself frequently. I question others more frequently. Any of my superiors will tell you I will argue my point unless I feel it is just useless or they change my mind about it. I do listen to other’s point of view. Besides, I believe these protest do nothing but make the opposition stronger. After downtown, it was off to SUNY-Albany and then they plan to spend the rest of the day in Plattsburgh protesting their gay mayor, the high school’s gay/straight alliance, and Plattsburgh State’s production of “The Laramie Project”. A busy day. On positive note, freight may be flowing through Schenectady in two directions at once soon. There are double tracks all the way through the state except between Schenectady and Albany where freight traffic (and passenger traffic to a lesser extent) backs up all the time. For years, the state has been trying to finance this very expensive project and the stimulus package may mean it finally gets done. Not only will it help move the abundance of train traffic that comes through the city but it will mean a lot of new infrastructure. The train trestles that go through downtown are dated anywhere between 1901 and 1908. Long before the old Erie Canal was filled in, the tracks were raised for pedestrian safety. These same bridges that we sit under while waiting for traffic lights that seem to “leak” on us and seriously creep me out. Lastly, I’ve been using a reader for the last couple of months and while it’s faster, I think you lose a lot of the personality that goes with the reading. A lot of times, the pictures are not there as well as the videos and it’s more like reading a document rather than a web page. I may use it for some of the less frequently updated blogs and news but for the most part, I’m gonna move back to just looking at the site. And we’re looking at 50 degrees this weekend! With continued population erosion, above-average unemployment and slow economic growth, Buffalo has been included on a list of “America’s Fastest-Dying Cities” on forbes.com. Buffalo is the only city in New York state to make the publication’s list. The editors take into account a population loss of nearly 42,000 residents since 2000, an unemployment rate of 5.7 percent compared to 4.3 percent nationally and annualized gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 1.9 percent. Forbes said: “Buffalo has long been synonymous with city-in-decline. In the early 1900s, Buffalo was one of America’s 10 largest cities, a burgeoning industrial center. It’s been on decline ever since, despite a location that takes advantage of trade with Canada.” There are four Ohio metropolitan areas on the list — Dayton, Cleveland, Canton and Youngstown. Other cities include Detroit and Flint, MI; Scranton, PA.; Springfield, MA; and Charleston, WV. Some of them are obvious including Youngstown, OH which I spent a lot of time in during the 1990′s. It makes Schenectady look like Beverly Hills. Springfield, MA is kind of surprising. Our trips to Springfield made me think it was one of the northeast’s exceptions. I suppose we just didn’t hit the right parts of the city. I have a friend. Her boyfriend treats her like shit. Controlling and verbally abusive. She can’t even talk to a guy on the phone. She can’t go out with her friends by herself. She can make no financial decisions herself. She tells us these god awful stories about him trying to control her… He needs his ass kicked… She loves him… This one goes out to Duncan. Thanks for everything. I love you… Now let’s go kick his ass tonight.
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The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday filed court papers in support of US Senator Larry Craig’s fight to have his conviction for soliciting sex in an airport toilet overturned. The ACLU brief cited a Minnesota Supreme Court ruling that people having sex in a closed toilet cubicle in a public toilet have an “expectation of privacy” and if the Senator was attempting to engage an undercover police officer for sex he was not acting illegally… The Smurfs are 50 this year. I had no idea that they actually pre-dated their American cartoon. I loved The Smurfs when I was a kid, yes granted a big old kid. Handy was my favorite followed by Greedy Smurf and Vanity Smurf. Being a Smurf would be great. All those guy Smurfs and only one girl Smurf. Yes we know Smurfette was sluty but not even she would be able to take care of a whole village of horny male Smurfs…and that’s where I would come in. And why Family Circus, why Family Circus do you exist? Why?!! |
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