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Archives for September 2004
I need more fiber and more time off- Another list of stuff
It is Thursday morning and I am feeling spent. It has been a grueling year and a grueling week and I am tired of being grueled. I am mentally and emotionally fatigued, my head hurts and my body aches. Now if my truck broke down, my dog died and my wife left me I might actually have the makings of a great country song.
As has been written here numerous times it is the Jewish New Year and a time in which I always become more introspective about myself and where things are going. So without any rhyme or reason here are some thoughts and comments about life and the world around me
I had a disagreement with someone about the working world in which they essentially said that I should stop with the complaints and just suck it up. I can’t do it, you either set high standards and die trying to reach them or you lay down in the mud. I just don’t understand what is so hard to understand about that.
My children make me a better man. I am always conscious of what I do and whether I can look them in the eye. I may not always live up to the standard I want to set, but they make me try harder.
I love pizza, can’t get enough of it. It is one of my all-time favorite comfort foods.
This week I have done business with people in the following cities: Capetown, Chicago, San Mateo, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London.
If I had ten minutes with Donald Trump I might be arrested for holding him down while I tried to brush his hair.
I still hate working with spreadsheets that are created by people who don’t know what they are doing or how to use them.
Music played in my home this week includes Springsteen, Beethoven, The Wiggles, Enya, Metallica, Elvis, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Ofra Haza and a dozen other artists that I am just not giving PR to. In other words I am tired of typing.
I don’t like either candidate for president. Neither inspire me. Is there a “Viagra” like drug I can take for the election, right now it makes me feel limp.
If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning, I’d hammer in the evening, but mostly I’d consider hammering on the hood of the guy in the Mercedes that cut me off today.
Gene Hackman, Al Pacino and Tommy Lee Jones have all been in some really good movies, but they have some really bad ones to their credit too.
I don’t fear failure, but I do fear not being able to pay my bills.
Toilet paper is a necessity that you shouldn’t skimp on. I hate thin toilet paper. There are moments or should I say movements that require “careful attention” and the thin stuff doesn’t come close to getting it done.
Three places I’d like to be right now: The Desheh at camp, The Old City in Jerusalem, The top of Yosemite Falls.
Three places I don’t want to be: Baghdad, Sierra Leone and Mecca.
Ask me later today and all of my answers may change.
It doesn’t take much money to make me happy, is there anyone out there in dire need of giving away $10,000 dollars? What about $50?
Saturday afternoon I am going to read Torah again. I have been reading the same parsha since 1982. And every year just as I go to read whatever moisture that is left in my mouth dries up. It feels like I have been plowing the cotton fields with my tongue.
Two lines into it the saliva glands will start to work and I’ll sound better. Thankfully the guy with the great singing voice follows me and not the other way around. I know, I shouldn’t pay any attention to it, but if I ever want to start a singing career I need to do three things:
1) Develop rhythm and the ability to dance.
2) Learn how to sing.
3) Stop serving as the opening act at Karaoke bars. It may have worked for Milli Vanilli, but I am not them.
Ok, time to get back to work.
Are you neurotic about updating your blog?
Ok, confession time. I have become a little neurotic about this. The addictive nature of this is sucking me in and making me just a little crazy. Ok, I am a lot crazy and I can’t attribute to anything or anyone else, it is just me.
But really, part of me is a little fermished when I don’t update this thing a couple of times a day. Oh well, this should be the worst of my problems.
U.K. Hostage Pleads for Life on Videotape
“The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news – web sites) to intervene. “I think this is possibly my last chance,” he said. “I don’t want to die.”
It is heartbreaking, I feel so badly about this. But, I do not believe in negotiating with terrorists. If the coalition gave in it might save this man’s life, but it would jeopardize many others. And it just kills me to say it, but I just don’t believe that this would do anything but hurt more people.
It must be nightmarish to be the person(s) responsible for making decisions like this.
Powell says US will never negotiate with terrorists after hostage murders
“UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The United States will never negotiate with terrorists, US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news – web sites) said, flatly ruling out any policy change in the wake of the beheading of two US hostages in Iraq (news – web sites).
“We deeply regret the loss of these two men who went to help the Iraqi people and my heart goes out to their families when I consider the manner of their death and I extend deepest condolences to the families,” Powell said.
“But it is one thing we’ve learned over time, is that you can’t negotiate with these kinds of terrorists,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the annual session of the UN General Assembly.
“You can’t give in to them because all it does is incentivize them to do it again and, therefore, our policy will remain unchanged,” Powell said.”
Powell get’s it.
Tobacco- Who knew that it could protect you.
“Cashier foils pen-wielding robberA 62-year-old gas station cashier chased a would-be-robber out of the Stefko Boulevard station early Tuesday by chucking cartons of cigarettes at him, Bethlehem police said.
The robbery happened at about 3:47 a.m. Tuesday morning when the man entered the Texaco gas station, 1907 Stefko Boulevard, wearing a T-shirt over his head and brandishing a silver pen.
He told Lorraine Roth, the cashier, to “open the cash register … I don’t want to have to kill you,” Roth then threw the cartons until the man left.
Bethlehem police said they later discovered the same man had robbed a 7-Eleven at Club Avenue and Union Boulevard in Allentown.”
How dumb do you have to be to try and rob someone with a pen. Unless your name is James Bond and it is from “Q” I suspect that you might be in trouble.
If I would have been the station attendant I would have used cans of diet coke to chase the guy out, but that is just me.
And on a side note, how thankful was the cashier that she didn’t grab the Twinkies to throw at this guy.And yet on another side note, if I am ever in a pie shop I hope that someone tries to rob me with a pen. I can throw a cream pie with the best of them.